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[adiva_calandia]

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Are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass fairy tales?

Important question is important! Seriously!

Comments

[ashen_key]

Iiiii would say no! Fairytales I think of as being traditions and folklore - the Alice books are still books created by one person.

[shati.livejournal.com]

Define your terms!

[sdelmonte]

I will buck the trend and say it is. Anything that is treated as one by the world is one. Same for Hans Christen Anderson. Same maybe even for The Jungle Book.

Yes, I am using use in Fables as an indicator.

[batyatoon]

I think I have to disagree with Ashie and say that a story can be a fairytale without being a folktale -- "tradition and history and an organic growing of something" being essential to the latter but not the former.

This doesn't address whether or not Alice is a fairytale, though. I may still be kind of stumped on that.