Encyclopedia of folklore and literature

The Resource Encyclopedia of folklore and literature
Label
Encyclopedia of folklore and literature
Statement of responsibility
editors, Mary Ellen Brown, Bruce A. Rosenberg ; editorial assistants, Peter Harle, Kathy Sitarski
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Contains entries for authors, titles, national literatures, themes, and motifs in literature and folklore
  • "This encyclopedia examines the profound influence of folklore on literature. The more than 350 alphabetically arranged entries fall into four categories: writers and literary works that use folklore as a resource or source; concepts that make it easier to look at folklore and literature together; themes and characters that originated in oral literature but are also found in written literature; and scholars who have studied and contributed to the field of folklore and literature. The work concentrates on European and Western themes, including classical Greek and Roman. The introduction discusses the interest and connections between folklore and literature and ends with a bibliography".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
803
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PN41
LC item number
.E48 1998
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • encyclopedias
Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Waubonsee Community College. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.