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Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales

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Main Author: Vaz da Silva, Francisco
Publication Date: 2002
Format: Book
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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Summary: Folklorists have become renowned for focusing on aspects of form and classification to the detriment of content and meaning. Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales seeks to reverse this tendency in showing, through an examination of the folkloric data, that European fairy tales involve complex symbolism. This book seeks to explain - in reference to the notion of metamorphosis - the puzzling contradictory attributes of fairy-tale figures that have discouraged the study of meanings in this field, and proposes that the workings of metamorphosis in fairy tales reveal a pervasive cyclic ontology that underlies mythology and ritual. The issue of universal symbolism is again examined - divested from any «archetypal» generalizations - as a subject of worthy reflection.
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title Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales
spellingShingle Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales
Vaz da Silva, Francisco
Fairy tales
Symbolism
Blood
Folklore
Freud, Sigmund
Metamorphosis
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Dundes, Alan
title_short Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales
title_full Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales
title_fullStr Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales
title_full_unstemmed Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales
title_sort Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales
author Vaz da Silva, Francisco
author_facet Vaz da Silva, Francisco
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vaz da Silva, Francisco
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Fairy tales
Symbolism
Blood
Folklore
Freud, Sigmund
Metamorphosis
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Dundes, Alan
topic Fairy tales
Symbolism
Blood
Folklore
Freud, Sigmund
Metamorphosis
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Dundes, Alan
description Folklorists have become renowned for focusing on aspects of form and classification to the detriment of content and meaning. Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales seeks to reverse this tendency in showing, through an examination of the folkloric data, that European fairy tales involve complex symbolism. This book seeks to explain - in reference to the notion of metamorphosis - the puzzling contradictory attributes of fairy-tale figures that have discouraged the study of meanings in this field, and proposes that the workings of metamorphosis in fairy tales reveal a pervasive cyclic ontology that underlies mythology and ritual. The issue of universal symbolism is again examined - divested from any «archetypal» generalizations - as a subject of worthy reflection.
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