Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 240 pages)
ISBN:
0203132459
,
0203170350
,
0415237025
,
0415237033
,
9780203132456
,
9780203170359
,
9780415237024
,
9780415237031
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-227) and indexes
,
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
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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
Language:
English
Keywords:
Märchen
;
Geschichte Anfänge-500
;
Griechenland
;
Märchen
;
Latein
;
Märchen
;
Griechisch
;
Märchen
;
Römisches Reich
;
Märchen
;
Antike
;
Märchen
