Research Guides: FLR 407/507 Fantastic and Weird: Week 3: The Case of the Grimms in Context : Approaches to Folklore

The Case of the Grimms in Context : Approaches to Folklore

Propp, V. I︠A︡. (Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich). Morphology of the Folktale. Second edition / revised and Edited with a preface by Louis A. Wagner; new Introduction by Alan Dundes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. ONLINE

Dundes, Alan, and Simon J Bronner. The Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. ONLINE

Dundes, Alan. “Binary Opposition in Myth: The Propp/Lévi-Strauss Debate in Retrospect.” Western Folklore 56, no. 1 (1997): 39–50. doi:10.2307/1500385. ONLINE FULL TEXT ARTICLE

Thompson, Stith, ed. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature : A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends. Revised and Enlarged edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955. ONLINE via HATHITRUST

Uther, Hans-Jörg and Folklore Fellows. The Types of International Folktales : A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004. PRINT

Dundes, Alan. “The Motif-Index and the Tale Type Index: A Critique.” Journal of Folklore Research 34, no. 3 (1997): 195–202. ONLINE FULL TEXT ARTICLE

Lüthi, Max. "The dragon slayer : the style of the fairy tale". In Once upon a Time : On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Translated by Lee Chadeayne and Paul Gottwald. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. PRINT

Norberg, Jakob. The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ONLINE