klasyki: Fairy tale

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A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. Prevalent elements include dragons, dwarfs, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, merfolk, mon…

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REMARQUE IN FAIRY TALE AND NON-FAIRY TALE TEXT: THE PROBLEM OF SPEECH GENRE. The article raises the problem of the speech-genre status of remarks, by which the narrator accompanies his or her narration. The question of the boundaries of these elements and their relations with the folklore text (fairy tale and non-fairy tale prose), on the basis of which they arise and exist, is investigated. The principal differences between commentary in a fairy tale and in a mythological story and the reasons for these differences are revealed. It is established that the key parameter distinguishing the text of folktale narrative and commentary is the image of the author, as the change of the status of th…

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A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history. Narratives in this genre may demonstrate human values, and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participants, may include miracles. Legends may be transformed over time to keep them fresh and vital. Many legends operate within the realm of uncertainty, never being entirely believed by the participants, but also never being resolutely doubted. Legends are sometimes distinguished from myths in that they concern human beings as the main characters and do not necessarily have supernatural orig…

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Fairy-Tale Collisions, or the Explosion of a Genre. 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…

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The Tale of Tawara Tōda (俵藤太物語, Tawara Tōda monogatari) is a Japanese heroic tale recounting the legendary exploits of Fujiwara no Hidesato. It is part of the otogi-zōshi genre of tales dating to the Edo Period or earlier. Some of the fabulous accounts are also told in the military pseudo-chronicle, Taiheiki (14th century). Hidesato used a bow and arrow to kill a giant centipede (mukade) wrapped around a mountain near Lake Biwa, fulfilling the request of a serpent at a bridge, which turned out to be a court lady (or Dragon King) from the underwater Ryūgū-jō (龍宮城) "Dragon Palace". The hero was entertained at the palace and received rewards including armor and sword, and an inexhaustible bag…

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A Russian fairy tale or folktale (Russian: ска́зка, romanised: skazka; plural ска́зки, skazki) is a fairy tale in Russian culture. Various sub-genres of skazka exist. A volshebnaya skazka (Russian: волше́бная ска́зка, lit. 'magical tale') is considered a magical tale, skazki o zhivotnykh are tales about animals, and bytovye skazki are tales about household life. Russian folklore was first collected by scholars and systematically studied in the 19th century. Russian fairy tales and folk tales were catalogued (compiled, grouped, numbered and published) by Alexander Afanasyev in his 1850s Narodnye russkie skazki. Scholars of folklore still refer to his collected texts when citing the number of…

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Himalayan Folklore and the Fairy Tale Genre. Based on fieldwork by the author conducted in Tibetan cultural areas of the Indian Himalayas, this paper explores Himalayan understandings of what defines a fairy tale, in contrast to the Western understanding. In parts of the Himalayas, a distinction is made between “lakshung” (fairy tales) and “kyakshung”, which are shorter stories, the kind one might tell over tea. In light of the proposals to record and disseminate many of these stories using new media, this paper seeks to examine these genre definitions and investigates the various contexts in which these stories are told.

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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

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