SEMANTICO-SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF OSCAR WILDE’S FAIRY TALES

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dc.contributor.authorRubina Rahman
dc.contributor.authorSupervisor Professor Mujib Rahman, PhD (Edinburgh)
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-28T06:26:20Z
dc.date.available2026-08-28T06:26:20Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractFairy tales have always had an irresistible fascination for children and adults alike. As a text type, they have a very old tradition that goes back to antiquity. Over the centuries, the fairy tale has developed its own structure and set of conventions that classify it as a separate genre. Its roots are in the oral narrative tradition. With an increase in literacy and the invention of the printing press, it developed its own distinct written version referred to as the literary fairy tale, which, over the years, have been collected or compiled by various writers, the most famous among them being the Brothers Grimm. A name within this genre that has not received his due literary recognition is that of Oscar Wilde, for his literary fairy tales have been overshadowed by his brilliant plays and his towering personality. In this study, we examined Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales and attempted to establish them as belonging to the fairy tale text type by investigating their structure and their semantic as well as their syntactic features. First, we applied Propp’s morphological model to study their syntactic structure. Second, we focused on the manner in which the Faerie Realm is created in the tales. For this purpose, we analysed the interplay of time and space in the discourse world of the tales from a cognitive stance; and explored the use of grammatical devices.
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.uop.edu.pk/123456789/474
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDepartmentof English & Applied Linguistics, University of Peshawar
dc.relation.ispartofseriesth12465
dc.titleSEMANTICO-SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF OSCAR WILDE’S FAIRY TALES
dc.typeThesis
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