Revisiting the Narrative Inheritances: a Reading of “The Pied Piper of Hamerlin” and “The Returnr of the Dark Children”
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2013v26p105Keywords:
Fairy tales, Robert Coover, Rereading, The Pied Piper of HamelinAbstract
The use of the classic fairy tales are very common in contemporary literature. Nowadays the authors subvert, transform and reread the traditional fairy tales in a new perspective, breaking the values of the past and showing new values more appropriate to current society. No longer makes sense to think in the real itself or in big narratives, in a world full of simulacra, globalized and populated by excessive information. Thus, the aim of this paper is to investigate how the fairy tales still remain as current in contemporary literature and how the tale “The return of the dark children” deals with issues such as fear and evil.References
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