Once Upon a Time: The Author Is Dead! Long Live the All Mighty Quill!
Once Upon a Time: The Author Is Dead! Long Live the All Mighty Quill!
Author(s): Lidia-Mihaela Necula, Oana-Celia GheorghiuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință
Keywords: death of the author; literary emancipation; scriptor; postmodernism; TV series; fairy-tale;
Summary/Abstract: Perchance the world’s greatest advertisement of fairy-tales, Once Upon a Time, the fantasy drama television series featured on Netflix, goes past its entertaining marketing strategies and brings to the fore one of the longest enduring and most polemical poststructuralist theories, i.e. the death of the author and the literary emancipation of characters. The aim of the current paper is to prove, above anything else, that the primary object of Once Upon a Time, the TV series can be construed as one of telling the story of the characters’ literary emancipation and the inherent death of the author.
Journal: Cultural Intertexts
- Issue Year: 10/2020
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 122-133
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English