A Companion to the Fairy Tale

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This latest collection of fine essays brings a new dimension to the existing body of recent scholarship. [...] This collection of essays truly enhances what we already know about the phenomenon of fairy tales by tackling core issues raised by the exploration of the genre, and by suggesting new perspectives and insights based on amazingly rich global research. * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING * Sometimes refreshingly inventive, sometimes simply confirming the well known, but, in its personal refractions, always stimulating, even for the cognoscenti. * FABULA * Once upon a time, there was a clever, nuanced book. * THE FORTEAN TIMES * A remarkable store of incisive commentary, a wise review of relevant primary and secondary literature, a reminder to folklorists and readers alike of how varied this field is, and at the price a real bargain. * REFERENCE REVIEWS * 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 *