Czy wszyscy znają Jasia i Małgosię? Problem kanonu baśniowego na przykładzie baśni ze zbioru Kinder- und Hausmärchen Wilhelma i Jakuba Grimmów
Is Everyone Familiar with Hansel and Gretel? The Issue of Fairy Tale Canon on the Example of the Fairy Tales from the Kinder- und Hausmärchen Collection by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the problems connected with the idea of fairy tale canon, withattention to the fairy tales from the Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and HouseholdTales) collection by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. Instead of a primary fairy tale or canonical fairy tale, the author proposes a concept of a fairy tale module – an imaginary structureconsisting of multiple versions of a single fairy tale which functions in various registersof production and reception (traditional culture, written culture, technological culture).The article also contains a discussion of the fairy tale re-narration based on the contemporarytexts of culture which modify those fairy tales and which are well-rooted in collectiveimagination. The fairy tales basically work as constructs whose shape is determined by othertexts of culture and various media (literature, film, comic books, etc.). The article also notesthe economic dimension of Grimm’s fairy tales which have been present in culture for over200 years and which still remain subject to constant changes – the fact particularly apparentin the area of popular culture.

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