THE GREAT FAIRY TALE TRADITION:FROM STRAPAROLA AND BROTHERS GRIMM TEXTS CRITICISM

Based on new scholarship and designed specifically for course use，The Great Fairv Tale Tradition： From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm is the indispensable companion for courses focused on the Brothers Grimm and fairy tales in general.As the genre's leading expert， Jack Zipes disproves conventional wisdom regarding the origins of the Grimm fairy-tales， which holds that the Grimms collected their tales from the oral traditions of peasants. This is simply not so. Bather， the Grimms too