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Folk and fairy tales : a handbook / D.L. Ashliman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashliman, D. L.
- Series:
- Greenwood folklore handbooks 1549-733X
- Greenwood folklore handbooks, 1549-733X
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--History and criticism.
- Fairy tales.
- Fairy tales--Classification.
- Folklore--Classification.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Written by a leading authority, this handbook offers a broad examination of folk and fairy tales as a folklore type. Ashliman looks at tales from around the world and from diverse cultures. The book defines and classifies folk and fairy tales and analyzes a number of examples. It also studies the varied manifestations of folk and fairy tales in literature and culture, and reviews critical and scholarly approaches to this folklore genre.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Definitions and classifications
- Examples and texts
- Scholarship and approaches
- Contexts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313328102
- OCLC:
- 54500313
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