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This paper examines major literary aesthetics in Dagara folktales, using collection, analysis, and interpretation of selected tales gathered through fieldwork. The study focuses on structure and language, arguing from Structuralist Theory grounded in Gerard Genette’s Narrative Discourse, including categories of time, mood, and voice. 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Winneba, Central Region, Ghana, West Africa  \n[E-mail: mkyiileyang@gmail.com](E-mail: mkyiileyang@gmail.com)  \nDoi:10 .7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.6p.221  \nURL: [http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.6p.221](http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.6p.221)  \nReceived: 02/10/2016  \nAccepted: 17/11/2016  \nThe research is financed by authorities of the University of Education, Winneba through my monthly salary and the Book and Research Allowances.  \nAbstract  \nDagara folktales, like other African folktales, are embedded with various literary aesthetic features related to structure, language and performance. This paper examines major literary aesthetics found in Dagara folktales. The methodology used is based on the collection, analysis and interpretation of selected Dagara folktales gathered through fieldwork. The focus of the paper is on the structure and the language of Dagara folktales. The argument of this paper is grounded on the Structuralist Theory as seen in Gerard Genette’s Narrative Discourse which offers the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette proposes various categories of narrative which cover Time, Mood and Voice. Genette’s narrative structure suggests that the various categories and subcategories emphasise that the narrative is a complex structure in which the narratee is largely present in the various strata of the structure. Genette is concerned with the macro-text of the recit, that is, the ordering of events in the narrative. The study revealed that there are similarities and differences in the structure and the language of Dagara folktales in relation to other African folktales.  \nKeywords: Dagara People, Folktale, Literary Aesthetics, Performance, Structuralist Theory  \n1. Introduction  \nThis introduction serves as background knowledge on the aesthetics approach in literature and the narration of folktales. Folk Culture is the type of culture that deals with the customary beliefs, social forms and material constructions of specific folk groups. Therefore, folk culture encompasses closely associated elements such as speech patterns, social actions and activities, beliefs, behaviours, ideology and artifacts specific to the group. Folk culture was considered something which existed only within small, isolated, homogeneous groups whose members were generally illiterate and lived in some form of pre-urban society. Earlier studies conducted by scholars focused on groups considered as representatives of peasants or ethnic minorities. (Allison, 1997, pp. 316-317; Ed. Thomas A. Green) . The culture of the Dagara of Nandom equally has customary beliefs and some of these can be identified in their folktales and other forms of oral literature.  \nThe art of narrative is a highly aesthetic enterprise. There are certain basic aesthetic elements which interact in welldeveloped stories. Such elements include the narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and ends, or exposition-development-climax-denouement, with important inciting incidents, normally constructed into coherent plotlines. There is also a strong focus on temporality that includes retention of the past, attention to present action and future anticipation, a reasonable focus on characters and characterisation which is arguably the most important single component of the novel. The sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers are all significant to narrative performance.  \nFolktales are part and parcel of folk culture. In Fischer ’s (1963, p. 236) comprehensive article on the sociopsychologic","cbCaiccFYXPZ1N5f","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiccFYXPZ1N5f","pdf",331419,16,"English","# Introduction\n## Folk culture and folktales\n## Narrative aesthetics and performance\n# Literary aesthetics and theoretical framework\n## Structuralist Theory and Genette’s Narrative Discourse\n# Findings and comparison\n## Similarities and differences in structure and language","[{\"question\":\"What literary elements does the paper focus on in Dagara folktales?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on literary aesthetics related to the structure and the language of Dagara folktales, and considers how these relate to narrative performance.\"},{\"question\":\"What methodology is used to study the folktales?\",\"answer\":\"The research is based on collecting selected Dagara folktales through fieldwork, followed by analysis and interpretation of the gathered texts.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper use Structuralist Theory in its argument?\",\"answer\":\"The argument is grounded in Structuralist Theory through Gerard Genette’s Narrative Discourse, especially narrative categories such as time, mood, and voice.\"}]","Literary Aesthetics in the Narration of Dagara Folktales | PDF",1792067434,25]