| Description |
179 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Sleeping beauty: the meaning and form of fairy tales -- The seven sleepers / Saint's legend--local legend--fairy tale -- The dragon slayer: the style of the fairy tale -- The uses of fairy tales: Cinderella--Hansel and Gretel--The white snake -- The little earth-cow: symbolism in the fairy tale -- The living doll: local legend and fairy tale -- Animal stories: A glimpse of the tales of primitive peoples -- Rapunzel: the fairy tale as representation of a maturation process -- The riddle princess: cunning, jest, and sagacity -- The fairy-tale hero: the image of man in the fairy tale -- The miracle in literature |
| Notes |
Translation of Es war einmal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translation from the German, Es war einmal |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
79118870 |
| ISBN |
0804425655 |
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