The European Folktale Form and Nature [Paperback]

Niles excellent translation should bring L?this sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers. Library Journal

L?thi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.

Foreword by Dan Ben-Amos
Authors Preface
Translators 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