Retelling w literaturze fantasy: od renarracji do metafikcji

Abstract

Retelling is often associated solely with contemporary literature, but its sources are in the processes of transforming and “literarizing” folk tales, undertaken by Charles Perrault (whose original 17th-century Mother Goose Tales are commonly known in censored, 19th-century renditions) or the Grimm brothers. At the same time, retelling means telling known stories again (and therefore using the English term seems appropriate, as no Polish word might serve as a full equivalent), but it is also more than that. This strategy also covers rewriting, editing and even subversive transforming that I propose to call “rescription” (due to intertextual or transfictional nature of thus created texts). The second part of my paper discusses two such rescriptions: Uprooted by Naomi Novik and Pan Lodowego Ogrodu (“The Lord of the Ice Garden”) series by Jarosław Grzędowicz.