A Study of Fairy Tales Part 38

a. The tale of the witch 31

b. The tale of the dragon 31

c. Giant tales 31

d. Some tales of transformation 32

e. The tale of strange animal relations and strange creatures 33

f. Unhappy tales 34

g. The tale of capture 34

h. The very long tale 35

i. The complicated or the insincere tale 36

II. The fairy tale as literature 37

1. The fairy tale must be a true cla.s.sic 38

2. The fairy tale must have mind and soul 39

3. The fairy tale must have the distinguis.h.i.+ng marks of literature 40

a. A power to appeal to the emotions 41

1) Literary emotion is not personal 41

2) Literary emotion must have justness 41

3) Literary emotion must have vividness 41

4) Literary emotion must have steadiness 41

5) Literary emotion must have variety 41

6) Literary emotion must have moral quality 41

7) Application of the test of emotion to the Fairy tales 41

8) The value of fairy tales in the development of emotion 44

b. A power to appeal to the imagination 45

1) Appeal to the creative imagination 45

2) Appeal to the a.s.sociative imagination 46

a) Appeal to fancy 46

3) Appeal to the penetrative imagination 47

4) Appeal to the contemplative imagination 47

a) Philosophy in the fairy tales 48

b) Proverbs in the fairy tales 50

c) Relation of the contemplative imagination to science 52

c. A basis of truth, or appeal to the intellect 53

1) The truth must be idealistic 53

a) It may be realistic 53

b) It may be romantic 53

2) Value of the appeal of literature to the intellect 53

d. A form more or less perfect 54

1) The elements of form: words, sentences, paragraphs, and wholes 58

a) Words, the medium of language must have two powers 54

(1) Denotation, to name what they mean 54

(2) Connotation, to suggest what they imply 54

b) Suggestive power of words ill.u.s.trated 55

2) General qualities characteristic of perfect form 57

a) Precision or clearness 57

(1) Precision demands that words have denotation 57

(2) Precision appeals to the intellect 57

b) Energy or force 57

(1) Energy demands that words have connotation 58

(2) Energy appeals to the emotions and holds the attention 58

c) Delicacy or emotional harmony 58