Anti-fairy tale

"The Fisherman and His Wife" illustration by Alexander Zick.

An anti-fairy tale, also called anti-tale, is a fairy tale which, unlike an ordinary one, has a tragic, rather than a happy ending and the evil ones triumph or the hero suffers.[1][2] The term (German: Antimärchen) was introduced by Andrè Jolles[1] in his Einfache Formen (1930).[3]

Examples include "The Fisherman and His Wife" and "The Swineherd".[1]

The term is also used to refer to remakes of traditional "happy" fairy tales into "unhappy" ones.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F, article "Anti-fairy tale", p. 50
  2. 1 2 Catriona McAra, David Calvin, Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, May 25, 2011, ISBN 1443830550, p. 4
  3. ↑ André Jolles: Einfache Formen. Legende, Sage, Mythe, Rätsel, Spruch, Kasus, Memorabile, Märchen, Witz. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1930 (Forschungsinstitut für Neuere Philologie Leipzig: Neugermanistische Abteilung; 2) p. 242.

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