Folkloristics

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Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions. It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the morphology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp.

Scholars specializing in folkloristics are known as folklorists or mythologists. Some scholars include :


Literature on the subject of folkloristics

  • Aarne, Antti (1961). "The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography." ed. S. Thompson, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki
  • Dundes, Alan, ed. (1965). The Study of Folklore. Prentice Hall.
  • Dundes, Alan, ed. (1999). International Folkloristics. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Brednich, Rolf W. et al (2000)., Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin - New York
  • Thompson, Stith (1946). The Folktale, The Dryden Press, New York

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