Tales of Magic, Tales in Print by Yseult De Blecourt - 9780719083792

Tales of Magic, Tales in PrintOn the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm\nAuthor(s): Yseult De Blecourt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9780719083792, 978-0719083792\nSynopsis\nSince 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 an.