Approaches to the literary fairy tale
Approaches to the literary fairy tale.The literary fairy tale has been of scholarly interest since the 19th century and it has been discussed from a range of conceptual viewpoints using a variety of methodologies. Conceptual approaches to literary texts are always underpinned and shaped by ideological assumptions about relationships between language, meaning, narrative, literature, society, and literary audiences; and, to some extent, varying approaches to the fairy tale reflect the critical, cultural, and historical contexts in which they have been formulated. No single approach or methodology is able to arrive at a ‘correct’ interpretation of the fairy tale; instead, different methodologies suit different critical and ideological purposes. The main conceptual approaches to the literary fairy tale to have emerged in the 20th century are: folkloricist, structuralist, literary, psychoanalytic, historicist, marxist, and feminist approaches.
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