Class Notes 9/5

*Children's Literature is a portal to mythology and realism or naturalism

*Frye - "all literature is displaced myth"

*The Juniper Tree
- “There are not auditors or speakers, only participants in the story.” – MS
- Story morphs in the switch from an oral culture to a print culture

*Mnemosyne = mother of the muses = memory
- http://www.goddessgift.com/Goddess-myths/g-mnemosyne.htm

*Children are creatures of repetition, simplicity

*Things always happen 3 times in fairy tales
- the dad is always the king and the daughter, a princess

*There is a tension between the stories that are written for children and their (sometimes) burglarized versions that become stories that teach a lesson, moral stories