17 Rewriting the Core: Transformations of the Fairy Tale in Contemporary Writing

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VI
3. Abbreviations VIII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Interpretation of Fairy Tales 15
6. 2 Creativity and Tradition in the Fairy Tale 39
7. 3 The Ultimate Fairy Tale: Oral Transmission in a Literate World 57
8. 4 A Workshop of Editorial Practice: The Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmarchen 71
9. 5 Old Tales for New: Finding the First Fairy Tales 85
10. 6 Helpers and Adversaries in Fairy Tales 99
11. 7 'Catch if you can': The Cumulative Tale 123
12. 8 Unknown Cinderella: The Contribution of Marian Roalfe Cox to the Study of the Fairy Tale 137
13. 9 Hans Christian Andersen's Use of Folktales 149
14. 10 The Collecting and Study of Tales in Scandinavia 159
15. 11 The Wonder Tale in Ireland 169
16. 12 Welsh Folk Narrative and the Fairy Tale 191
17. 13 The Ossetic Oral Narrative Tradition: Fairy Tales in the Context of Other Forms of Traditional Literature 203
18. 14 Russian Fairy Tales and Their Collectors 217
19. 15 Fairy-Tale Motifs from the Caucasus 227
20. 16 The Fairy Tale in South Asia: The Same Only Different 239
21. 17 Rewriting the Core: Transformations of the Fairy Tale in Contemporary Writing 253
22. General Index 275
23. Index of main tales and tale-types 291