Als sich Covid-19 in die Märchenwelt einschlich… Zur Rezeption der Grimmschen Motive in "Corona-Märchen" von Izabella Czarnecka
On How Covid-19 Sneaked into the World of Fairy Tales: Reception of the Grimms’ Motifs in Izabella Czarnecka’s "Koronabajki"

Author(s): Dorota Sadowska
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm; Covid-19; illness; children’s literature; fairy-tale therapy
Summary/Abstract: In this article I analyse Koronabajki [Coronatales], juxtaposing them with their prototypes from the fairy-tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. I try to answer the questions of what elements of fairy-tale plot patterns the author kept in her works, which ones she omitted, and, in connection with this, what functions attributed to classical fairy tales – therapeutic, ludic, etc. – can be attributed to these short literary forms and what significance this has for readers.

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