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| Preface | ||
| List of abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The Cinderella story in antiquity | 24 |
| 3 | Snow White and related tales | 43 |
| 4 | Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast | 61 |
| 5 | The Obstacle Flight | 72 |
| 6 | The 'innocent slandered maid' | 83 |
| 7 | Butchering girls: Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard | 92 |
| 8 | Magicians and their allies | 103 |
| 9 | Between living and dead | 112 |
| 10 | Two Homeric tales: The Cyclops and Ares and Aphrodite | 123 |
| 11 | Some moral parables: The Pied Piper, The Three Wishes, Rumpelstiltskin, The Singing Bone | 133 |
| 12 | Fairytale into romance | 145 |
| 13 | Folktales and society: some reflections on ancient evidence | 158 |
| 14 | Conclusions | 167 |
| App. 1 | Some difficult cases | 173 |
| App. 2 | Two ancient hero tales | 183 |
| App. 3 | Thrushbeard and The Starmaidens | 188 |
| App. 4 | AT Type 552 and the Orestes story | 193 |
| Notes | 195 | |
| Bibliography | 220 | |
| Index folktale types | 228 | |
| General index | 230 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Ron Akram
reviewed Fairy Tale in the Ancient World on September 11, 2017
Fairy Tale in the Ancient World
With this academic study, Anderson provides a comprehensive and at times exhausting examination of fairytale antecedents in ancient (mostly Western) mythology. It's a thorough, well-researched study, with chapters focusing on specific fairy tales--like "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Little Red Riding Hood"--as well as general categories of tales. If this sounds like something you need for research purposes, you should definitely pick it up. It lacks the engaging prose style of some other fairytale academics, like Jack D. Zipes or Marina Warner, but while I won't be reading it cover-to-cover again, I'm keeping my copy in case I need it for research. It certainly seems like it opens up a lot of research potential for other academics to explore.
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