The European Folktale: Form and Nature / Edition 1

by Max Luthi

Overview

"Niles' excellent translation should bring Lüthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." —Library Journal

Lüthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253203939
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	09/22/1986
Series:	Folklore Studies in Translation
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dan Ben-Amos
Author's Preface
Translator's Preface

Introduction

1. One-Dimensionality
2. Depthlessness
3. Abstract Style
4. Isolation and Universal Interconnection
5. Sublimination and All-Inclusiveness
6. Function and Significane of the Folktale
7. Folktale Scholarship

Supplement: Sturctural Folktale Scholarship

Notes
Index of Tale Types
General Index