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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100415616069
ISBN-139780415616065
eBay Product ID (ePID)102967839
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFairy Tale
Publication Year2013
SubjectFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Children's & Young Adult Literature, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorAndrew Teverson
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesThe New Critical Idiom Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height3.2 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2012-046371
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal398.2
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Definitions 2. The Establishment of a Literary Genre 3. Critical Methodologies 4. Fairy Tales and Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 5. An Adaptable Genre: Multi-Media Fairy Tale Conclusion
SynopsisThis 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., This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale.