A literary fairy tale is a fairy tale that differs from an oral folktale in that it is written by a single identifiable author, as Jens Tismar defines the form in his own monograph on the genre. Literary fairy tales also differ from oral folktales, which tend to be simple and anonymous, and they occupy a mutable genre that is difficult to define precisely because of its close relationship to oral tradition.
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Notable ExampleBeauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve 1 Defining TraitWritten by a single identifiable author, unlike an oral folktale 1 Defining Trait Connections
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Source Literary fairy tale (Wikipedia)
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The famous literary tale Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve went through a complex relationship with folktales.
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A literary fairy tale is a fairy tale that differs from an oral folktale in that it is written by
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A literary fairy tale is a fairy tale that differs from an oral folktale in that it is written by "a single identifiable author", as defined by Jens Tismar's monograph.
Subgenre Of: Fairy Tale, Lead paragraph, sentence naming the parent genre
A literary fairy tale is a fairy tale that differs from an oral folktale in that it is written by "a single identifiable author", as defined by Jens Tismar's monograph.
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