Postmodern Prose and Fairy-Tale Resurrection – Mythical Morphologies in Romanian and European Fairy Tales

Abstract

This paper is focused on rivaling a comparative study on various typologies of characters from Romanian and European fairy tales. We intend to bring into the foreground the pantheon of mythical creatures of different ancient cultures that were considered the basis of character construction in popular fairy tales. Another concern of this paper is to compare popular cultural products belonging to the same literary species, as well as a comparative analysis between modern and postmodern cultural products, revealing mythical functions in the postmodern imaginary and traditional perspectives on myths. The mythical resurrection phenomenon is brought into discussion together with re-sacralization and de-sacralization.