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The pied piper : a handbook
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The pied piper : a handbook

Author: Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Series: Greenwood folklore handbooks
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Wolfgang Mieder
ISBN: 0313334641 9780313334641
OCLC Number: 71164023
Description: xi, 189 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Definition and classification -- "The pied piper" as folktale -- Origin of "The pied piper" -- History and dissemination -- Significance and survival -- The phrase "to pay the piper" -- "The pied piper" as ambivalent symbol -- Examples and texts -- Early variants of "The pied piper" -- "The pied piper" and the Brothers Grimm -- Later variants of the folktale -- The English "Pied piper" tradition -- "Pied piper" folk songs -- Scholarship and approaches -- Comprehensive studies -- Historical analyses -- Folkloristic investigations -- Literary reconsiderations -- Contexts -- Robert Browning's "The pied piper of Hamelin" -- "Pied piper" poems -- Prose, drama, music, and film adaptations -- Caricatures, cartoons, and comic strips -- Art, cards, stamps, and puzzles -- The pied piper in advertisements -- "Pied piper" book titles and headlines -- The folklorism of Hamelin.
Series Title: Greenwood folklore handbooks
Responsibility: Wolfgang Mieder.
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