Böcker i Folklore Studies in Translation-serien

First interdisciplinary study of the Kalevala to appear in English.

Through the use of generic distinctions and definitions developed in folkloristics, this title describes the major trends - structural, thematic, functional - of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture. It presents an overview of the Hebrew folktale, and examines the transmission of the folktale from period to period.

Along with Lüthi's The European Folktale and Propp's The Morphology of the Folktale, Röhrich's Märchen und Wirklichkeit is considered a key text in folklore scholarship.

" -Library JournalLüthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.

Presents a number of the basic principles for the study of folklore. This translation offers English readers the 'rules' which became the foundation of not only every folklore program in Scandinavia but also most of the programs in the rest of the Western world. It aims to develop a methodology for the study of folk narrative.