Fairy tales : a new history /
This work overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission. Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, N.Y. :
Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press,
©2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781441608697 1441608699 1438425333 9781438425337 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Why a new history of fairy tales?
- Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk as creator, the book as source
- The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers : Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors
- The two inventors of fairy tale tradition : Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553)
- A new history.