Rzeczy w magicznych światach (o roli przedmiotów w bajkach ludowych i baśniach literackich)
Things in Magical Worlds (On the Cultural Role of Objects in Folk Tales and Fairy-tales)

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the presentation of items in Polish folk tales and literary fairy tales of the 19th-20th centuries. The resources of the presented items and the scope of theirfictional and cultural functions are described. The starting point is the theory of experiential myth. The main goal is to show the differences in departing from objects in the past andtoday. When in peasant culture everything found its use in every phase of its existence, which minimized the production of waste, in urban culture damaged things were replacedwith new ones, cheap due to their mass production. The above opposition juxtaposition seems to reflect the broader phenomena that fit into various variants of culture - underflow(lack) and excess (overflow), which at the narrative level of broadly understood folk tales and fairy tales has a far-reaching plot and interpretative effects.

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