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Challenges of Folktale and Fairy-Tale Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Fabula, ISSN: 0014-6242, Vol: 57, Issue: 1-2, Page: 73-85
2016
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Fascicle by fascicle, volume by volume, over the course of the last forty years, the Enzyklopädie des Märchens (EM) has significantly changed the landscape of folktale and fairy-tale studies. Accompanying the publication of the EM, parallel developments reflected and complemented its influential agenda to promote historical and comparative folk-narrative research. The history of these developments not only illuminates the vitality and interdisciplinary importance that contemporary folktale and fairy-tale studies have achieved; it also helps to identify and explain the challenges we face as we contemplate current research and imagine the field's future. This paper reviews critical developments of the last forty years and then considers how we might come to grips with the ensuing challenge of sustaining, in a responsible way, the comparative study of folktales and fairy tales in a global context.

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