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Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales

by Max Luthi · 1970

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This first paperback edition of the seminal work by the Swiss scholar Max Luthi 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.

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"Luthi's lucid and intelligent book is refreshingly welcome." —Sewanee Review

Subject
literary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of this
Genre
fairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of thisfolklorefolkloreMore like thisLess of thismythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 188 pages

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