Fairy-Tale Collisions, or the Explosion of a Genre

Author(s):  
Jack Zipes

Two major tendencies in fairy-tale re-creations and collisions have been observed in the past decades. The first tendency is called remaking and re-creating classic tales. The second tendency is referred to as conflicted mosaics, consists of paintings, sculptures, and photographs that draw on an assortment of fairy-tale fragments to evoke a sense of wonder, if not bafflement. This chapter explores the significance of the two tendencies in fairy-tale collisions with a focus on the recent 2012 exhibit Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. It also comments on the works of many other talented artists who have been experimenting with the fairy tale along the same lines.

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Immanuel Wallerstein

African studies has gone through three well-known phases as a field of study. Up until 1950 or thereabouts, those studying Africa — they were not yet called Africanists — tended to concentrate almost exclusively on the capturing (or recapturing) of a description of Africa eternal: Launcelot the ethnographer in search of a holy grail of the past that was written in the present tense and was undefiled by contact and uncorrupted by civilization. What was once a myth is now a fairy tale and it would be silly to waste time tellling each other the obvious truth that fairy tales are modes of the social control and the education of children.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
I.V. Vachkov ◽  
M.A. Odintsova ◽  
O.A. Tristan

The article presents the results of the study of the specifics of spiritual crisis experience and attitudes to Self in persons with spinal injury (N=65) and conventionally healthy respondents (N=63). The characteristics of spiritual crisis most typical of people with spinal injury were: dissatisfaction and loneliness attributed to the past, present, and future; and suffering attributed to the past. The categories of dissatisfaction, loneliness, and suffering were heterogeneous, as reflected in texts produced by people with spinal injuries and healthy people of different sex and age. Groups distinguished by time elapsed since injury did not differ on quantitative signs of spiritual crises but differed qualitatively in their experiences of dissatisfaction, loneliness, and suffering. People who had lived with the injury longer often experienced uselessness, and a lack of contacts, attention, and support; they were disposed to self-flagellation and guilt. Their attitude to Self reflected in the texts of fairy tales. Healthy controls wrote simple fairy tales describing the interaction of the Real Self and Ideal Self. By contrast, people with spinal injuries focused their stories on emotional experiences of their attitude to Self (complicated fairy tales) or finding meaning, accepting oneself and life in all its fullness and variety (complex fairy tale). Counseling people with a spinal injury, one should take into account both gender and age of the injured person and the potential of the fairy tale itself, which becomes a resource in the experiencing of spiritual crisis and in changing attitudes to Self.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Bayu Dwi Nurwicaksono

Abstrak Kearifan lokal tentang insiden lumpur Lapindo adalah cerita rakyat tentang kejadian di masa lalu yang dapat digunakan sebagai pelajaran pada masa kini dan masa depan, tentang dongeng Candi Tawangalun dan dongeng Emas Ketimun. Terlepas apakah itu sebuah dongeng yang pernah terjadi secara empiris atau hanya realitas-fiksi, kehadirannya dapat digunakan sebagai pijakan untuk memahami peristiwa (bencana) dari perspektif budaya. Wawasan Geo-Budaya dan Geo-Mitologi dalam cerita rakyat Lapindo bisa menjadi alternatif bahan pembelajaran kontekstual berbasis kearifan lokal dalam pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia untuk penutur asing karena kontekstualitas dan substansi nilai-nilai yang terkandung di dalamnya sangat menarik. Praktek pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia untuk penutur asing di Australia diketahui bahwa cerita tradisi lisan tapi cerita hanya sebagai pelengkap tradisi lisan sama pentingnya dengan pengetahuan tentang tata bahasa, bahkan dengan pengenalan tradisi lisan cerita, pembelajar BIPA akan mengetahui tentang budaya Indonesia. Kata-kata kunci: cerita rakyat, Geo-Culture, Geo-Mythology, kearifan lokal, BIPA Abstract Local wisdom about Lapindo mudflow incident is the folklore about the events in the past that can be used as a lesson on the present and future, that fairy tales Tawangalun Temple and fairy tale Golden Cucumber. Regardless whether it's a fairy tale ever happened empirically or just reality-fiction, its presence can be used as a foothold for understanding the events (disasters) from the perspective of the present culture. Insights Geo-Culture and Geo-Mythology in Lapindo folklore can be an alternative contextual teaching materials based on local wisdom in learning Indonesian for foreign speakers because contextuality and substance of the values contained in it very interesting. Practice learning Indonesian for foreign speakers in Australia is known that oral tradition story but the story only as a complement to the oral tradition is just as important as knowledge of grammar, even with the introduction of the oral tradition of story, BIPA learners will know the culture of Indonesia.Keywords: folklore, Geo-Culture, Geo-Mythology, local wisdom, BIPA


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Fransiska Jaiman Madu ◽  
Mariana Jediut ◽  
Maria Rahayu Anwar

MELESTARIKAN KEARIFAN LOKAL DAERAH MANGGARAI MELALUI KEGIATAN MENDONGENG PADA ANAK SEKAMI USIA SD DI PAROKI SANTU NIKOLAUS KELURAHAN GOLO DUKAL Abstract: Storytelling is a form of oral tradition as a means of communication and recording the events of life or human civilization of the past. Fairy tales are one of the places to preserve local wisdom. As for the fairy tale here is the fairy tale of the Manggarai area. Manggarai fairy tales were chosen with the aim of introducing various local wisdoms contained in these tales. this activity aims to; 1) introducing various local wisdoms in the Manggarai area to children of primary school age; 2) growing love for various local wisdoms in the Manggarai area; 3) grow and develop children's mental and ability to speak in frontother friends.in its implementation, this activity goes through several stages namely; 1) preparation stage which includes coordination of the service team, contacting partners, determining the schedule of activities, and procuring Manggarai folklore books; 2) the stage of implementation of activities which includes mentoring and training fordevelop the ability of children SEKAMI in knowing tales and storytelling.this activity aims to improve the ability of children SEKAMI in knowing more stories and good ways of storytelling; 3) the final stage includes storytelling and evaluation activities related to the effectiveness of service activities. this activity went well and the objectives of the activity were achieved.  


1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Immanuel Wallerstein

African studies has gone through three well-known phases as a field of study. Up until 1950 or thereabouts, those studying Africa — they were not yet called Africanists — tended to concentrate almost exclusively on the capturing (or recapturing) of a description of Africa eternal: Launcelot the ethnographer in search of a holy grail of the past that was written in the present tense and was undefiled by contact and uncorrupted by civilization. What was once a myth is now a fairy tale and it would be silly to waste time tellling each other the obvious truth that fairy tales are modes of the social control and the education of children.


Author(s):  
Elena Poleva ◽  
Oksana Velichko

Введение. Повышенная интертекстуальность романов современного писателя-модерниста Лены Элтанг многократно подмечалась критиками и исследователями. Обращение к интертексту (как к литературным произведениям, так к мифам и фольклору) повышает сематическую плотность повествования, помогает Элтанг раскрыть специфику сознания персонажей, осознающих себя параллельно существующими в социальной реальности и в культуре/текстах. Цель – выявить семантику и функции сказочного интертекста в модернистском романе Лены Элтанг «Каменные клены». Материал и методы. Применен интертекстуальный и мотивный анализ с опорой на работы И. Смирнова, М. Гаспарова, Б. Гаспарова, И. Паперно. Также теоретической базой являются труды фольклористов и психологов, посвященные изучению мотивной структуры фольклорных сказок о девушке-сироте, сюжета инициации (Е. Н. Елеонская, О. М. Фрейденберг, Р. Ефимкина и др.). Материал исследования – роман Лены Элтанг «Каменные клены» (сюжетная линия центральной героини Саши Сонли). Результаты и обсуждение. Анализ романа позволил установить соответствие сюжетной логики романа мотивной структуре сказки, иллюстрирующей этапы инициации. Но, во-первых, в отличие от не знающей психологизма и рефлексивного героя сказки, роман Элтанг представляет собой прозу «потока сознания», ориентированную на раскрытие внутреннего мира человека. Во-вторых, сложная, по сравнению со сказкой, субъектная организация романного текста позволила Элтанг в сюжетных линиях разных героев выстроить аллюзии на сказки разных подтипов (о женской и мужской инициации, заколдованном царстве). Несмотря на индивидуальные усилия Саши Сонли не иметь сходства с падчерицей из сказки, ее судьба выстраивается в соответствии с фольклорным инвариантом сюжета о девушке-сироте (в чем проявляется авторская, надперсонажная воля): смерть матери, утрата дочерью защиты отца; противостояние падчерицы мачехе; соперничество сводных сестер; победа падчерицы благодаря волшебному средству (материнскому оберегу), который способствует и поиску жениха. Функции материнского оберега в романе выполняет Травник – «тайная тетрадка», соединяющая дневник и свод рецептов народной медицины. Он воспринимается Сашей как канал связи с умершей матерью, играет ключевую роль в поиске суженого. В духе модернизма, опирающегося в равной степени и на достижения психоанализа, и на культурные архаичные модели, сюжет инициации героев в романе фабульно выстраивается в соответствии с фольклорной сказкой, но этой внешнесобытийной канве сопутствует внутренний сюжет психологически сложного проживания героями запоздалого взросления, расставания с чувствами вины перед родителями и обиды на них, расставания с прошлым ради будущего. Заключение. Посредством сказочного интертекста Элтанг встраивает индивидуальную жизнь героев в хронотоп большой культуры. Частная жизнь героев ценна уникальностью переживаний, но событийно она повторяет вечные сюжеты.Introduction. The importance of the poetics of intertextuality in the novels of the modernist writer Lena Eltang has been repeatedly emphasized by critics and researchers. The appeal to the intertext increases the semantic density of the narrative, serves to convey the specifics of the consciousness of Eltang characters that exist in parallel in the realities of social relations and culture/texts. Material and methods. Intertextual and motivational analysis based on the works of I. Smirnov, M. Gasparov, B. Gasparov, and I. Paperno was applied. Also, the theoretical basis of the research is the works of folklorists and psychologists devoted to the motivational structure of folklore tales about an orphan girl, the plot of initiation (O. M. Freudenberg, E. N. Eleonskaya, R. Efimkin, etc.). The research material is Lena Eltang’s novel “Stone maples”. The purpose of the work is to identify the semantics and functions of the fairy-tale intertext in Lena Eltang’s modernist novel “Stone maples”. Results and discussion. The analysis of the novel allowed us to establish the correspondence of the plot logic of the novel to the motivational structure of the magic and literary fairy tale illustrating the stages of initiation. But, firstly, unlike a fairy tale, the Eltang novel is a prose of a “stream of consciousness”, focused on the disclosure of the inner world of a person. Secondly, the complex subject organization of the novel text, compared to the fairy tale, allowed Eltang to build allusions to fairy tales of different subtypes (about female and male initiation) in the storylines of different characters. The main character of the novel Sasha Sonley is building an association of his life with a fairy tale. In its storyline, it is important not only to match the archetypal plot, but also to try to change it. Despite individual efforts, the fate of the central heroine is built in accordance with a fabulous invariant about an orphan girl (in which the author’s, supra-personal will is manifested): mother’s death, loss of father’s protection; con frontation to stepmother; rivalry with stepsister; victory of the stepdaughter thanks to a magical means (maternal amulet), which also contributes to the search for the groom. The function of the mother’s talisman in the novel is performed by Travnik – “secret notebook”, which combines the diary and the set of recipes for traditional medicine. It is perceived as a channel of communication with the deceased mother, plays a key role in finding the intended. Conclusion. Despite efforts to “rewrite” the fairy-tale narrative, Sasha is forced to go through the entire archetypal plot of initiation before rebirth, restoration of harmony. In the spirit of modernism, based equally on the achievement of psychoanalysis and cultural archaic model, the plot of initiation of the heroes of the fable is built in accordance with a folk tale, but this outwardly-event outline corresponds to the inner story is psychologically complex living of its late maturity, separation from feelings of guilt towards parents and resentment toward them, parting with the past for the future.


Fabula ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 172-184
Author(s):  
Vanessa Joosen

Abstract Feminist perspectives have strongly influenced the fairy-tale rewritings of the past decades, but the intersection of gender with other identity markers deserves more attention. This article applies the conclusions of Sylvia Henneberg’s critical examination of age and gender in fairy tales to Gillian Cross’s Wolf (1990), an award-winning rewriting of “Red Riding Hood.” While Wolf presents Nan, the counterpart of Red Riding Hood’s grandmother, as a determined and cunning older woman at first, in the course of the novel, the narrative lapses into the ageist stereotypes of the ineffectual crone and the wise old mentor.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Željka Flegar

This article discusses the implied ‘vulgarity’ and playfulness of children's literature within the broader concept of the carnivalesque as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World (1965) and further contextualised by John Stephens in Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction (1992). Carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales are examined by situating them within Cristina Bacchilega's contemporary construct of the ‘fairy-tale web’, focusing on the arenas of parody and intertextuality for the purpose of detecting crucial changes in children's culture in relation to the social construct and ideology of adulthood from the Golden Age of children's literature onward. The analysis is primarily concerned with Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes (1982) and J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2007/2008) as representative examples of the historically conditioned empowerment of the child consumer. Marked by ambivalent laughter, mockery and the degradation of ‘high culture’, the interrogative, subversive and ‘time out’ nature of the carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales reveals the striking allure of contemporary children's culture, which not only accommodates children's needs and preferences, but also is evidently desirable to everybody.


Author(s):  
Jack Zipes

This book explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. The book reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale. Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance of stories emanating from an oral tradition, and encouraged friends, colleagues, and strangers to gather and share these tales. As a result, hundreds of thousands of wonderful folk and fairy tales poured into books throughout Europe and have kept coming. The book looks at the transformation of the Grimms' tales into children's literature, the Americanization of the tales, the “Grimm” aspects of contemporary tales, and the tales' utopian impulses. It shows that the Grimms were not the first scholars to turn their attention to folk tales, but were vital in expanding readership and setting the high standards for folk-tale collecting that continue through the current era. The book concludes with a look at contemporary adaptations of the tales and raises questions about authenticity, target audience, and consumerism. The book examines the lasting universal influence of two brothers and their collected tales on today's storytelling world.


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