Dieda
female, 26 |
Student at the Uni
Belgrade / Serbia
member since 26.02.2004
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A student of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, specifying in Norwegian; interested in saga literature, fantasy, mythology, history, somewhat anthropology. Love languages.
"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the word outside literary criticism give no warrant at all... Evidently we are faced by a misuse of words, and also by a confusion of thought. Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing... the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter." - J.R.R.Tolkien, On Fairy Stories |
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