Introduction: The European Fairy-Tale Tradition between Orality and Literacy
[...] the availability of Straparola's tales was felicitous evidence for the possible historical interdependence of oral and literate tales. Since the idea that oral tradition alone could sustain a global diffusion of tales was unfathomable in his days, he relied on the migration and translatio...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of American folklore 2010-09, Vol.123 (490), p.373-376 |
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Zusammenfassung: | [...] the availability of Straparola's tales was felicitous evidence for the possible historical interdependence of oral and literate tales. Since the idea that oral tradition alone could sustain a global diffusion of tales was unfathomable in his days, he relied on the migration and translation of the Panchatantra, a classic Indian tale collection, as a support for his Indian origin hypothesis (Benfey 1859). |
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ISSN: | 0021-8715 1535-1882 1535-1882 |
DOI: | 10.1353/jaf.2010.0003 |