Fairy Tales in the Postmodern World

No Tales for Children

by Daniela Carpi

Book cover: Fairy Tales in the Postmodern World

Extent: 200 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Anglistische Forschungen

Series volume number: 455

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(April 2016)

ISBN: 9783825366049

Price: $50.00

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In what way can we look today at the fairy tale and its tradition? The fairy tale, born as an oral process based upon formulaic repetitions, becomes in contemporary writers a typically literary process founded upon the play with tradition and the recovering of formulas in an experimental sense. The user of a fairy tale makes personal use of it, resorting to manipulations and re-writings helpful for his particular needs. The expansion of the fairy tale shows its endless literary evolution thanks to the monumentalisation of the written word. The classic fairy tale needs to die in order to be reborn as literary play. In fact the writing of the tale of wonder absorbs its oral antecedents and reconstitutes original human consciousness.

  • By (author) Daniela Carpi