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Richard Chase
Oxford Ency of Children's Lit  |  (1904 -- 1988 ), American storyteller and writer. Originally from Alabama, Chase collected folklore in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. | Jan 1, 2008
Jack and the Beanstalk
Oxford Ency of Children's Lit  |  “Jack and the Beanstalk” is a British fairy tale, and the most popular story from a large group of “Jack tales.” Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson ... | Jan 1, 2008
Richard Chase
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  (1904 -- 88 ), American folklorist and storyteller . | Jan 1, 2008
Jack tales
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  a constellation of traditional events and motifs, newly formed in early 18th‐century England, in which a quick‐witted boy, son of a (wealthy Cornish) farmer, meets and vanquishes ... | Jan 1, 2008
Angela Carter
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  (1940 -- 92 ), British fiction writer whose most acclaimed work, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979 ), rewrites classic ... | Jan 1, 2008
Bruno Bettelheim
Oxford Ency of Children's Lit  |  (1903 -- 1990 ), educator and therapist, born in Vienna. He emigrated to the United States after his release from a concentration camp in 1939 . | Jan 1, 2008
France
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  (17th century to present) has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of literary fairy tales. | Jan 1, 2008
Benjamin Tabart
Oxford Ency of Children's Lit  |  (1767 -- 1833 ), London bookseller and proprietor of the Juvenile Library on fashionable New Bond Street. | Jan 1, 2008
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Jackie Torrence
Oxford Ency of Children's Lit  |  (1944 -- 2004 ), one of America's most popular storytellers. In performances and books, especially The Importance of Pot Liquor (1994 ), she describes her childhood with rural ...
North American and Canadian fairy tales
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  1900 to present. Even though it is often dismissed as infantile and non‐serious literature, the fairy tale pervades 20th‐century American culture in a variety of ...
Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Oxford Ency of Children's Lit  |  Each region of the world has a different and distinctive fairy tale tradition, and since it is difficult to summarize the history of the fairy tale for children throughout the ...
Socialization and fairy tales
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  Though fairy tales often seem to be products of pure fantasy, they always have designs on their audiences and readers, defining proper behaviour and enforcing codes of conduct.
Brave Little Tailor
Oxford Ency of Children's Lit  |  This is a trickster tale in which the protagonist's cunning and bravado catapult him from the lowly status of a tailor to that of a warrior in the service of a king.
Approaches to the literary fairy tale
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  The literary fairy tale has been of scholarly interest since the 19th century and it has been discussed from a range of conceptual viewpoints using a variety of methodologies.
‘Ugly Duckling, The’
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales  |  With ‘Den grimme Ælling’ (‘The Ugly Duckling’, 1837 ), Hans Christian Andersen wistfully provided an autobiography in narrative form.