Fairy Tales and Society : : Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm / / Ruth B. Bottigheimer.

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• HerausgeberIn: Bottigheimer, Ruth B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 4 illus.

This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, fairy tales function as a paradigm both for understanding society and for developing individual behavior and personality.A few of the topics covered in this volume: oral narration in contemporary society; madness and cure in the 1001 Nights; the female voice in folklore and fairy tale; change in narrative form; tests, tasks, and trials in the Grimms' fairy tales; and folklorists as agents of nationalism. The subject of methodology is discussed by Torborg Lundell, Stven Swann Jones, Hans-Jorg Uther, and Anna Tavis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Oral Narration in Contemporary North America -- 2. Madness and Cure in the Thousand and One Nights -- 5. To Spin a Yarn: The Female Vice in Folklore and Fairy Tale -- 4. Telling Tales -Spreading Tales: Change in the Communicative Forms of a Popular Genre -- 5. Born Yesterday: Heroes in the Grimms' Fairy Tales -- 6. Silenced Women in the Grimms' Tale.J: The "Fit" Between Fairy Tales and Society in Their Historical Context -- 7. Folklorists as Agents of Nationalism: Asturian Legends and the Problem of Identity -- 8. Gender-Related Biaded in the Type and Motif Indexed of Aarne and Thompdon -- 9. The Structure of "Snow White" -- 10. The Encyclopedia of the Folktale -- 11. Fairy Tales from a Semiotic Perspective -- 12. Fairy Tales and Psychotherapy -- 13. The Criminological Significance of the Grimms' Fairy Tales -- 14. Feminist Approached to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales -- 15. Marxists and the Illumination of Folk and Fairy Tales -- 16. Past and Predent Folkloristic Narrator Research -- 17. Fairy Tales from a Folkloristic Perspective -- 18. The Grimms and the German Obsession with Fairy Tales -- 19. The "Utterly Hessian" Fairy Tales by "Old Marie": The End of a Myth -- Contributors -- Index