Interpretation of fairy tales / Derek Brewer --
Creativity and tradition in the fairy tale / Neil Philip --
Ultimate fairy tale: oral transmission in a literate world / Ruth Bottigheimer --
Workshop of editorial practice: the Grimms' Kinder-und Hausmärchen / David Blamires --
Old tales for new: finding the first fairy tales / Graham Anderson --
Helpers and adversaries in fairy tales / Hilda Ellis Davidson --
'Catch if you can': the cumulative tale / Joyce Thomas --
Unknown Cinderella: the contribution of Marian Roalfe Cox to the study of fairy tale / Pat Schaefer --
Hans Christian Andersen's use of folktales / Bengt Holbek --
Collecting and study of tales in Scandinavia / Reimund Kvideland --
Wonder tale in Ireland / Patricia Lysaght --
Welsh folk narrative and the fairy tale / Robin Gwyndaf --
Ossetic oral narrative tradition: fairy tales in the context of other forms of traditional literature / Anna Chaudhri --
Russian fairy tales and their collectors / James Riordan --
Fairy-tale motifs from the caucasus / David Hunt --
Fairy tale in South Asia: the same only different / Mary Brockington --
Rewriting the core: transformations of the fairy tale in contemporary writing / Tom Shippey.