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Fairy Tale

Intro

The English words “ fairy tale” can be traced to Madame d’Aulnoy, who termed her works “contes de fees”(fairy tales).She originated the term that is now generally used for the genre.

The words "fairy tale" have different expressions along with the context in different situations. For example, it refers to short stories which has typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes,goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. In less technical context, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending"(a happy ending) or "fairy tale romance"(though not all fairy tales end happily).Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any farfetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true.

To avoid this endless explanation and definition of "fairy tale" appear in this short Encyclopedia, here we only discuss “fairy tale” based on Germany scholar Max Lüthi’s description in his book <The Fairytale as Art Form and the Portrait of Man>:

Definition

There is always an ambigurous bound between "fairy tale" and " folk tale"(or folk story).

Divisity

European/Oriental

References

01.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale_(disambiguation)

02.http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%A5%E8%A9%B1

03.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_d%27Aulnoy

04.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp

05.Max Lüthi The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man

06.陳正治 童話寫作研究