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Fairy tales from before fairy tales : the medieval Latin past of wonderful lies /

Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956-

Fairy tales from before fairy tales : the medieval Latin past of wonderful lies / Jan M. Ziolkowski. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007. - xii, 500 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 (ca. 1200) -- The reorientation of the Donkey tale (ca. 1200) -- Conclusion : sadly never after.

9780472115686 (cloth : alk. paper) 0472115685 (cloth : alk. paper)

2006025452


Fairy tales--History and criticism.
Tales--Classification.

GR550 / .Z55 2007

398.209

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