Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales

by Ziolkowski, Jan M.

• ISBN13: 9780472033799
• ISBN10: 0472033794
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-24
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the written and oral sources. Ziolkowski offers interpretations of a sampling of the tales in order to sketch the complex connections that existed in the Middle Ages between oral folktales and their written equivalents, the variety of uses to which the writers applied the stories, and the diverse relationships between the medieval texts and the expressions of the same tales in the "classic" fairy tale collections of the nineteenth century. In so doing, Ziolkowski explores stories that survive in both versions associated with, on the one hand, such standards of the nineteenth-century fairy tale as the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Carlo Collodi and, on the other, medieval Latin, demonstrating that the literary fairy tale owes a great debt to the Latin literature of the medieval period. Jan M. Ziolkowskiis the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.

Author Biography

Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Folktales in Medieval Latin Poetry	p. 16
Between Sacred Legend and Folktale: A Whale of a Story about a Tenth-Century Fisherman	p. 65
A Cautionary Tale: Little Red Riding Hood in the 1020s	p. 93
True Lies and the Growth of Wonder: An Eleventh-Century ôLittle Claus and Great Clausö	p. 125
The Wonder of The Turnip Tale (ca. 1200)	p. 164
The Reorientation of The Donkey Tale (ca. 1200)	p. 200
Conclusion: Sadly Never After	p. 231
Appendix
one Man Swallowed by Fish (ATU 1889G)	p. 241
The ôGreat Fishö in the Book of Jonah (Rheims-Douay)	p. 241
Letaldus of Micy, About a Certain Fisherman Whom a Whale Swallowed	p. 243
Rudolph Erich Raspe, Baron Munchausen: Narrative of His Marvellous Travels (1785), Chapter 8	p. 248
Hisperica famina B, Lines 157-217, and Letaldus's Poem: Source and Influence, or Parallels?	p. 249
Truths and Lies	p. 253
ôThe Wish-Goatö (ôWunschbockö; ATU 1960A)	p. 253
ôLantfrid and Cobboö (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 6)	p. 255
ôModus Liebinc,ö or ôThe Song to the Liebo Tuneö (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 14; ATU 1362 ôThe Snow-Childô)	p. 257
ôModus florum,ö or ôThe Song to the Flowers Tuneö (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 15; ATU 852 ôThe Lying Contestô)	p. 160
ôThe False Prophet and Archbishop Heriger of Mainz: Otherworldly Voyages to Hell and Heaven, This-Worldly Punishmentö (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 24)	p. 261
ôThe Priest in the Pitö (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 35)	p. 262
ôLittle Johnö (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 42)	p. 263
One-Ox: The Rich and the Poor Peasant (ATU 1535)	p. 264
One-Ox (Unibos)	p. 264
The Story of the Peasant Campriano (Storia di Campriano contadino)	p. 285
Straparola, ôFather Scarpaficoö (Le piacevoli notti, Night 1, Fable 3)	p. 295
Brothers Grimm, ôAbout the Tailor Who Became Rich Quicklyö (BP 2:1-3)	p. 301
Brothers Grimm, ôThe Little Farmerö (ôDas Büdeö [KHM 61])	p. 303
ôKibitzö	p. 307
Hans Christian Andersen, ôLittle Claus and Great Clausö	p. 311
List of Folk-Literature Motifs in One-Ox	p. 320
The Turnip Tale: Two Presents for the King (ATU 1689A)	p. 322
The Turnip Tale [1] (Rapularius ôfrivolaö)	p. 322
The Turnip Tile [2] (Rapularius ôprodigaö)	p. 331
Brothers Grimm, ôThe Turnipö (ôDie Rübeö [KHM 146])	p. 339
The Donkey Tale: The Ass (ATU 430)	p. 341
The Donkey Tale (Asinarius)	p. 341
ôThe Story of Vikram&abar;ditya's Birthö	p. 350
Brothers Grimm, ôThe Donkeyö (ôDas Eseleinö [KHM 144])	p. 353
Straparola, ôKing Pigö (Le piacevoli notti, Night 2, Fable 1)	p. 355
Btothers Grimm, ôHans My Hedgehogö (ôHans Mein Igelö [KHM 108])	p. 361
Notes	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 445
Indexes	p. 481
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