Once Upon a Time This work is an attempt to condense the basic premise of most folktales into one all-encompassing concept. Before the nineteenth-century, pre-capitalist folktales or “Volksmärchen” were full of righteous aristocrats fending off evil, magic-wielding misanthropes. By the nineteenth-century, and with the rise of the middle-classes, these tales morphed into the bourgeois … Continue reading Once Upon a Time