The Shell in the Woods: Questioning the "Unnatural" through Uncanny Fairy Tales' Mirrors, Wonder, and Hybridity

4区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-14 DOI:10.1353/mat.2022.0003

Francesca Arnavas

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Abstract

Abstract:In this article I discuss the "unnatural" as depicted in experimental Victorian and post-modern fairy tales, and I argue for thinking about cognitive narratology, fairy-tale studies, and a re-elaborated uncanny together. The article showcases how specific Victorian and postmodern fairy tales focus on reshaping fairy-tale tropes in surprising and defamiliarizing ways. I focus on how the complex figure of the mirror, the feeling of wonder and the wondrous features of fairy tales, and the idea of hybridity as a manifestation of complexity and heterogeneity, all contribute to the uncanny in literary fairy tales by Lewis Carroll and Italo Calvino.

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森林中的贝壳:通过离奇童话的镜子、奇迹和混杂性来质疑“非自然”

摘要:本文讨论了维多利亚时代实验童话和后现代童话中的“非自然”现象，并主张将认知叙事学、童话研究和重新诠释的“离奇”结合起来进行思考。这篇文章展示了维多利亚时代和后现代童话是如何以令人惊讶和陌生的方式重塑童话的修辞的。我关注的是镜子的复杂形象，童话故事的奇妙之处，以及作为复杂性和异质性表现的混杂性的想法，这些都是刘易斯·卡罗尔和伊塔洛·卡尔维诺的文学童话中不可思议的部分。

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期刊介绍： Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.