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Fairy Tale
Contributor(s): Teverson, Andrew (Author)
ISBN: 0415616050     ISBN-13: 9780415616058
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $118.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
Dewey: 398.2
LCCN: 2012046371
Series: New Critical Idiom (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.66 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It:

  • explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genre
  • assesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy tale
  • provides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary form
  • engages with the major ideological controversies that have shaped critical and creative approaches to fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • demonstrates that the fairy tale is a highly metamorphic genre that has flourished in diverse media, including oral tradition, literature, film, and the visual arts.