This first paperback edition of the 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.
"Lüthi’s lucid and intelligent book is refreshingly welcome." ―Sewanee Review

Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales

Biographies & Memoirs

Lüthi, Max

Community & Culture

Indiana University Press

"Niles’ excellent translation should bring Lüthi’s sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." ―Library Journal
Lüthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.

The European Folktale: Form and Nature (Folklore Studies in Translation)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max Lüthi, the traditional fairytale is examined from two related points of view, that of aesthetics and that of anthropology. Lüthi shows that fairytales are more than just a pleasing form; they present a particular way of looking at the world and at human existence. Thus, they must be evaluated in terms of what they say about man and the human condition. This exemplary study will be read with enjoyment and profit not only by the literary scholar and folklore professional but by any reader who has ever delighted in fairytales.

Fairytale As Art Form and Portrait of Man

Indiana Univ. Press

Once upon a Time; On the Nature of Fairy Tales.

UNKNO

"Niles' excellent translation should bring LÃ¼thi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." â€”Library JournalLÃ¼thi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.

The European folktale: Form and nature (Translations in folklore studies)

Institute for the Study of Human Issues

Shakespeares Dramen (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Walter de Gruyter

Das Volksmärchen als Dichtung: Ästhetik und Anthropologie (Studien zur Volkserzählung ; Bd. 1) (German Edition)

E. Diederichs

Sammlung von bekannten und heutzutage weniger bekannten Märchen, zauberhaft illustriert von Karl Fahringer.

Märchen (Sammlung Metzler) (German Edition)

J.B. Metzler

Science & Math

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