Once Upon a Time: The Author Is Dead! Long Live the All Mighty Quill!

• Main Authors: Lidia-Mihaela Necula, Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Casa Cărții de Știință 2020-12-01
• Series: Cultural Intertexts
• Subjects: death of the author; literary emancipation; scriptor; postmodernism; fairy-tale; tv series
• Online Access: https://cultural-intertexts.webnode.com/_files/200000393-196b2196b5/122-133.%20Necula.%20Gheorghiu.%20Once%20Upon%20a%20Time.%20The%20Author%20is%20Dead.pdf

Perchance the world’s greatest advertisement of fairy-tales, Once Upon a Time, the fantasy drama television series featured on Netflix, goes past its entertaining marketing strategies and brings to the fore one of the longest enduring and most polemical poststructuralist theories, i.e. the death of the author and the literary emancipation of characters. The aim of the current paper is to prove, above anything else, that the primary object of Once Upon a Time, the TV series can be construed as one of telling the story of the characters’ literary emancipation and the inherent death of the author.