Fairy tales from before fairy tales : the medieval Latin past of wonderful lies /
When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2009, ©2007.
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Table des matières:
- Folktales in medieval Latin poetry
- Between sacred legend and folktale : a whale of a story about a tenth-century fisherman
- A cautionary tale : Little Red Riding Hood in the 1020s
- True lies and the growth of wonder : an eleventh-century "Little Claus and Great Claus"
- The wonder of the Turnip tale (ca. 1200)
- The reorientation of the Donkey tale (ca. 1200)
- Conclusion : sadly never after.