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Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Fairy Tales and Folk Tales   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature, Children's literature studies
Length:
5,901 words
Illustration(s):
2

Each region of the world has a different and distinctive fairy tale tradition, and since it is difficult to summarize

Fairy Tale

Fairy Tale   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
982 words

Part of the universal and lasting appeal of the crime novel is its resonance from childhood. At first glance, this

fairy tales

fairy tales   Reference library

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
Length:
294 words

a literary form, should be distinguished from oral folk tales. The term probably originated in the eighteenth century, appearing for

fairy tales

fairy tales   Reference library

Gillian Avery

The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (19th century)
Length:
532 words

Dickens's favourite reading as a child had been fairy tales and he frequently invoked them in his novels and his occasional writing. In ‘A Christmas Tree’ (...

fairy tales

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The Oxford Companion to the Brontes

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (19th century)
Length:
132 words

The Brontë children, inspired by the *Arabian Nights, James *Ridley's Tales of the Genii, and traditional tales like those told by ...

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