Limbă, Literatură, Folclor

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52505/llf.2025.2.10

Abstract: The article investigates how Ion Creangă’s narrative universe is reconfigured in five contemporary sequels brought together in the Creangă 2.0 project (2019), analyzing the processes of rewriting and updating traditional fairy tales. The study looks at how these texts reinterpret the structure of the traditional fairy tale, through an analysis of: the evolution of characters and gender roles; historical and social influences; structural and thematic reconfigurations; symbolic valences and metaphorical registers; the relationship between the audience and the reception environment. The methodological framework combines hypertextual analysis (G. Genette) with fairy tale morphology (V. Propp) and a reading of narrative and ideological mutations in modern rewritings (J. Zipes) in order to capture recurring shifts from punitive moralizing and binary oppositions to more nuanced ethical scenarios centered on empathy, cooperation, and the renegotiation of gender roles. Anchored in narratological tools (V. Propp), (G. Genette) and narrative mutation theory (J. Zipes), the research highlights a shift from binary and authoritarian morality to a reflexive and democratic ethic centered on empathy, gender equality, and cooperation. The results reveal the intertextual dynamics between canonical texts and their contemporary rewritings, as well as the way in which they translate current sensibilities without breaking continuity with literary tradition.

Keywords: contemporary rewriting, intertextuality, comparative narratology, narrative mutation, literary ethics, gender representation, Creangă 2.0.