Bengt Holbek and the Study of Meanings in Fairy Tales
This paper argues that Bengt Holbek’s attempt to reduce all “marvelous” elements in fairy tales to real-world referents drastically conceals the dynamics of traditional symbolic representations underlying this narrative genre.
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10071/644 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/644 |
| Summary: | This paper argues that Bengt Holbek’s attempt to reduce all “marvelous” elements in fairy tales to real-world referents drastically conceals the dynamics of traditional symbolic representations underlying this narrative genre. |
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