The Spun Gold: A Narrative Review of the Fairy Tale from Straparola's Nights to the Tale's Tellers
Year: 2026
Type: review
Abstract: The fairy tale---the literature whose subject is the spun gold and whose lesson is the wonder's survival---moved from Straparola's 1550 nights and Basile's 1634 Pentamerone through Perrault's 1697 Histories, the Grimms's 1812 Kinder- und Hausmärchen, and Andersen's 1835 Eventyr to Lang's 1889 colors, Propp's 1928 morphology, and Zipes's 1979 spell-breaking. This article presents a narrative review of that arc's canonical line: Straparola's 1550 Venice, Basile's 1634 Naples, Perrault's 1697 Paris, the Grimms's 1812 Berlin, Andersen's 1835 Copenhagen, Lang's 1889 Blue, Propp's 1958 Texas morphology, Bettelheim's 1976 enchantment, Zipes's 1979 Heinemann, Tatar's 1987 hard facts, Warner's 1994 tellers, and Haase's 2004 encyclopedia. The review is organized around three themes: the nights's invention and the court's polish, in which the Straparola's frame and the Perrault's morals literary the oral's; the nursery's and the nation's era, in which the Grimms's collection, the Andersen's invention, and the Lang's colors domesticated the tales; and the morphology's and the tellers's era, in which the Propp's functions, the Bettelheim's enchantments, the Zipes's spells, and the Warner's tellers carried the tales into the criticism's. It is concluded that the fairy tale is the literature's oldest wardrobe---and that its arc is the wonder's reading from the spun gold to the tale's tellers.
Authors: Revista, Zen, LITERATURE, 10
Institution: Faculdades Guarulhos
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204764564