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i wanted to make a video about all those book tropes on tiktok and ended up talking about fairytales, fanfiction and poststructuralism.

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00:00 intro
5:35 is originality dead?
17:18 fanfiction
28:18 beyond structure
35:51 the alternative


sources
essays:
Mackenzie A Parsons, "Once Upon a Time, Again: Exploring the Function of Fairy Tale Retellings" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 10198.
Vladimir Propp, "Morphology of the folktale" (1928, revised and translated to english 1968)
Claude Levi Strauss, Structures and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp (1958)
Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)

books:
Catherine Belsey, "Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction" (2002)

online articles:
Booktoks tropeification of literature is problematic: https://www.bupipedream.com/opinions/...
Are tropes ruining books? https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/bo...
Marketing books through tropes and how it affects the publishing industry: https://www.bookishdelights.com/mark...
Controversial book lover opinions: https://www.buzzfeed.com/isabeldaly/c...
Harvard Library Research Guide for Folklore and Mythology: https://guides.library.harvard.edu/fo...
Cinderella: AarneThompsonUther folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510...


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