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Vaz da Silva, F. (2017). Fairy-tale symbolism: an overview. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.: Oxford University Press (OUP).
F. G. Silva, "Fairy-tale symbolism: an overview", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017
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TY - CHAP TI - Fairy-tale symbolism: an overview T2 - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature AU - Vaz da Silva, F. PY - 2017 DO - 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.79 UR - http://literature.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-79 AB - Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have pored over the problem of fairy-tale symbolism. Models sharing the nineteenth-century penchant for genetic inquiries have assumed that symbols are the survivals of archaic metaphors. Thus, Max Müller proposed that myths and fairy tales stem from obscured metaphors about solar phenomena; Sigmund Freud speculated that fairy-tale symbolism is the fossilized residue of primordial sexual metaphors; and Carl Jung submitted that symbols express immanent archetypes of the human psyche. ER -