@article{Jaworska_2020, title={Between the Prototype and the Adaptation: A Plot Analysis of the Contemporary Editions of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Transformations of the Religious Content}, volume={64}, url={https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/article/view/LL.1.2020.001}, DOI={10.12775/LL.1.2020.001}, abstractNote={Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, for years regarded as children’s literature classics,<br />remain unknown even among the most committed readers. This is indicated by the results<br />of a survey I conducted on the knowledge of the content of Andersen’s most popular works.<br />The answers of the parents of preschool children have prompted me to analyze the latest<br />publications including the writer’s stories. The article presents my conclusions drawn from<br />the comparison of contemporary editions of fairy tales for children with their prototypes in<br />terms of the occurrence of differences in the plot, especially the presence of the religious<br />content, often overlooked today. The criterion for the selection of the sources, which include<br />32 Polish books by 14 different publishers, was the date of publication (after 2000) and the<br />requirement to include at least one of the following stories: “The Snow Queen” (22 texts),<br />“The Little Mermaid” (18 texts) or “The Wild Swans” (9 texts). The analysis has enabled<br />indicating certain tendencies in the way changes were introduced to the stories in the editions<br />of the fairy tales for 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds. It has also highlighted the problem of open<br />paraphrasing. The second part of the article contains reflections on simplifying fairy tales<br />for children’s use and methods of removing content considered too difficult and abstract<br />or sad and traumatic. The article concludes with an evaluation of this phenomenon from<br />a pedagogical-psychological and publishing perspective.}, number={1}, journal={Literatura Ludowa. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture}, author={Jaworska, Michalina}, year={2020}, month={Sep.}, pages={5–16} }