Anti-tales :: the uses of disenchantment /

The anti-(fairy) tale has long existed in the shadow of the traditional fairy tale as its flipside or evil twin. According to André Jolles in Einfache Formen (1930), such Antimärchen are contemporaneous Other some the earliest known oral variants of familiar tales. While fairy tales are generally c...

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Weitere Verfasser: McAra, Catriona, Calvin, David
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
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Zusammenfassung:The anti-(fairy) tale has long existed in the shadow of the traditional fairy tale as its flipside or evil twin. According to André Jolles in Einfache Formen (1930), such Antimärchen are contemporaneous Other some the earliest known oral variants of familiar tales. While fairy tales are generally characterised by a "spirit of optimism" (Tolkien) the anti-tale offers us no such assurances; for every "happily ever after," there is a dissenting "they all died horribly." The anti-tale is, however ...
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Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443830553
1443830550
1283142996
9781283142991

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