FREE: Once Upon a time: On the nature of Fairy Tales by Max Luthi

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Fascinating book - Trade paperback, good condition - bent corner of front cover (see third photo) Pages and Binding tight and clean - spine barely creased.

Seminal work by the Swiss scholar Max Lüthi will be welcomed by folklorists for its informative survey of the various ways in which fairytales and related genres (local legends and saints' lives) may be read.

concise and short, full of insight and authority yet never hard going. Luthi is a distinguished scholar, but keen to communicate his enthusiasm rather than any dry analysis. Scholars have analysed fairy tales according to many models, but this book becomes a primer for folklore theories too, as Luthi takes a tale or two in each chapter and examines them according to a different one of those approaches each time.

For anyone fascinated in adulthood by fairy tales, this really teases out the essence of the tales, their nature and appeal, and the various ways they resonate with us.

Chapters: 1. Sleeping Beauty - the meaning and form of fairy tales 2. The Seven Sleepers - Saint's legend, local legend, fairy tale 3. The Dragon Slayer - the style of the fairy tale 4. The Uses of Fairy Tales - Cinderella, Hansel & Gretel, The White Snake. 5. The Little Earth-Cow - symbolism in the fairy tale 6. The Living Doll - local legend and fairy tale 7. Animal Stories - a glimpse of the tales of primitive peoples 8. Rapunzel - the fairy tale as representation of a maturation process 9. The Riddle Princess - cunning, jest, and sagacity 10. The Fairy-Tale Hero - the image of man in the fairy tale 11. The Miracle in Literature.

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