Dr. Zahra Jannessari Ladani & Hosna Kasmaee
University of Isfahan, Iran
Today, the cinematic images have surrounded the consciousness of the people living in different parts of the world. The American fairytale series Once Upon a Time has gathered the voices of several familiar fairytales in two parallel worlds, the Enchanted Forest and Stroybrooke, in order to engender a new Bakhtinian dialogue among these folkloric stories. This paper aims to apply the notion of Bakhtinian character on Kitsis and Horowitz’s Once Upon a Time. The organization of voices in Once Upon a Time represents rich examples illustrative of Bakhtinian character. Furthermore, as a series produced in postmodern context, Once Upon a Time is a reflection of Bakhtin’s perceptions of language as a dynamic, unfinished process. This essay will mainly focus on the first area. Specifically, the present study reveals the hidden layers of voices and languages embedded within the folkloric characters in order to show that the scenario of Once Upon a Time is a novel “par excellence” whose main concern is orchestrating a diversity of voices among the past folkloric characters.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
