Fairy tales are a large part of popular culture all over the world, yet some of then are also considered to be great literary classics. While most people can easily recall some childhood fairy tales and have some notion of what fairy tales are, very few of these people can picture fairy tales as the subject of literary criticism and scholarly commentary or analysis. The general perception is that if fairy tales are products of the literary imagination, they are simple narratives that do not require critical study. Scholars became interested in fairytale, because of apparent ties between those stories and myths and legends.
The Grimm Brothers are mostly famous for their collection of fairytales, but they can also be accredited with founding the study of fairytales as a scholarly field. Jacob and Wilhem Grimm began the study of fairy tales as descending from ancient sources, and therefore as providing information about the past of nations and peoples and as preserving remnants of......
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