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"Niles' excellent translation should bring Lüthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." --Library Journal
Lüthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dan Ben-Amos
Author's Preface
Translator's Preface
Introduction
1. One-Dimensionality
2. Depthlessness
3. Abstract Style
4. Isolation and Universal Interconnection
5. Sublimination and All-Inclusiveness
6. Function and Significane of the Folktale
7. Folktale Scholarship
Supplement: Sturctural Folktale Scholarship
Notes
Index of Tale Types
General Index