Read the excerpt from "how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale."
what compelled the grimms to concentrate on old german epics, tales, and literature was a belief that the most natural and pure forms of culture—those which held the community together—were linguistic and based in history. according to them, modern literature, even though it might be remarkably rich, was artificial and thus could not express the genuine essence of volk culture that emanated naturally from experience and bound the people together. therefore, all their efforts went toward uncovering stories from the past. which statement  best  describes the way the author unfolds ideas in this paragraph?
 
a. the author starts with the main idea and gives evidence to support it.
b. the author gives supporting details first and concludes with the main idea.
c. the author gives a supporting detail and reveals the main idea, followed by a detail.
d. the author starts with the main idea and then restates it in several different ways.

c.to compare several aspects of the tragedy to other worldwide tragedies

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the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following forpurely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundredyears after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabicimprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual historyacknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation ofboth the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. thevast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has beenintegrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-calledbaghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages arepreceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in itsturn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating fromindian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culturehold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisinglyfew details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actualposition within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss linksbetween the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveyingthese links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabiannights in modern iran

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