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A Companion to the Fairy Tale.
Introduction is given by Derek Brewer. The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
2003.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales; 2. Creativity and Tradition in the Fairy Tale; 3. The Ultimate Fairy Tale: Oral Transmission in a Literate World; 4. A Workshop of Editorial Practice: The Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen; 5. Old Tales for New: Finding the First Fairy Tales; 6. Helpers and Adversaries in Fairy Tales; 7. 'Catch if you can': The Cumulative Tale; 8. Unknown Cinderella: The Contribution of Marian Roalfe Cox to the Study of Fairy Tale; 9. Hans Christian Andersen's Use of Folktales
- 10. The Collecting and Study of Tales in Scandinavia11. The Wonder Tale in Ireland; 12. Welsh Folk Narrative and the Fairy Tale; 13. The Ossetic Oral Narrative Tradition: Fairy Tales in the Context of Other Forms of Traditional Literature; 14. Russian Fairy Tales and Their Collectors; 15. Fairy-Tale Motifs from the Caucasus; 16. The Fairy Tale in South Asia: The Same Only Different.; 17. Rewriting the Core: Transformations of the Fairy Tale in Contemporary Writing; General Index; Index of main tales and tale-types; Copyright; Titles of Related Interest