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Once Upon a Time

May 18, 2009

…scholars debated the origins of fairy tales. Did they really spring from oral folk tradition? That debate, which many say was settled in the 19th century, hasn’t completely died yet, but there’s a lot more going on in fairy-tale scholarship now. Read about it in my latest article for the Chronicle Review.

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