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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
folktale general term for any of numerous varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal, common to primitive and complex societies alike. Even the forms folktales take are demonstrably similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative techniques have been successful in showing these relationships. Among the foremost folklorists of the 19th cent. were Oskar Dähnhardt in Germany, S. O. Addy in England, Paul Sébillot in France, and Y. M. Sokolov in Russia. Major 20th-century scholars in the field include Franz... Read more
fable
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... intended to enforce a useful truth, especially one in which animals or inanimate objects speak and act like human beings. Unlike a folktale, it has a moral that is woven into the story and often explicitly formulated at the end. The Western fable tradition began ... Read more
Griselda
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... whose husband subjects her to numerous trials in order to test her devotion. The story originated in a widespread W European folktale patterned in part upon the story of Cupid and Psyche. The tale of Griselda was used by Boccaccio in the Decameron, by Petrarch ... Read more

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"Dogs Rescue Master from Tree Refuge," an African folktale with world-wide analogs
Western Folklore; 1/1/1998; Goldberg, Christine; 7889 words ; Where did a certain folktale come from? is a time-honored question ... series of articles called "African Folktales in the New World" (published in Researches ... explicitly cited in The Types of the Folktale, Bascom decided that they were irrelevant ... Read more
Authenticity in Chinese folktale picture books. (On-going topics).(problems with illustration)
Academic Exchange Quarterly; 3/22/2002; Ruan, Jiening; 3184 words ; ... surrounding cultural authenticity in Chinese folktale picture books. Some major Chinese cultural ... the works of two most prominent Chinese folktale picture book artists. The author also ... deserves careful examination. Chinese folktales are frequently used for multicultural ... Read more
Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--Story as Initiation
Western Folklore; 1/1/1999; Goldberg, Christine; 894 words ; Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--Story ... bibliography. $41.95 cloth) The universal folktale in the tide refers to tales that include ... powerful being (1). Gilet situates this "folktale" (perhaps theme or motif would be a better ... Read more
Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index
Western Folklore; 7/1/2005; Omidsalar, Mahmoud; 1141 words ; Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically ... University, is the foremost authority on Arab folktale in the western hemisphere. He has previously ... but his newest book, Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically ... Read more
Folktale types of the Arab world.(Types of the Folktale in the Arab World)(Book review)
Asian Folklore Studies; 10/1/2005; Jason, Heda; 1582 words ; EL-SHAMY, HASAN, M. Types of the Folktale in the Arab World. A Demographically ... the discipline with the long awaited folktale catalogue for the Arab world (dubbed ... very much a white spot on the map of folktale research. The work under review consists ... Read more
The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning
Western Folklore; 7/1/2003; Oring, Elliott; 1435 words ; The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning. By Eli Yassif ... notes, index, $59.95 cloth.) The Hebrew Folktale is the magnum opus of Eli Yassif, Professor ... attempts to outline the course of the folktale in Hebrew culture through the ages ... Read more
Tainted Sources: The Subversion of the Grimms' Ideology of the Folktale in Heinrich Heine's Der Rabbi von Bacherach1
German Quarterly; 1/1/2005; Schreiber, Elliott; 9773 words ; ... so were their accompanying remarks on folktales as a form of what they, following Herder ... articulate various theories to explain how folktales are transmitted, their preface and introduction ... the influential concept of a pure German folktale tradition passed down to their time. Over ... nationalist ... Read more
Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index/Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt
Marvels & Tales; 7/1/2007; Allen, Roger; 1219 words ; Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented ... contains is the well-known categorization of folktales, the Aarne-Thompson type index (as contained in The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography, 1964 ... Read more
Folktales of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition
Journal of American Folklore; 10/1/1999; Leary, James P; 1055 words ; Folktales of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition ... Publications of the American Folklore Society, New Series. World Folktale Library, vol. 3. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ... Lindahl's preface endorses Gerald Thomas's notion that Folktales of Newfoundland is "the most important ... Read more
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress
Western Folklore; 10/1/2006; Grider, Sylvia; 1062 words ; American Folktales from the Collections of the Library ... Richard Dorson was general editor of the Folktales of the World series for the University ... contents for the American volume of Folktales of the World." That this was a trick ... Read more

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