
A Companion to the Fairy Tale
D.S. Brewer (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2002
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-0-85991-784-1 (ISBN)
Description
Introduction by Derek Brewer.
The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Germany and Russia, as well as India, where it was once claimed that they originated.
The subject of the fairy tale is a controversial one: problems discussed here include the relationship between tales recorded from story-tellers and literary works, the importance of printed works for the spread of the tales, the growth of recent examples with a feminine approach, the spread of popular tales like Cinderella, special types like the cumulative tales, possible effects of TV, and the nature of traditional plots and characters. Above all, we have been concerned with the distribution and long survival of these tales, and the nature of their appeal.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATHARINE BRIGGS FOLKLORE AWARD 2004.
Contributors: GRAHAM ANDERSON, DAVID BLAMIRES, RUTH BOTTIGHEIMER, DEREK BREWER, MARY BROCKINGTON, ANNA CHAUDHRI, HILDA ELLIS DAVIDSON, ROBIN GWYNDAF, BENGT HOLBEK, DAVID HUNT, REIMUND KVIDELAND, PATRICIA LYSAGHT, NEIL PHILIP, JAMES RIORDAN, PAT SCHAEFER, TOM SHIPPEY, JOYCE THOMAS.
The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Germany and Russia, as well as India, where it was once claimed that they originated.
The subject of the fairy tale is a controversial one: problems discussed here include the relationship between tales recorded from story-tellers and literary works, the importance of printed works for the spread of the tales, the growth of recent examples with a feminine approach, the spread of popular tales like Cinderella, special types like the cumulative tales, possible effects of TV, and the nature of traditional plots and characters. Above all, we have been concerned with the distribution and long survival of these tales, and the nature of their appeal.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATHARINE BRIGGS FOLKLORE AWARD 2004.
Contributors: GRAHAM ANDERSON, DAVID BLAMIRES, RUTH BOTTIGHEIMER, DEREK BREWER, MARY BROCKINGTON, ANNA CHAUDHRI, HILDA ELLIS DAVIDSON, ROBIN GWYNDAF, BENGT HOLBEK, DAVID HUNT, REIMUND KVIDELAND, PATRICIA LYSAGHT, NEIL PHILIP, JAMES RIORDAN, PAT SCHAEFER, TOM SHIPPEY, JOYCE THOMAS.
Reviews / Votes
Sometimes refreshingly inventive, sometimes simply confirming the well known, but, in its personal refractions, always stimulating, even for the cognoscenti. * FABULA * Deploy[s] a detailed knowledge of publishing histories in the western world to give a fascinatingly fresh understanding of the lively interpretation of oral, literary and commercial traditions. * SCHOOL LIBRARIAN JOURNAL * Offers an excellent introduction to the work currently and historically being done on fairy tales by folk-lorists. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW * [A] collection to be greatly welcomed, as it brings together a diversity of material and discourse concerning the meaning of 'the fairy tale'.... Allows for a variety of viewpoints to be explored and the result is a deepening and a widening of knowledge and insight into this most eternal of art forms. * BEALOIDEAS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85991-784-1 (9780859917841)
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Content
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales - Derek S Brewer
Creativity and Tradition in the Fairy Tale - Neil Philip
The Ultimate Fairy Tale: Oral Transmission in a Literate World - Ruth Bottigheimer
A Workshop of Editorial Practice: the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmaerchen - David Blamires
Old Tales for New: Finding the First Fairy Tales - Graham Anderson
Helpers and Adversaries in Fairy Tales - Hilda Ellis Davidson ***DECEASED***
'Catch if you can': the Cumulative Tale - Joyce Thomas
Unknown Cinderella: The Contribution of Marian Roalfe Cox to the study of fairy tale - Pat Schaefer
Hans Christian Andersen's Use of Folktales - Bengt Holbek
Collecting and Study of Tales in Scandinavia - Reimund Kvideland
The Wonder Tale in Ireland - Patricia Lysaght
Welsh Folk Narrative and the Fairy Tale - Robin Gwyndaf
The Ossetic Oral Narrative Tradition; Fairy Tales in the Context of other forms of Traditional Literature - Anna Chaudhri
Russian Fairy Tales and their Collectors - James Riordan
Fairy Tale Motifs from the Caucasus - David Hunt
The Fairy Tale in South Asia: the same only different - Mary Brockington
Rewriting the Core: Transformations of the Fairy Tale in Contemporary Writing - T A Shippey
Creativity and Tradition in the Fairy Tale - Neil Philip
The Ultimate Fairy Tale: Oral Transmission in a Literate World - Ruth Bottigheimer
A Workshop of Editorial Practice: the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmaerchen - David Blamires
Old Tales for New: Finding the First Fairy Tales - Graham Anderson
Helpers and Adversaries in Fairy Tales - Hilda Ellis Davidson ***DECEASED***
'Catch if you can': the Cumulative Tale - Joyce Thomas
Unknown Cinderella: The Contribution of Marian Roalfe Cox to the study of fairy tale - Pat Schaefer
Hans Christian Andersen's Use of Folktales - Bengt Holbek
Collecting and Study of Tales in Scandinavia - Reimund Kvideland
The Wonder Tale in Ireland - Patricia Lysaght
Welsh Folk Narrative and the Fairy Tale - Robin Gwyndaf
The Ossetic Oral Narrative Tradition; Fairy Tales in the Context of other forms of Traditional Literature - Anna Chaudhri
Russian Fairy Tales and their Collectors - James Riordan
Fairy Tale Motifs from the Caucasus - David Hunt
The Fairy Tale in South Asia: the same only different - Mary Brockington
Rewriting the Core: Transformations of the Fairy Tale in Contemporary Writing - T A Shippey