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UNINA9910783656203321 |
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Autore |
Anderson Graham |
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Titolo |
Fairytale in the ancient world / / Graham Anderson |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-56045-1 |
0-203-13245-9 |
0-203-17035-0 |
1-280-32798-7 |
1-134-56046-X |
9786610327980 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mythology, Roman |
Mythology, Greek |
Fairy tales - Greece - History and criticism |
Fairy tales - Rome - History and criticism |
Classical literature - History and criticism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-227) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
Some difficult casesTwo ancient hero tales; Thrushbeard and The Starmaidens; AT Type 552 and the Orestes story; Notes; Bibliography; Index of folktale types; General index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed |
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