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Well, that is the heart of the debate. Folklorists like Satu Apo are pretty convinced these particular tales are literary creations, not compilations of oral tr
by buovjaga 8y ago
Well, that is the heart of the debate. Folklorists like Satu Apo are pretty convinced these particular tales are literary creations, not compilations of oral tradition.
Perrault's Sleeping Beauty was actually a retelling of this literary fairy tale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun,_Moon,_and_Talia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun,_Moon,_and_Talia
- danaris 8y agoBut if you follow the link to the Wikipedia page for the Pentamerone, the collection in which Sun, Moon, and Talia appears, you get this: > The stories in the Pentamerone were collected by Basile and published posthumously It's clear, once again, that while he may have embellished them for publication, he was not creating them out of whole cloth, but collecting them from folk tales in his area.
- buovjaga 8y agoIt is far from clear, which is why I am pointing out that some folklorists think it does not come from folk tradition. Regarding Basile, see long argument starting from page 75 in this book: http://www.academia.edu/19594654/A_FAIRY_TALE_NEW_HISTORY_Ruth_Bottingheimer http://www.academia.edu/19594654/A_FAIRY_TALE_NEW_HISTORY_Ru... Chapter 4: The Two Inventors of Fairy Tale Tradition Giambattista Basile (1634–1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553)