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Death and Resurrection in Tolkien´s Essay "On Fairy-Stories" and in Traditional Fairy Tales
HOLEJŠOVSKÁ, Kateřina
At first, in the theoretical part of my bachelor's work, I explain the key concept of "resurrection" in both Christian and pagan contexts. Further, I occupy myself with Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories", in which he, besides other things, deals with the main functions of fairy tales, which are recovery, escape and consolation. Afterwards, I pay attention to the rites of passage, related to life, death, and resurrection. In the practical part, I devote myself to the analysis of classical fairy tales in the context of the knowledge acquired in the first part of the work.
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