Meaning-making across disparate realities: A new cognitive model for the personality-integrating response to fairy tales

Elizabeth Bolton
2016 Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies  
AbstractThis paper reviews the extant literature on ways readers make meaning from fairy tales, and proposes a new cognitive model for the response to the traditional fairy tale. Much of the available research on literary responses to fairy tales comes from within the boundaries of psychoanalysis (Bettelheim 1975.
doi:10.1515/sem-2015-0141 fatcat:sbdo2qukmnhqll6eerkyeazhmi