A Never Ending Story? Permutations of “Snow White and Rose Red” Narrative and Its Research across Time and Space Cover Image

A Never Ending Story? Permutations of “Snow White and Rose Red” Narrative and Its Research across Time and Space
A Never Ending Story? Permutations of “Snow White and Rose Red” Narrative and Its Research across Time and Space

Author(s): Marijana Hameršak
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: fairy tales; 19th century Croatian children’’s literature; folk narrative research; Snow White and Rose Red; Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Mijat Stojanović

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the presumptions, interdependences and paradoxes of representations of folktales in 19th century literary collections (Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Mijat Stojanović Narodne pripoviedke) and contemporary scholarly works. The focus is on paratextual and epitextual differences as markers of ideological and epistemological background of Wilhelm Grimm’’s ““Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot”” and its verbatim Croatian translation ““Bielka i Rumenka”” by Mijat Stojanović. In the conclusion, representation (definition and concordance) of Grimm’’s text and its verbatim translation in the latest edition of The Types of International Folktales is discussed regarding the blurring borders between the oral and written, text and research in folk narrative research.

  • Issue Year: 48/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-160
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English