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By Jan M. Ziolkowski

When did fairy stories commence? What qualifies as a fairy story? Is a real fairy story oral or literary? Or is a fairy story decided no longer by means of sort yet by means of content material? to respond to those and different questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not just offers a finished review of the theoretical debates approximately fairy story origins yet contains an in depth dialogue of the connection of the fairy story to either the written and oral resources. Ziolkowski deals interpretations of a sampling of the stories to be able to comic strip the advanced connections that existed within the heart a while among oral folktales and their written equivalents, the range of makes use of to which the writers utilized the tales, and the varied relationships among the medieval texts and the expressions of an identical stories within the "classic" fairy story collections of the 19th century. In so doing, Ziolkowski explores tales that live to tell the tale in either models linked to, at the one hand, such criteria of the nineteenth-century fairy story because the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Carlo Collodi and, at the different, medieval Latin, demonstrating that the literary fairy story owes an exceptional debt to the Latin literature of the medieval period.

Jan M. Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.

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