Volume 11, Issue 1 (1997)

From the Editor

When Jacques Barchilon founded Merveilles & contes/Marvels & Tales in 1987, he established a much needed central forum for fairy-tale studies. Because the vast interest in folktales and fairy tales exists among diverse disciplines, the countless studies of this broad generic territory are dispersed among widely divergent and unpredictable locations. While the scattered nature of fairy-tale scholarship reflects its rich diversity, it also explains the often parochial, myopic, uninformed, and redundant scholarship that frustrates our progress. It also impedes our ability to map the bibliographic maze of fairy-tale studies and to traverse it with much confidence.