Romanticism and surrealism shared a fascination with the fairy tale. Yet each was beholden to specific historical moments and particular aesthetic demands. What they wanted were not the same. This article considers how the romantic fairy tale nevertheless functions as a ‘seed’ for surrealists. Contagions, commonalities, and contrasts between the two movements are briefly outlined. A selection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen is used to demonstrate how a host of visual reinterpretations including lithographs, photo-collages, and video art by twentieth-century surrealists like Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst, and twenty-first-century avant-garde artists like Åsa Sjöström, have reinterpreted the latent possibilities of non-sense in the f...
This research has not been informed by direct visual comparison between Disney animation and works o...
This is a pre-print of the published article.Despite the dark impulses that drive many fairy tales, ...
This article explores what happens – cognitively speaking – when Readers are confronted with those r...
Was Walt Disney a surrealist? And did his popular forms of fantasy actually possess a secret avant-g...
As the fairy tale is recycled in contemporary retellings, the influence of realistic literature is p...
Surrealism establishes a bridge between the physical realm and the domain of dreams and illusions. I...
This article seeks to address the ‘identity’ of the ‘gothic fairy-tale’ through an investigation of ...
Surrealism is an attitude toward life, even more than a literary and artistic movement. It aspired t...
Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have...
To Romantics the principle of life, its mystery and power, propelled a desire to ‘see into the life ...
According to recent research in literary studies, literature has a specific knowledge about things. ...
From surrealism’s beginnings around a Parisian séance table, it oscillated between the occult and th...
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this recordThis ar...
This article focuses initially on new empirical research that deliberately utilizes folktales and fa...
CZECH SURREALISM AND CZECH NEW WAVE REALISM: THE IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTS AbstractThis article examines...
This research has not been informed by direct visual comparison between Disney animation and works o...
This is a pre-print of the published article.Despite the dark impulses that drive many fairy tales, ...
This article explores what happens – cognitively speaking – when Readers are confronted with those r...
Was Walt Disney a surrealist? And did his popular forms of fantasy actually possess a secret avant-g...
As the fairy tale is recycled in contemporary retellings, the influence of realistic literature is p...
Surrealism establishes a bridge between the physical realm and the domain of dreams and illusions. I...
This article seeks to address the ‘identity’ of the ‘gothic fairy-tale’ through an investigation of ...
Surrealism is an attitude toward life, even more than a literary and artistic movement. It aspired t...
Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have...
To Romantics the principle of life, its mystery and power, propelled a desire to ‘see into the life ...
According to recent research in literary studies, literature has a specific knowledge about things. ...
From surrealism’s beginnings around a Parisian séance table, it oscillated between the occult and th...
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this recordThis ar...
This article focuses initially on new empirical research that deliberately utilizes folktales and fa...
CZECH SURREALISM AND CZECH NEW WAVE REALISM: THE IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTS AbstractThis article examines...
This research has not been informed by direct visual comparison between Disney animation and works o...
This is a pre-print of the published article.Despite the dark impulses that drive many fairy tales, ...
This article explores what happens – cognitively speaking – when Readers are confronted with those r...