Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
International Folkloristics
ISBN-10
0820458082
ISBN-13
9780820458083
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 4th, 2002
Print length
278 Pages
Weight
432 grams
Dimensions
17.10 x 24.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Religion & beliefsCultural studiesFolklore, myths & legends
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Folklorists have become renowned for concentrating on aspects of form and classification to the detriment of content and meaning. Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales seeks to reverse this tendency in showing, through an examination of the folkloric data, that European fairy tales involve complex symbolism. This book seeks to explain – in reference to the notion of metamorphosis – the puzzling contradictory attributes of fairy-tale figures that have discouraged the study of meanings in this field and proposes that the workings of metamorphosis in fairy tales reveal a pervasive cyclic ontology that underlies mythology and ritual. The issue of universal symbolism is again examined – divested from any «archetypal» generalizations – as a subject of worthy reflection.
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