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Fairytale in the ancient world / Graham Anderson

Anderson, Graham, 1945-

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

Online Ressource (ix, 240 p.)

Englisch

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The Cinderella story in antiquity; Snow White and related tales; Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast; The Obstacle Flight; The 'innocent slandered maid'; Butchering girls: Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard; Magicians and their allies; Between living and dead; Two Homeric tales: The Cyclops and Ares and Aphrodite; Some moral parables: The Pied Piper, The Three Wishes, Rumpelstiltskin, The Singing Bone; Fairytale into romance; Folktales and society: some reflections on ancient evidence; Conclusions

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-227) and indexes. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Fairytale in the ancient world

978-0-415-23702-4 (hbk); 0-415-23702-5 (hbk); 978-0-415-23703-1 (pbk.); 0-415-23703-3 (pbk.); 0-203-17035-0 (electronic bk.); 978-0-203-17035-9 ( : electronic bk.); 0-203-13245-9 (electronic bk.); 978-0-203-13245-6 ( : electronic bk.)

0-415-23702-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-415-23703-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-415-23702-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-415-23703-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 50675781     

OCoLC: 50675781 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

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BL805

292.13 ; 292.1/3     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: REL072000 ; bisacsh: OCC036020 ; bisacsh: OCC 036020 ; bisacsh: REL 072000

LOC-SH: Fairy tales -- History and criticism ; Classical literature -- History and criticism ; Mythology, Roman ; Mythology, Greek ; Fairy tales -- History and criticism ; Classical literature -- History and criticism ; Classical literature -- History and criticism ; Fairy tales -- History and criticism ; Mythology, Roman ; Mythology, Greek ; Electronic books

Electronic books / Criticism, interpretation, etc ; RELIGION ; Antiquities & Archaeology ; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Spirituality ; Paganism & Neo-Paganism ; Classical literature ; Fairy tales ; Mythology, Greek ; Mythology, Roman ; Criticism, interpretation, etc

The first modern study of the ancient fairytale, it bridges a major gap between the study of the ancient world and the wider world of oral culture, and will be of immense value and interest to students of a wide variety of disciplines