The World of Fantasy and the World of Myth: The Fairy Tales

Abstract

In the midst of the uncertainty that prevails on the concepts of fantasy and myth, this article aims to clarify their points of convergence and divergence. It does so from well-known fairy tales (Tom Thumb, The Sleeping Beauty) in both traditional (Perrault) and contemporary (Tournier) versions. The angle of focus, transcendence, allows to offer a series of safe criteria to analyse these and many other similar.