TY - BOOK AU - Bottigheimer,R.B. TI - Fairy tales and society: illusion, allusion, and paradigm SN - 0812280210 AV - DUCE GR550.F25 PY - 1986/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Fairy tales KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, fairy tales function as a paradigm both for understanding society and for developing individual behavior and personality ER -