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Greenhaven Press Companion to Literary Movements and Genres
Literary Movements and Genres - Fairy Tales
Most fairy tales have folk origin, contain improbable events and have a whimsical, satirical or moralist character. The authors in this text discuss the characteristics of the genre, study the various writers and collections, analyze specific fairy tales, and explore the influence of fairy tales have had on literature.
223 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 2000
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June 2, 2015
I have to say that this book is filled with everything you could want to know about the genre of fairy tales; the writers (Perrault, Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Anderson and Frank Stockton); analyzing fairy tales especially the "American" way which is unfortunate. What surprised me was the section on "Influence on Literature -- Charles Dickens and the Fairy Tale as social commentary by Michael Kotzin.
"The joy which fairy tales brought the child Charles Dickens is indicated in the articles he later wrote. In "A Christmas Tree" he remembers Little Red Riding Hood as "my first love." I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss."
"Fairy tales are appropriate for Dickensian satire: they traditionally take the side of the underdog against authority. And the Victorian view of them made them appropriate for other Dickensian purposes as well, in speeches, articles, and fiction. The same kind of valuable imagination entertainment that Dickens thought fairy tales themselves could be provided by novels which used fair tales. Like fairy tales, such novels could provide the moral improvement which comes when a man's heart is touched."
"Dickens himself seldom preached his lessons. As a journalist and novelist, he wrote to amuse his readers and to do what he wanted done: to stimulate their imaginations."
This book was published by "The GREENHAVEN PRESS COMPANION TO Literary Movements and Genres."
"The joy which fairy tales brought the child Charles Dickens is indicated in the articles he later wrote. In "A Christmas Tree" he remembers Little Red Riding Hood as "my first love." I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss."
"Fairy tales are appropriate for Dickensian satire: they traditionally take the side of the underdog against authority. And the Victorian view of them made them appropriate for other Dickensian purposes as well, in speeches, articles, and fiction. The same kind of valuable imagination entertainment that Dickens thought fairy tales themselves could be provided by novels which used fair tales. Like fairy tales, such novels could provide the moral improvement which comes when a man's heart is touched."
"Dickens himself seldom preached his lessons. As a journalist and novelist, he wrote to amuse his readers and to do what he wanted done: to stimulate their imaginations."
This book was published by "The GREENHAVEN PRESS COMPANION TO Literary Movements and Genres."
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