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

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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 Tal

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Focusing on the collections of the Brothers Grimm, Willem de Blcourt admirably challenges this view, adducing an impressive amount of scholarly research in his new book, Tales of Magic, Tales in Print. -- .

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Willem de Blcourt is an historical anthropologist and independent researcher, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam