The fairy tale: the magic mirror of imagination
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The fairy tale: the magic mirror of imagination
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The fairy tale: the magic mirror of imagination
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One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of folklorist and critics to…
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.
The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, rarely to return. In this book, Barbara Fass Leavy studies the meani…