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Richard Thomas Chase [1] [2] (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988) [3] was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore. Biography [ edit ]
Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.
The first collectors to attempt to preserve not only the plot and characters of the tale, but also the style in which they were told, was the Brothers Grimm, collecting German fairy tales; ironically, this meant although their first edition (1812 & 1815) [42] remains a treasure for folklorists, they rewrote the tales in later editions to make ...
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
In many variants, the witch-like character that presents the girls with the choice of casket is replaced by personifications of the twelve months of the year. [3] According to scholar Warren Roberts, this narrative appears in Southeastern Europe, namely, Italy, Greece, [4] Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria.
Because they weren't published in print until the tail end of the 16th century, the origins of the fairy tales we know today are misty. That identical motifs — a spinner's wheel, a looming tower, a seductive enchantress — cropped up in Italy, France, Germany, Asia and the pre-Colonial Americas allowed warring theories to spawn.
In William Shakespeare's Richard III, the title character uses the phrase "Bear her my true love's kiss" in act 4, scene 4. [ 6 ] In 1812, Children's and Household Tales , written by the Brothers Grimm , included the concept of a magical true love's kiss from the prince to awaken the princess from her 100-year slumber in their adaptation of ...
Richard Mercer Dorson (March 12, 1916 – September 11, 1981) was an American folklorist, professor, and director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. Dorson has been called the "father of American folklore " [ 1 ] and "the dominant force in the study of folklore".