Publication

2009 - University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

125,000 words, Guess

Page Count

500 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL27120368M
  • ISBN-139780472033799
  • ISBN-100472033794
  • OCLC Control Number320188398
  • Better World Books9780472033799

Classifications

  • DDC398
  • LCCGR550.Z55 2009

Description

"Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the written and oral sources. Ziolkowski offers interpretation of a sampling of the tales in order to sketch the complex connections that existed in the Middle Ages between oral folktales and their written equivalents, the variety of uses to which the writers applied the stories, and the diverse relationships between the medieval texts and the expressions of the same tales in the "classic" fairy tale collections of the nineteenth century"--Back of book.

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