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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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