CUTTINGS FROM THE POLISH GRIMMOSPHERE. FAIRY TALES FROM THE COLLECTION KINDER- UND HAUSMÄRCHEN BY WILHEL AND JAKUB GRIMM IN POLISH LITERATURE 1865–1939The article is an overview of the reception of fairy tales from the collection Kinder- und Hausmärchen by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm in 1865–1939 in Poland, taking into account the cultural factors infl uencing the form of the analysed sources. The author refers to and comments on reviews, notes, articles, reports, commentaries, publishing catalogues, encyclopaedic entries as well as introductions to the various Polish-language editions of the fairy tales which explicitly tackled the topic of the collection Kinder- und Hausmärchen. The article also contains a terminological suggestion in the form of “Grimmosphere” treated as a structure made up of cultural phenomena and encompassing both Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm’s writings, collections, studies and scholarly theories, and their reception.

The article presents selected procedures for transforming individual elements of traditional fairy tales (characters, plots, aesthetics, axiology) and their desirability as illustrated by the example of a computer game “American McGee’s Grimm”. The author presents the functioning of a fairy tale within popular culture, taking into account the phenomenon of fairytale industry. It also highlights the fact of using fairy tales as material for narration at the level of different media, which results from its roots in the popular imagination and the final fairy tale pattern recognition by the public. The analysis of the three episodes transforming canonical tales (“Little Red Riding Hood”, “Snow White”, “Cinderella”) leads to some conclusions of the functional mechanisms of postmodern fairy tales.

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Transformation of fairy tales patterns in children’s literature available on the contemporary publishing marketWhat the contemporary publishing market offers the youngest readers are texts that make various forms of fairy tale characters — a  strongly representative group among them consists of texts that are transformations of fairy tale patterns that are deeply rooted in the mass imaginations including children’s imagination, which promote a  new version of a  well-known story: fairy tale renarrations. Such texts not only constitute evidence of changes in the fairy tale genre, but also prove the continuous updates on fairy tales. The aim of the article is to present and discuss how the authors modify specific characteristics of the fairy tale and play with its tradition. The examples of recognizable fairy tale patterns that are deeply rooted in the culture Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella were used to present the primary mechanisms of use and modification of fairy tales in children’s literature on the post-2000 Polish publishing market.The description of intertextual relationships between the fairy tale patterns and their renarrations renarration mechanisms has been supplemented with an analysis of influence of popular culture on children’s literature interpenetrating of cultural and literary circulations and the fashion for fairy tales. The studied works include those that have been written with gender education in mind, promotion of knowledge on rights of a  child or the environment and those primary aim of which is to entertain the young audience through reading. The article is also an encouragement to reflection on the genealogy of contemporary fairy tales and the shape, in which the “children’s fabulous fairy-tale-sphere” functions, and the factors that influence it.