Anti-Tales : The Uses of Disenchantment
ISBN: 9781443830553
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Fiction; Social Science;

The anti-(fairy) tale has long existed in the shadow of the traditional fairy tale as its flipside or evil twin. According to Andr(r) Jolles in Einfache Formen (1930), such Antimnrchen are contemporaneous Other some the earliest known oral variants of familiar tales. While fairy tales are generally characterised by a OC spirit of optimismOCO (Tolkien) the anti-tale offers us no such assurances; for every OC happily ever after, OCO there is a dissenting OC they all died horribly.OCO The anti-tale is, however, ..."


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