Folk fairy tales vs Art Fairy tale

(universal setting, unknown authorship) (umbrella term, longer, known authorship)

Fairy tale – subgenre of folk tales

Classification:

1. Animal tales
2. Wonder tales (fairy tales)
3. Porquoi tales (why)
4. Cumulative tales – repetition (3 little pigs)
5. Noodlehead tales (pussy in boots)

Features of a folk tale:

- A formulatic opening
- A quasi-oral quality
- Medieval setting
- Reliance on poetic justice
- The happy ending
- Characters are stereotypes
- Repetitive structure
- Formulas – for mothers to repeat it to the kid

Subgenres:

- Myths
- Legends
- Fables

Minogenres:

- aetiology
- jest – mocking historical figures
- nonsense
- brulesque
- animal tales

Motifs:

- Love
- Saving
- Journey
- Mission
Early folk tales : Robin Hood, Jack the Giantkills

16th century Italy:

 Gianfrancesco Straparola
 Giambattista Basile

17th century France:

Marie Catherine d´Aulnoy – „contes des fées“

Charles Perrault – Tales and stories of the past with morals

Tales of mother Goose 1729

Robert Samber – translated Perraults fairy tales in 1729

Puritans
Sarah Trimmer 1741-1810

1765- John Newbery – The history of little Goody two – shoes

Romantic movement
Interest in folklore

The brothers Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm: Kinder und Hausmärchen 1812

Translated as the cultivation of art fairy tales

Baron Fouque´s Undine – fantastic/Gothic

Hoffmann