Unnatural Narration and Modern Czech Fairy-Tales
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Description | The lecture concentrated on the contrast of using of unnaturalness (impossibility) in the literary texts for children – fairy-tales, where unnaturalness become a familiar form (a convention) of the narrative representation, and in other genres. The speech analysed the unnatural elements of the narrative in the chosen Czech texts written by Pavel Šrut (Lichožrouti), Tomáš Pěkný (Havrane z kamene…) and Petra Braunová (O chlapci, který spadl z nebe). The represented impossibilities lead to the new conception of magic objects (speaking stone), characters (beings with wings, invisible beings, doubting witch), place (paralel worlds behind the wall, in the heaven, in the wood) and time in the story. It reflects how they can help to describe our real world and what they are able to say about human being. |
| Related projects: |