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Research Topics on: folk tales

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Books on: folk tales

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Encyclopedia Articles on: folk tales

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  • Children's Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Ballads, sagas, and epic tales were told by the fireside or...adventures of heroes. Many of these tales were later written down and...time are still popular today. Folk tales collected in Germany by...Joseph Jacobs compiled English folk tales. Andrew Lang, a folklorist...
     
  • Folklore
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...folklorists and anthropologists regard folk customs, legends, and beliefs as...attitudes, and cultural values. Folk heroes (e.g., Frederick Barbarossa...Many theories have arisen to explain folk tales Max Muller, a philologist, interpreted...
     
  • Byliny
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...poems. They are called by the folk stariny Rus.,=what is old...handed down by word of mouth by folk reciters. The poems were first...cycle of Older Heroes relates tales of the strong plowman Mikula...Byzantine, and Central Asian folk tales, byliny are strikingly...
     
  • Breton Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Villemarque assembled an anthology of folk poems but was attacked for his dubious...resulted in the establishment of several folk theaters and in the expansion and...20th cent. a large number of Breton folk tales and songs have been collected. The...
     
  • Tieck, Ludwig
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...one of the first German romantic novels. His fairy tales and folk tales, notably Der blonde Eckbert (1796) and Volksmarchen...historical fiction, and Phantasus (3 vol., 1812 16; tr. Tales from the Phantasus, 1845), a collection of stories...
     

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