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Folktales Told Around the World

Richard M Dorson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:1st Nov '78

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All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.

ISBN: 9780226158747

Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 4mm

Weight: 992g

648 pages