Resumen de The irresistible fairy tale: : the cultural and social history of a genre
Throughout Tales of Magic, Tales in Print, de blécourt defines his approach as historical, test- ing existing postulates about oral transmission against the forms in which individual tales have been expressed over centuries, and searching relevant texts for storytellers' sources: "The mo- tif of the lie that becomes truth has a substantial history in a number of [medieval] saints' leg- ends. in this particular case, however, it is more relevant that both the passage with the healing fruits and the rabbit herd had appeared in a story in the late eighteenth-century collection Ammenmärchen" (p. 43). his "historical approach recognizes the prox- imity of the recorded oral texts to prints" and tries to establish a "provisional" view of "textual changes and dispersions" (p. 60). [...]de blé- court pursues and tests the reasoning of compet- ing paradigms, weighing their differing conclu- sions against probability and reasonability, with expository footnotes extending textual discus- sions, just as his introduction of Dutch links in the chain of print dissemination enlarges the purview for fairy tale scholars (see p. 63).\n 180).
