![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever their place in the canon, fairy tales originate from the oral tradition they were passed down from one generation to the next by word of mouth, both to entertain and to teach life lessons.Īuthor Steven Swann Jones traces the evolution of the fairy tale from Boccaccio's highly-regarded Decameron, written in the 1300s, to Maurice Sendak's 1963 illustrated children's classic, Where the Wild Things Are. In contrast to Carter's view, an experienced librarian at a major metropolitan library informed this writer that the library does not consider fairy tales literature and shelves them on a separate floor from works by major fiction writers. Angela Carter's view on fairy tales was that they were on the same "cultural level" as classic works like Paradise Lost. The identity of the fairy tale as literature is hotly contested. They are the subject of intense and extensive academic discourse at the same time as they are animated and commercialized for children by major production companies. ![]() Fairy tales occupy a unique niche in the literary world. ![]()
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