Author: Nøjgaard, Morten ; editor:
Title: The Telling of Stories : Approaches to a Traditional Craft : A Symposium
Description: Odense, Odense University Press, 1990. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, 192 pp.. Minor rubbing. Corner rubbed. VG. ¶ Proceedings of the thirteeneth international symposium organized by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at Odense University on 21-22 November, 1988". Contains 7 papers. Includes: Tiererzählungen und ihr Menschenbild; Moral Attitudes in Traditional Narratives about Childlessness and Childbirth; How Storytellers Interpret the Snakeprince Tale; Oral Traditional Tales & the 'Thousand Nights and a Night'; Hans im Glück (KHM 83) zur Entstehung, Verbreitung und bildlichen Darstellung eines populären Märchens; Hans Christian Andersen's Use of Folktales; Hans Christian Andersen und die literarische Märchentradition.

Keywords: Folk Literature, Storytelling, Oral Literary, Folklore, Folktales, Folktale, Criticism, History,