Postmodern Prose and Fairy-Tale Resurrection – Mythical Morphologies in Romanian and European Fairy Tales
Postmodern Prose and Fairy-Tale Resurrection – Mythical Morphologies in Romanian and European Fairy Tales
Author(s): Simona Gruian Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: fairy-tale; de-sacralization; postmodern hero; demythisation
Summary/Abstract: This paper is focussed on revaling a comparative study on various typologies of characters from Romanian and European fairy-tales. We intend to bring into the foreground the pantheon of mythical creatures of different ancient cultures that were considered the basis in character construction in popular fairy-tales. Another concern of this paper is to compare popular cultural products belonging to the same literary species, as well as a comparative analysis between modern and postmodern cultural products, revealing mythical functions in the postmodern imaginary and traditional perspectives on myths. The mythical ressurection phenomenon is brought into discussion together with re-sacralization and de-sacralization.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology & Cultural Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 109-116
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English