EAN: 9780820458083

METAMORPHOSIS - FRANCISCO VAZ DA SILVA KARTONIE...

Folklorists have become renowned for concentrating on aspects of form and classification to the
detriment of content and meaning. Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy
Tales seeks to reverse this tendency in showing  through an examination of the folkloric data 
that European fairy tales involve complex symbolism. This book seeks to explain - in reference
to the notion of metamorphosis - the puzzling contradictory attributes of fairy-tale figures
that have discouraged the study of meanings in this field and proposes that the workings of
metamorphosis in fairy tales reveal a pervasive cyclic ontology that underlies mythology and
ritual. The issue of universal symbolism is again examined - divested from any archetypal
generalizations - as a subject of worthy reflection.

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