Title: Innovation elements in Andersen's fairy tales
Abstract: This paper is about innovations introduced by Andersen into a fairy tale giving it at the same time a unique literal dimension. He did so in order to enlighten his gloomy childhood. An Andersen's fairy tale is full of poetry, philosophy and irony allowing readers to interpret it in their own way by discovering the power of words in the fairy tale. Andersen found the motives for his fairy tales in common life, in folk stories he could find, in poetry, and in the world of childhood, plants and animals. He does not implement horrible scenes into his fairy tales. However, he introduces a new composition structure to schedule the flow of occurrences, actions by his heroes, their thoughts and attitudes towards life. During narration, he introduces elements of play, therefore everything in his fairy tales lives and speaks. .
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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