Fairy Tale.
This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy taleprovides a detailed account of the histori...
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Taylor & Francis,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Series editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Three Girls in a Wood
- 1. Definitions
- Who the Folk are You?
- The Types of the Folk Narrative
- Types of the Folk Tale
- Animal Tales and Fables
- Religious Tales
- Formula Tales and Cumulative Tales
- Tales of Fairies and Fairy Land
- Jocular Tales
- The Novelle
- Fairy Tale
- Two Genres?
- Notes
- 2. The emergence of a literary genre: Early Modern Italy to the French salon
- Tom Tit Tot: The Authorisation of Tradition
- The Development of a Genre: Antiquity to Early Modern Italy
- The Salon Fairy Tale in France
- 3. The consolidation of a genre: the Brothers Grimm to Hans Christian Andersen
- German Romanticism and the Brothers Grimm
- Hans Christian Andersen and the Nineteenth-Century Kunstmärchen
- 4. The emergence of fairy-tale theory: Plato to Propp
- Before Grimm
- The Sun Frog: Nineteenth-Century Folkloristics
- The Historic-Geographic Method and the Classification of Märchen
- Vladimir Propp and the Morphology of Fairy Tale
- The Structuralist Critique of Propp's Morphology
- Narrative Skeletons
- 5. Psychoanalysis, history and ideology: twentieth- and twenty-first-century approaches to fairy tale
- Psychoanalysis and Fairy Tale
- Fairy Medicine: Bruno Bettelheim and Reader-Focused Analysis
- Histories From Below: Historicism and the Fairy Tale
- Voice of the People? Marxism and Folk Narrative
- Ideology and the Contemporary Fairy Tale
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.