Escritores del siglo XIX frente al cuento folklórico

Abstract

In nineteenth-century, short story was developed intensively as a genre. Frecuently Spanish writers too k folktales as a starting point to create their stories. This paper explains briefly the works of first literary authors that collected folktales in Spain and distinguishs the first attitudes adopted by the authors who cultivated and recreated folktales, showing how the different judgements abaut folktales explain the different degrees of recreation.