Fairy tales open onto wishful futures while heroic sagas are dominated by the past

Evidence

In my opinion, it is the structure of the two operations which is instructively different: the one mobilizing a vision of the future in order to determine its return to a now historical present; the other mobilizing, but in some new allegorical way, a vision of the past, or of a certain moment of the past. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 627 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Science fiction uses the future to see its present, nostalgia uses the past — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 627

Broader Connections

• Science fiction uses the future to see its present, nostalgia uses the past #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 627