The Development of the Trickster in Children's Narrative

Abrams, David M.; Sutton‐Smith, Brian

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“…Labov (1972: 367) has further distinguished between anecdotes that report events personally experienced and 'narratives of vicarious experience' which recount the doings of others. Pitcher & Prelinger (1963), Ames (1966) and Abrams & Sutton-Smith (1977) all note that their subjects frequently narrated stories that had been told or read to them previously. While many of these stories feature fantasy characters, in others children have created fictions by placing real characters (e.g.…”

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“…mother, father, teacher) in imaginary situations (Ames 1966). Pitcher & Prelinger (1963), Ames (1966) and Abrams & Sutton-Smith (1977) all note that their subjects frequently narrated stories that had been told or read to them previously. Kemper (1984) found that children borrow characters for their stories from cartoons, television shows and movies.…”

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The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children

Preece

1987

J. Child Lang.

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0305000900012976How to cite this article: Alison Preece (1987). The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children. ABSTRACTThe productive narrative competence of three young children as revealed in their spontaneously occurring conversations recorded over an 18-month period during their kindergarten and grade one years was investigated. Almost 90 hours of the children's conversations, produced as they were being driven to and from school, were audiotaped and analysed in order to determine whether children between the ages of five and seven include narrative accounts in their conversations with each other and, if so, the nature of the narrative language produced. The subjects were found routinely and regularly to produce a striking variety of narrative forms; 14 different narrative types were distinguished and defined, six of which have not previously been reported in the literature on children's narratives. Seventy per cent of the recorded narratives took anecdotal form; original fantasy narratives occurred only rarely. A significant proportion of the narratives were collaboratively created.

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Section: Narrative Form Categoriesmentioning

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Section: Narrative Form Categoriesmentioning

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The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children

Preece

1987

J. Child Lang.

139

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“…Quoi qu'il en soit, les récits du type « décepteur » inventés par les enfants « give general support to the view that these tales are instruments in children's socialization. But in addition, the nonsense and trickery of these tales is also support for a view of their role as both heightening children's flexibility about social roles, and increasing their explorations of novel responses 21 . » Initiation culturelle, initiation sémantique : il s'agit pour l'enfant de répertorier les ressources d'une tradition lui permettant de repérer les stratégies acceptables, de se faire la main à leur usage imaginaire, d'être conscrit pour des exercices de manoeuvre, en somme, d'apprendre le maniement des armes conceptuelles que sa culture met à la disposition des hommes et des femmes pour leur permettre, apaisés (pour un temps au moins) après la victoire, de se marier.…”

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Maranda¹

2005

Classiques Des Sciences Sociales.

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“…Abrams and Sutton-Smith (1977). for instance, in their discussion of the popularity of various cartoon episodes among American children, designate Bugs Bunny as a trickster because he possesses these qualities.…”

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Lévi‐Strauss, Freud, and the trickster: a new perspective upon an old problem

Carroll

1981

American Ethnologist

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Whatever you may think of Claude LBvi-Strauss, it is difficult to deny that his work has completely revitalized the study of myth. We are now at the point where no one who seriously claims to investigate myth can ignore what he has written. Many of those who have read LBvi-Strauss have adopted wholeheartedly the structuralist program, and have subsequently plunged into various myths looking for oppositions, mediators, transformations, and the like. Many others have read LBvi-Strauss and found him to be incomprehensible. Most of these simply let the matter rest, presumably because they feel that, although he may be incomprehensible to them, he must be saying something important. (Why else would everybody be making such a fuss over his work?) A few, however, have not been so shy, as when Andreski (1974:86, 90, 141, 144) excoriates LBvi-Strauss for his "stylistic prototechnics," his "neescholastic mumbejumbo," his "crazy formulae," and generally characterizes LBvi-Strauss's work as "poetry masquerading as science."Finally, there are those who have read LBvi-Strauss and found something to criticize. In fact, criticism of structuralism in general and of LBvi-Strauss in particular has become something of a genre in social science. One source (Lapointe and Lapointe 1977), for instance, which is updated only to June 1975, lists over 1200 critical commentaries on LBviCentral to Levi-Strauss's well-known analysis of the trickster figure in North American mythology is an association between the trickster and the animal category "carrion-eater." A review of the major tricksters in North America indicates that this association is present in one case (Raven), uncertain in the second [Coyote], and demonstrably absent in the case of other major trickster figures [such as the Algonquian Nanabush) who-if anything-are associated with the category "hare." Merging some of the general ideas on myths developed by such structuralists as Levi-Strauss and leach with some of the general ideas on myth developed b y Freud, this article develops a new analysis of the trickster myths. l suggest that the underlying logic of these myths is concerned with resolving a universal dilemma: although both "uncontrolled sexuality" and "culture" are desired qualities, the first would lead to the destruction of the second. This perspective allows us to account for the trickster's two most notable characteristics: he is simultaneously portrayed as a selfish buffoon and as the culture-hero who makes human society possible, and he is usually associated with one of three animal categories [coyote, raven, or hare). [myth, LBvi-Strauss, structuralism, Freud, trickster, theory L6vl-Strau88, Freud, and the trlckster 301 Straws's structuralism, most of which are in English or French and most of which were published since 1965. Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of such critical commentaries are metatheoretical discussions concerned either with the philosophical underpinnings of structuralism, with the logical rigor and the clarity of Levi-Straws's argument...

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The Development of the Trickster in Children's Narrative

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The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children

The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children

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