Nostalgie, Utopie und Spiel in Märchenerzählungen der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur
Abstract
Nostalgia, utopia and play in fairy tales
of contemporary German literature
Fairy-tale motives and narratives seem to be more up to date than ever and are employed and updated in a wide variety of mode in the German literature of the 20th and the 21th century. M.L. Kaschnitz’ Der alte Garten – a tale between idyll
and apocalypse – offers an utopian concept of human life in harmony with nature, addressing men’s moral responsibility. Wit and irony, parody and gender play structure K. Duve’s fairy-tale-novel Die entführte Prinzessin and her ‘corrections’
of the KHM-pretexts in Grrrimm. Very different again is M. Lüder’s Aminas Restaurant using elements of oriental fairy tales as escape routes from reality. These and many other examples employ fairy-tale elements as collective survival
narratives in – or even especially in – times of modern and postmodern crises.
Keywords / Anahtar Sözcükler: Parody, gender play with fairy-tale motives,
utopian concept, correction of Grimm-pretexts, escapist function, collective
survival narratives in crises.
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Details
Primary Language
German
Subjects
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Journal Section
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Authors
Ruth Neubauer-petzoldt
This is me
Publication Date
May 27, 2014
Submission Date
May 27, 2014
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2013 Volume: 2 Number: 30