I Dream of Being a Beautiful Princess but I Am a Socialist Girl: The Psychological and Ideological Aspects of the Illustrations for the Fairy Tale “Cinderella” in Bulgaria in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I suggest that you put illustrations 1-3 in chronological order.
Author Response
Thank you very much for your comment - I will definitely rearrange illustrations from1 to 3 in chronological order.
Reviewer 2 Report
In order to be published the paper needs to apply a scientific/scholarly method of study folklore in general and fairy-tales in particular.
The most influential scholarly theory in that regard is the semiotic one. It is totally absent in the current article that looks like a learned journalistic essay almost completely lacking a valid scholarly methodology. The author needs to submit a profoundly revised paper with evident scholarly structure and methodology. In order to to that the author needs to attentively read the published books (2) by Vladimir Propp. The another needs to follow the discussion between Claude Levi-Strauss and Propp about the fairy tale. The author needs to create and apply their own theory of folkloric analysis of fairy-tales based on clear structural method as based in the work of Alan Dundes. Without profound study of Propp, Levi-Strauss and Dundes the paper can not be accepted for publication. The author needs to present a new semiotic theory of fairy-tale research by applying it to the chosen topic of Bulgarian subject matter.
Author Response
Thank you very much for your comments - I will definitely revise my research emphasizing on clarifying the structure of the text and the methodology. The proposed analyzes of the studies of Vladimir Propp and Claude Levi-Strauss will also be included. However, I would like to draw attention to the fact that the paper does not focus on either oral or written fairytales (folklore analysis), but on the accompanying illustrations and their specific impact on the readers/viewers (visual analysis) - a topic that is not an object of interest by the authors mentioned above. So the analysis of their works will be adequate to the main idea of the submitted research.
