Includes bibliographical references (pages 445 - 479) and indexes.
Folktales in medieval Latin poetry -- Between sacred legend and folktale : a whale of a story about a tenth-century fisherman -- A cautionary tale : Little Red Riding Hood in the 1020s -- True lies and the growth of wonder : an eleventh-century "Little Claus and Great Claus" -- The wonder of the Turnip tale (circa 1200) -- The reorientation of the Donkey tale (circa 1200) -- Conclusion : sadly never after.
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"Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the written and oral sources. Ziolkowski offers interpretation of a sampling of the tales in order to sketch the complex connections that existed in the Middle Ages between oral folktales and their written equivalents, the variety of uses to which the writers applied the stories, and the diverse relationships between the medieval texts and the expressions of the same tales in the "classic" fairy tale collections of the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
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