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Article: Once upon a time, there was an anthology.(Features)(Chilren's Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 25, 2000
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THE OXFORD COMPANION TO FAIRY TALES Edited by Jack Zipes Oxford University Press 601 pp., $49.95
As familiar as childhood, as strange as dreams, fairy tales are easily comprehended by the young and the naive, yet have also attracted the assiduous attention of scholars and academics. For better or worse, Freudians, Jungians, folklorists, structuralists, formalists, historicists, Marxists, and feminists have all been busy explicating, analyzing, classifying, and deconstructing fairy tales.
Although they got their start in the oral tradition, fairy tales went on to become a noteworthy part of written literature. It is the literary fairy tale in particular ...