fantasy literature and fairy tales
fantasy literature and fairy tales.Fantasy is one of the most ambiguous notions in literary criticism, and it is often, especially within the context of children's literature, used to denote anything that is not straight realistic prose. It has been treated as a genre, a style, or a narrative technique, and it is sometimes regarded as purely formulaic fiction. In many handbooks fairy tales and fantasy are discussed together without precision, and no totally satisfactory and comprehensive definition of fantasy literature has been conceived so far. The least adequate distinction is that fairy tales are short texts while fantasy takes the form of full‐length novels. For many purposes, the difference is simply irrelevant. There are several ways of distinguishing between fairy tales and fantasy, of which three seem to be most fruitful: generic, structural (that is, spatio‐temporal), and epistemological.
While fairy tales and fantasy are doubtlessly...
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