Great Mind Matures Slowly, But Has no Equal in its Time: Journey to the West as a Genuine Fairytale Novel

Authors

  • Shu Wei

Keywords:

fairytales, Chinese fairytales, J.R.R. Tolkien

Abstract

In order to gain deeper understanding of the laws governing the movement of present-day fairytale narration, this paper investigates the property of the fairytale novel of the Chinese classical work 'Journey to the West' in terms of Tolkien's (1966) aesthetics of fantasy (which is based on the treatise, 'On Fairy-stories').

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Published

2021-06-13

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2006)

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“Great Mind Matures Slowly, But Has no Equal in its Time: Journey to the West as a Genuine Fairytale Novel” (2021) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 16(2), pp. 96–100. Available at: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/pecl/article/view/1222 (Accessed: 3 May 2024).