„[...] und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute“. Parodie in "Prinzessin Rosenblüte" von Kirsten Boie
“[...] and if They Did Not Die, They Live to This Day”: Parody in "Prinzessin Rosenblüte" by Kirsten Boie

Author(s): Małgorzata Filipowicz
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: parody; fairy tale; children’s literature; society
Summary/Abstract: In this article, the aim of the analysis is to examine parody as a comic technique in "Prinzessin Rosenblüte" by Kirsten Boie. The characters of folk tales are analysed: a princess, a fairy, a king and a prince in their new parody in a contemporary fairy tale for children by Kirsten Boie. Parody concerns not only the stereotypical incarnations of the characters of folk tales, but also other motifs, forms and narrative structures of fairy tales, which in Boie’s contemporary fairy tale are shown in a caricatured light. Although the fairy-tale convention has been parodied, it is a buffer construction, thanks to which the young reader’s confrontation with the social, cultural and political dilemmas of the modern world is easily perceptible to his or her psyche.

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