A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

Denotation, 54.

Description, 75.

Dick Whittington,
  illustrating oral transmission of tales, 169;
  a chap-book, 185, 188, 196, 198.

Diminutive, the, 25-26.

Dragon tales, 31.

Drakesbill, 221-23.

Dramatic game:  Elves and the Shoemaker, 145; Sleeping Beauty, 146-47.

Dramatization,
  as expression, 138-54;
  virtues of, 138, 143;
  dangers of, 139-43;
  of Sleeping Beauty, 146-47;
  of Bird and the Trees, 149-51;
  of Fir Tree, 152-53;
  of Little Two Eyes, 265-66;
  of Snow White, 266-67;
  of How the Birds came to have Different Nests, 270-72;
  and of Puss-in-Boots, 276.

Drawing, as expression, 132.

Dwarf’s Tailor, 237.

Editions,
  main fairy tale, 256-58;
  fairy tale, of all nations, 258-59;
  illustrated, 254-55;
  miscellaneous, of fairy tales, 259-62;
  school, of fairy tales, 262-64.

Elements to be avoided, 30-36.

Elephant’s Child, illustrating: 
  repetition, 27-28;
  suggestion, 56-57;
  form, 100-01;
  modern animal tale, 239, 287-90.

Elves and the Shoemaker,
  illustrating:  structure and short-story, 82-84;
  story, 82-84; creative return, 145.

Emelyan the Fool, 170.

Emotion,
  appeal to, distinguishing literary trait, 40-41;
  qualities of literary, 41;
  literary, in fairy tales, 41-44;
  growth of, 44-45;
  comparison of, in fairy tales and Shakespeare’s dramas, 7, 43-44.

Energy or force, quality of, 57-58;
  illustrated, 61, 64.

English fairy tales, 184-92;
  collections of, 184-88;
  illustrating development of illustration, 188-92;
  by Jacobs, list, 247-48;
  editions, 257.

Expression in: 
  language, 125-27;
  reading, 127;
  inquiry, 127-29;
  construction, 129-30;
  art, 130-54;
  paper-cutting, 130-31;
  drawing, 132;
  painting, 132;
  rhythm play, 133-34;
  song, 132-33;
  game, 134-35;
  representation, 135-38;
  dramatization, 138-54, 265-72.

Fairy,
  derivation of, 159-60;
  history of the name, 160.

Fairy tales:  worth of, 1-12;
  principles of selection for, 13-89;
  telling of, 90-157;
  history of, 158-203;
  classes of, 204-44;
  sources of material for, 245-64;
  tributes to, 1-3;
  interests in, 13-37;
  as literature, 37-70;
  as classics, 38-39;
  possessing mind and soul, 39-40;
  distinguished by marks of literature, 40;
  as emotion, 41-45;
  as imagination, 45-53;
  philosophy in, 48-52;
  proverbs in, 50;
  as truth, 53-54;
  as form, 54-70;
  powers of words in, 54-57;
  general qualities of form in, 57-58;
  general principles controlling form in, 58-59;
  style in, defined, 59-60;
  tested as literary form, 60-70;

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