Graham Anderson

Fairytale in the Ancient World (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including: * a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella * a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis * a Pied Piper at Troy. He puts forward many previously unsuspected candidates as classical variants of the modern fairytale and argues that the degree of violence and cruelty in the ancient tales means they must have been meant for adults.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134560455
• Artikelnr.: 42641686

Autorenporträt

Graham Anderson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 The Cinderella story in antiquity
3 Snow White and related tales
4 Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast
5 The Obstacle Flight
6 The 'innocent slandered maid'
7 Butchering girls: Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard
8 Magicians and their allies
9 Between living and dead
10 Two Homeric tales: The Cyclops and Ares and Aphrodite
11 Some moral parables: The Pied Piper
The Three Wishes
Rumpelstiltskin
The Singing Bone
12 Fairytale into romance
13 Folktales and society: some reflections on ancient evidence
14 Conclusions
Appendix 1 Some difficult cases
Appendix 2 Two ancient hero tales
Appendix 3 Thrushbeard and The Starmaidens
Appendix 4 AT Type 552 and the Orestes story
Notes
Bibliography
Index of folktale types
General index