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Tales of magic, tales in print

On the genealogy of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm

By: Willem De Blecourt

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Tales of magic, tales in print

On the genealogy of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm

By: Willem De Blecourt

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 Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.

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Manchester University Press

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1526162822

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Tales of magic, tales in print

On the genealogy of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm

By: Willem De Blecourt

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

By: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

By: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers

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270

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A&C Black

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0485891069

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9780485891065

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 6

The Twentieth Century

By: Willem de Blecourt,Ronald Hutton,Jean La Fontaine

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 6

The Twentieth Century

By: Willem de Blecourt,Ronald Hutton,Jean La Fontaine

Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.

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0485890062

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9780485890068

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Tales of magic, tales in print

Tales of magic, tales in print

Tales of magic, tales in print

Tales of magic, tales in print

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 6

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 6

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