Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford".
To further support the CHLG, Rowling auctioned one of seven handwritten and illustrated copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a series of fairy tales referred to in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
This talking-animal tale — the title refers to the strata of wolf society, which are broken down in the name of true love between an alpha female and an omega male — has old-fashioned backgrounds that occasionally achieve a touch of grandeur, but that's about the best that can be said for it.
The fairy tale her title refers to is "Cinderella": Terenzio grew up in a working-class Bronx neighborhood, and her book is a classic "Bright Lights, Big City" story of a young striver making it in the glamorous world of celebrity and publishing (she met Kennedy just as his magazine, George, was starting up in 1994, and worked for him until his death in a 1999 plane crash).
Some folklorists prefer to use the German term Märchen or "wonder tale" to refer to the genre over fairy tale, a practice given weight by the definition of Thompson in his 1977 [1946] edition of The Folktale: "a tale of some length involving a succession of motifs or episodes.
Many movies have paid homage to "Beauty and the Beast" -- most spectacularly "King Kong" (1933), where the tale is referred to numerous times in the dialogue.
Examples are fables, fairy tales, folktales, sagas, epics, legends, and etiologic tales (which refer to causes or explain why a thing is the way it is).
(The film's title refers to an apocryphal tale tying Nietzsche's final breakdown to his witnessing the beating of a horse).
Tales (as everyone refers to it) is sort of a combination of graduate school, summer camp, and a party for ultra-marathon tipplers.
She is consumed by fairy tales and constantly refers to them, finding them useful metaphors for all that life throws at her.
