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Title: | Fairy Tale Transformation: The Pied Piper Theme in Australian Fiction | Contributor(s): | Masson, Sophie Veronique (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19513 | Open Access Link: | http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1116 | Abstract: | The traditional German tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin inhabits an ambiguous narrative borderland, a liminal space between fact and fiction, fantasy and horror, concrete details and elusive mystery. In his study of the Pied Piper in Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature, Wolfgang Mieder describes how manuscripts and other evidence appear to confirm the historical base of the story. Precise details from a fifteenth-century manuscript, based on earlier sources, specify that in 1284 on the 26th of June, the feast-day of Saints John and Paul, 130 children from Hamelin were led away by a piper clothed in many colours to the Koppen Hill, and there vanished (Mieder 48). Later manuscripts add details familiar today, such as a plague of rats and a broken bargain with burghers as a motive for the Piper's actions, while in the seventeenth century the first English-language version advances what might also be the first attempt at a "rational" explanation for the children's disappearance, claiming that they were taken to Transylvania. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | M/C Journal, 19(4), p. 1-3 | Publisher: | Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1441-2616 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470502 Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) 430308 European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950203 Languages and Literature | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130203 Literature | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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