are tropes on booktok ruining reading?

Опубликовано: 12 Июль 2026
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i wanted to make a video about all those book tropes on tiktok and ended up talking about fairytales, fanfiction and post-structuralism.

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00:00 intro
5:35 is originality dead?
17:18 fanfiction
28:18 beyond structure
35:51 the alternative

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sources
essays:
Mackenzie A Parsons, "Once Upon a Time, Again: Exploring the Function of Fairy Tale Retellings" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 10198.
Vladimir Propp, "Morphology of the folktale" (1928, revised and translated to english 1968)
Claude Levi- Strauss, Structures and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp (1958)
Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)

books:
Catherine Belsey, "Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction" (2002)

online articles:
Booktoks tropeification of literature is problematic: https://www.bupipedream.com/opinions/...
Are tropes ruining books? https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/bo...
Marketing books through tropes and how it affects the publishing industry: https://www.bookish-delights.com/mark...
Controversial book lover opinions: https://www.buzzfeed.com/isabeldaly/c...
Harvard Library Research Guide for Folklore and Mythology: https://guides.library.harvard.edu/fo...
Cinderella: Aarne-Thompson-Uther folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510...
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