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Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies

By Jan M. Ziolkowski
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By Jan M. Ziolkowski
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When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, 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 interpretations of a sampling of the tales in order to...

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LiteratureSocial SciencesLiterary CriticismFolklore & MythologyGenres & Literary FormsFables, Fairy Tales, & Folk Tales - Literary CriticismFairy TalesFairy tales->History and criticism