Postmodernistyczny retelling baśni — garść uwag terminologicznych

Nowadays, new versions of well-known fairy tales are extremely popular. However, it is debatable how to define such works. The author of the paper Postmodern Retelling of Fairy Tales — A Handful of Terminological Comments suggests using the term “retelling” in relation to a particular group of postmodern works which tell canonical, traditional fairy tales in new ways. Andrzej Sapkowski’s definition of “retelling” and differences between this notion and the others (such as “rewriting” or “adaptation”) are also considered. The article concludes with a proposal to form a new definition of “retelling”. It is based on the conviction that this term should be used to call both the mode of storytelling and such works in which various aspects of pre-texts undergo essential revisions.