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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452595103321

Autore

Teverson Andrew

Titolo

Fairy tale / / Andrew Teverson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-415-61606-9

0-203-36610-7

1-134-10570-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

The new critical idiom

Disciplina

398.2

Soggetti

Fairy tales - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Definitions -- The emergence of a literary genre, Italy and France -- The consolidation of a genre Grimm and Andersen -- Critical and conceptual approaches -- Psychoanalysis, history and ideology -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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 genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy taleprovides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary formengages with the major ideological controversies that have shaped critical and creative approaches to fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesdemonstrates that the fairy tale is a highly metamorphic genre that has flourished in diver