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How to Write Contemporary Fairy Tales: Dorota Masłowska’s When I Became a Witch

Author(s): Joanna Chłosta-Zielonka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: children’s literature; literary fairy tale; consumerism;Dorota Masłowska;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to answer the question as to how to make a child reader interested in and focusing attention on reading. According to Jerzy Cieślikowski and many other researchers, children’s literature has its own rules, poetics of genres, and specific communications circuit: publishing houses, the market, the press, and criticism. Dorota Masłowska employed the form of a literary fairy tale to reach out to a young audience. Using the conventions of this genre, she described one of the most painful problems of modern times – excessive consumerism, in which modern man completely loses himself.

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: XXIV
  • Page Range: 137-148
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish