| Description |
xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lutz Röhrich -- Oral narration in contemporary North America / Kay F. Stone -- Madness and cure in the thousand and one nights / Jerome W. Clinton -- To spin a yarn : the female voice in folklore and fairy tale / Karen E. Rowe -- Telling tales- spreading tales : change in the communicative forms of a popular genre / Rudolf Schenda -- Born yesterday : heroes in the Grimms' Fairy Tales / Maria M. Tatar -- Silenced women in the Grimms' Tales : the "fit" between fairy tales and society in their historical context / Ruth B. Bottinheimer -- Folklorists as agents of nationalism : Asturian legends and the problem of identity / James W. Fernandez -- Gender-related biases in the Type and Motif Indexes of Aarne and Thompson / Torborg Lundell -- The structure of "Snow White" / Steven Swann Jones -- The encyclopedia of the folktale / Hans-Jörg Uther -- Fairy tales from a semiotic perspective / Anna Tavis -- Fairy tales and psychotherapy / Simon A. Grolnick -- The criminological significance of the Grimms' Fairy Tales / Gerhard O.W. Mueller -- Feminist approaches to the interpretation of fairy tales / Kay F. Stone -- Marxists and the illumination of folk and fairy tales / Jack Zipes -- Past and present folkloristic narator research / Rainer Wehse -- Fairy tales from a folkloristic perspective / Alan Dundes -- The Grimms and the German obsession with fairy tales / Jack Zipes -- The "utterly Hessian" fairy tales by "old Marie" : the end of a myth / Heinz Rölleke. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
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| ISBN |
0812280210 alkaline paper |
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