Great Mind Matures Slowly, But Has no Equal in its Time: Journey to the West as a Genuine Fairytale Novel
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fairytales, Chinese fairytales, J.R.R. TolkienAbstract
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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2021-06-13
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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: 22 November 2024).