Crucial Approaches to Fairy Tales from History Up to Now

Abstract

Article deals with birth of one of the essential genres of literature: “Fairy tales”. A massive data was accumulated about fairy tales over the more decades. Since the existence of folklore as an academic motion in the late eighteenth century, academics have gained a number of approaches and methodologies in order to shed light on various complexions of folk traditions. Folk tales have been analyzed from different angles, ranging from folkloristic, mythological, anthropological, and ethnographic, to psychological, linguistic, literary, sociohistorical, and feminist notions. The sheer abundance of approaches to the study demonstrates essential aspects and the richness of options underlying the tales. The motive of this paper is to display an overview of these approaches and the vital figures, as well as to provide a representative bibliographical list for the aim of assisting further scholarly efforts.