A Postmodernist Fairy Tale

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Abstract

A complex fairy tale, Pierre Gripari's Fairy Tale Patrol is explored and revealed to be entirely postmodernist in its approach and its techniques. It begins where most writers of subversive fairy tales end: with a modulation of old ideologies, and ends in subversion subverted.


Opsomming
Pierre Gripari se komptekse sprokie, Patrouille du Conte word ontleed. Wat na vore kom, is die feit dat die verhaal geheel en al postmodernisties is wat sy aanslag en die tegnieke wat gebruik word, betref. Die boek begin waar die meeste skrywers van gemoderniseerde sprokies eindig: met die wysiging van vroeere ideologiee, en dit eindig met die ondermy­ning van ondermyning.

Author Biography

Denise A. Godwin , University of Johannesburg

Denise Godwin is chairman of the French Department of the Rand Afrikaans University. Her publications include a book and a number of articles on the transition from Baroque to Classical fiction writing in seventeenth-century France. Her research interests have recently expanded to include topos and motif, folk and fairy tales, and French African writing.

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Published

1992-06-01

How to Cite

Godwin , Denise A. 1992. “A Postmodernist Fairy Tale”. Journal of Literary Studies 8 (1/2):12 pages. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/19795.

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Vol. 8 No. 1/2 (1992)

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Copyright (c) 1992 Denise A. Godwin

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