Document Acties
The Fairy Tale Vanguard
| Wat | Congres |
| Wanneer | 20-08-2012 08:45 tot 22-08-2012 17:00 |
| Waar | Kunsthal Sint-Pietersabdij Gent |
| Organisator | Stijn Praet (UGent) en Vanessa Joosen (UA) |
| Contact | |
| Website | http://www.fairytale.ugent.be |
During the past decades, a lot has changed in the field of fairy tale studies: moving away from typological, structuralist and hermeneutically essentialist approaches, scholars today have again come to appreciate the specificity of individual fairy tale texts, the historical context in which they originated, and the many ways in which they have functioned. This general turn to history has brought about a variety of interesting new approaches, many of them focusing on questions of a social, political or ideological nature.
However, when it comes to the fairy tale's functioning as a literary art form , i.e. as partaking in the dynamics of larger literary fields, research interests have been much more moderate. During the upcoming conference, we intend to re-examine the fairy tale in ways that will shed light on the genre's position within the conservative and innovative forces that make up for the historical development of literatures. More specifically, we will take off from the idea that throughout its history, the fairy tale has provided authors with a space in which they could engage in literary experimentation and self-consciously reflect on contemporary trends in the literary field. As a result, it was often tied up with or even constituted literary vanguard impulses.