Tales of magic, tales in print - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of magic, tales in print write by Willem De Blecourt. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Tales of magic, tales in print available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.
Tales of Magic, Tales in Print
Tales of Magic, Tales in Print - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of Magic, Tales in Print write by Willem de Blécourt. This book was released on 2012. Tales of Magic, Tales in Print available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Irresistible Fairy Tale
The Irresistible Fairy Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irresistible Fairy Tale write by Jack Zipes. This book was released on 2012. The Irresistible Fairy Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and much more.
Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales
Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales write by Graham Anderson. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Snow White, The Frog Prince and a host of others where the similarities to familiar ‘modern’ versions far outweigh the differences. Here we find Cinderella as a courtesan, Snow White coming to a tragic end or an innocent heroine murdering her sisters. We find an emperor’s new clothes where the flatterers compare him to Alexander the Great, or a pair of adulterers caught in a magic trap. Tantalising fragments suggest that there is more to be discovered: we can point to a Sleeping Beauty where the girl takes on the green colouring of the surrounding wood, or we encounter a Rumpelstiltskin connected to a mystery cult. The overall picture suggests a much richer texture of popular tale as a fascinating new legacy of antiquity. This volume breaks down the traditional barriers between Classical Mythology and the fairy tale, and will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on the history of fairy tales and folklore.
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales write by Maria Tatar. This book was released on 2014-12-11. The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature. As the simple expression of complex thought, fairy tales have increasingly become the focus of intense scholarly inquiry. In this Companion, international scholars from a range of academic disciplines explore the historical origins, cultural dissemination and psychological power of fairy stories, and offer model interpretations of tales from a variety of traditions and sources, including Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and the One Thousand and One Nights. Rather than disenchanting the stories, the essays in this volume broaden our understanding of them and deepen our appreciation of the cultural work they do. A chronology and guide to further reading contribute to the usefulness of the volume for students and scholars.
