Abstract
Time and space (by Bakhtin "chronotope") in fairy tales, and especially their symbolism, have attracted many folklorists for many years. From the moment the literary theory became more interested in space, the poetics of space (topology) gained its place on the top of attention and overshadowed the poetics of time.
Poetics of space is also a topic of my dissertation, which is concentrated inter alia from the comparative point of view on the research of space in fairy tales. These are primarily the stories, which occur both in the repertoire of K.
J. Erben, and the Brothers Grimm, the leading representatives of the storytellers in the Czech Republic and Germany.
The core of the work is own concept of the relationship between the poetics of space and the poetics of literary works and of the rules and laws in the specific structure of the fabulous space. As part of this was to clarify the issue of individual parts of a space and there, where the previous research has not yet offered the sufficient terminology, our own terminology was created.
Original concept of issues in my work combines (especially in the case of comparison of these fairy tales) with Propp's approach to fairy tales, which has a long tradition in the Czech Republic. Comparative approach has contributed to trace the spatial invariant (matches) and vice versa narrative modification and variation (differences) within the individual stories.
From these findings were derived general rules of the structure of space in these tales, and many other interesting facts associated with the mentioned space (f. e. within the problematic term "realm of the Dead").