Fiaba e albo illustrato. Riflessioni su un fortunato incontro.

Susanna Barsotti

2020-01-01

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Abstract

The fairy tale, by virtue of its ability to travel in space and time, changing shape and adapting to new historical periods and new languages, creeps, sometimes silently, into the different forms of storytelling, letting itself be caught only by traces and clues. The illustrated album, for its part, is by its very nature characterised by the contamination of different languages and by the polysemy that arises from the fruitful encounter between text and image that always produces new texts. The present essay proposes some reflections on the fortunate encounter, in contemporary children's literature, between the two particular narrative devices, the first one millenary and the second one of the last decades, highlighting how it is precisely in the illustrated book that the fairy tale finds today the most fertile ground to reconfirm its narrative force and its pedagogical-educational value.