The Invention of Fairy Tales

Bibliographic Data

ID2800577
AuthorsFrancisco Vaz Da Silva (0000-0002-2590-0983, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume123
Issue490
Pages398-425
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jaf.2010.0001
OpenAlexW2007227739
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited28

Ruth B. Bottigheimer has contended that a specific literary man invented the fairy-tale genre less than five centuries ago. This article is a critical examination of her claim. It interrogates the axioms underlying Bottigheimer's proposition, probes the logical consistency of her account, and surveys Bottigheimer's use of empirical evidence. It concludes that while Bottigheimer's proposition is a healthy challenge to folklorists who would disregard literary texts as a matter of principle, her assumptions, reasoning, and conclusions leave much to be desired

Art · Axiom · Consistency (knowledge bases) · Epistemology · Literature · Proposition · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Mathematics · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy

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