Anti-tales : the uses of disenchantment
Antiheroes in literature Fairy tales Antiheroes as literary characters Entmythologisierung Enttäuschung Ernüchterung Märchen SOCIAL SCIENCE Criticism, interpretation, etc sähkökirjat
Cambridge Scholars
2011
EISBN 9781283142991
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, ...
