Tales of Magic, Tales in Print: On the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm

by Willem de Blécourt

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719083796
• ISBN13: 9780719083792
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"