While i was reading his article, i found fairy-story and fantasy are interrelated to each other and hard to separate them that nearly the same genre so i just put them together all related things. The one i found is that both are related to the supernaturalism and magic. There are always found a number of supernatural and magical symbols in those two genres, especially in that when they describe the beauty of nature as Tolkien (1964) defines 'the realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril. This can also be the definition of fantasy genre. In addition, he considers Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, …it holds the seas, the sun.. and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, etc. His notion of faery story is the one that involves a faery. The other supporting definition of fairies i found is that 'supernatural beings of diminutive size'. Another one he defines is, a fairy-story is one which touches on or uses Faerie, whatever its own main purpose maybe: satire, adventure, morality, fantasy. Faerie itself may perhaps most nearly be translated by Magic, magic of a peculiar mood and power. Attebery (1980) also states, the fantasy treats impossibilities and magical objects.
References
Attebery,. B. The Fantasy Tradition In American Literature: From Iriving to Le Guin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980, 1-10.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (1988; 1964). On Faerie Stories. In Tree and Leaf. London: Unwin Hyman.
Ji-Eun this response is more interesting than your earlier ones - I get a sense of your own voice "While i was reading his article, i found" and a level of engagement with the theoretical material. The only thing is you really need to respond to two discussion questions each week.
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