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Deborah Philips
The “gallery of scenes and characters” of the carnival have been filtered through
the popular press, toy theatres and book illustration to become the metonymic icons
of the carnival site. The jungle, the desert, the Wild West, the Far East and fairyland
are all mapped onto the fantasylands of the theme park. The tales that are told in
the carnival site have, however, no discernible origins, they are founded in popular
tradition, but can be worked and reworked for different contexts. They have their
roots in an oral culture; magic, fairy tale and the ghost story are founded in gossip
and local folk tales. They therefore can have no single version and can have no
owner, despite the efforts of Folk historians, their beginnings are lost in the mists
of time. The tales that circulate in carnival sites are all, in the words of Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1982, p. 1163), “twice told tales”.
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Cadernos de Estudos Avançados em Design - design e humanismo - 2013 - p. 89-104