“UPSIDE DOWN” NARRATIVE IN FAIRY TALES “SNOW WHITE: THE UNTOLD STORY”
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue
Abstract
The term “anti-fairy tale” appeared in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. It designated fairy tales which had a tragic rather than happy end. Some elements of “anti-fairy tales” can be observed in modern reinterpretations of well-known folk fairy tales. Negative characters which become main characters, twisted plot and composition structure can signal about the status of a fairy tale as an “upside down” fairy tale. Modern paradigm of narrative theory is the paradigm of cognitive narrative, which focuses on mental processes of creation literary texts, creative activity of the author and cognitive competence of the reader to comprehend the text. To understand an “upside down” narrative text a reader must know the plot of the classical fairy tale. We consider classical fairy tale with a well-known plot to be a “natural” narrative (in terms of Monika Fludernik) which enables to impose “upside down” narrative on the “basic” narrative. Such cognitive operation enables a reader to comprehend a new narrative, compare a well-known story with its new interpretation. The main criteria of “upside down” fairy tale is a special narrator, as a rule an anti-hero of a classical fairy tale, who appears to be the main character and a narrator in an “upside down” narrative text. The narrator of the untold story of Snow White is her stepmother. Her story-telling is emotional, subjective and it gives an access to the consciousness of the main character (Alan Palmer) (who is a narrator). Such fictional mind tells the story from his point of view acquits himself and suggests a reader to believe in a different story and her innocence.
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Алла Олексіївна Цапів
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