![]() Jansson, Milne and Raud use the “memory of the genre”, combined with the “memory of childhood”, while coming to a new round in literary history. Authors’ artistically create dialogue between folkloric ‘mytho-logic’ and children’s logic through folkloric intertexts and memory of their own childhood. Further, I analysed the folkloric intertext in the scope of children’s literature, which I see as the most vital and natural continuation of fairy tale poetics. Modernism as literary method re-evaluates folkloric aspects such as nonlinear time, the blurred boarders between individual and cosmos, material and spirit, text and reality. As a whole, these genre-making categories help to recreate the archaic world-view. With use of Bakhtin’s terminology and theoretical approach to the folkloric intertext, I defined the following dominating folkloric genre categories, actual in the books I examine: - Bakhtin’s chronotope, that specifies particular arrangements of time and space, artistically expressed in literature - mythological thinking and mythocreation that are incarnated by playing with the map and the superconductivity of fictional time and space - fantastic category, mostly presented by fantastic creatures and occasional magic, has realistic realization, as it is in folklore - formal and narrative presentation of some folkloric functions in characters (like helpers and personification of nature) get new axiological and semantic interpretation. Fairy tale is a complicated genre that historically derives from folklore with its collective conscience of society. Studying a literary genre requires awareness about its traditional background and development in literary history: it is important to understand whether the genre has got its final “classic form” and is not used in its traditional means anymore, or if this genre has found its continuity and assimilates itself with a new time and a new reader. I assume that drawing a diachronical perspective over the transformation of the folk fairy tale genre in the literary legacy of children’s authors would give a more complex overview on the genre development. In this thesis, I examine the disputable problem of defining the fairy tale genre in modern literature. The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre, examining Milne’s books about Winnie-the- Pooh, Jansson’s books about the Moomintrolls, and Raud’s books about Naksitralls.
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