| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-227) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mythology, Roman.
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Mythology, Greek.
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Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
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Classical literature -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the ancient world. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 0415237025 (DLC) 00029109 (OCoLC)43728963 |
| ISBN |
0203170350 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203170359 (electronic bk.) |
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0203132459 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203132456 (electronic bk.) |
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9780415237024 (hbk.) |
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0415237025 (hbk.) |
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9780415237031 (pbk.) |
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0415237033 (pbk.) |
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