Fairy-tale origins, fairy-tale dissemination, and folk narrative theory

Abstract

This article attempts to present a credible alternative theoretical structure for understanding the origins and dissemination of European fairy tales. In this new theoretical structure, print processes and print culture are central to the creation and the dissemination of European fairy tales; the theses that conclude this article provide four rational, transparent, and documentable statements about the origins and dissemination of European fairy tales. © Walter de Gruyter Berlin.