Andrew Teverson
Fairy Tale
Hardcover
(Routledge July 12, 2013)
, 1 edition
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.
- Series
- The New Critical Idiom
- ISBN
- 0415616050 / 9780415616058
- Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 10.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 0.8 in.
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