Abstract
The present study is just an aspect of an extended work dedicated to the Romanian fantastic folktale and consists of three parts, which are concentrated on the folktale’s perspectives towards modernity, in the complex form of the innovative aspects into the folktale’s language (such as transforming the initiatory, medial and final formulas into innovative ones or changing the hero’s status), of the folktale’s evolution, from folk to a bookish perspective (with particular reference to the texts of Nicolae Filimon, Mihai Eminescu and Ioan Slavici) and it opens the folktale towards modernity in the forms of cartoons, commercials, film adaptations, movies, in just a few words, the image folktale.
Keywords: modernity, innovation, evolution, image folktale.
Cuvinte cheie: modernitate, inovaţie, evoluţie, basm în imagini.