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Article: The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
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The Folk behind the Fairy Tale The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 640 pages, 70 illustrations, $24.50 paperback.
In this volume, Jack Zipes organises a tremendous amount of information about the Western fairy tale tradition in an encyclopedic format. The sixty-nine contributors are scholars of English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, comparative, and children's literature, as well as folklore, theater, library sciences, and music. The majority of the entries discuss the people who have created literary fairy tales and other artistic works, such as authors, illustrators, filmmakers, composers, choreographers, as well as ...