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.

Jatakas, 170.

Key of the Kingdom, 207-08.

Kindergarten: 
  play in, 5-6;
  work in, unified by the fairy tale, 8-9;
  language-training in, 10-11;
  interests of child in, 13-37;
  standards for literature in, 37-87;
  standards for composition in, 54-60;
  story-telling in, 94-119;
  return to be expected from child in, 119-54;
  standards of teaching for teacher in, 119-25;
  instincts of child in, 125-54;
  history of fairy tales to be used in, 158-203;
  classes of tales used in, 204-44;
  sources of material for fairy tales to be used in, 245-64.

King-book, Persian, The, 175-76.

Lang, Andrew, tales by, as literary form, 69.

Lambikin, 21.

Language, expression in, 125-27.

Lazy Jack, 224-25.

Life,
  a sense of, 14;
  criticism of, 120-21;
  fairy tale a counterpart to, 8-9.

Lists:  of tales, 246-53; See Sources of material.

Literature,
  mind and soul in, 39-40;
  qualities of, 40;
  fairy tale as, 37-87.

Little Lamb and the Little Fish, 147-48, 267-70.

Little Two-Eyes, 145, 265-66.

Little Thumb,
  editions, 189;
  tale, 232, 281-82.

Literary collections of tales, 170-200.

Logical method of selecting tales, 95-96.

Long tales, opposed to child’s interests, 35-36.

Lord Peter, 232, 277.

Magpie’s Nest, 151, 270-72.

Maerchen Brunnen or Fairy-tale Fountain, 2-3.

Mass,
  principle of, 58-59;
  illustrated in:  Oeyvind and Marit, 61-62;
  Three Billy-Goats Gruff, 65.

Medio Pollito, 215-16.

Memory, development of, 226.

Message, of the tale, 100; of this book. See Summaries.

Method of story-telling,
  the recreative, 113-17;
  criticism of, 114-16;
  illustration of, 116-17;
  direct moral, 143.

Mind, in literature, 40.

Miscellaneous,
  tales, a list, 249-53;
  editions, 259-62.

Modern tale,
  compared with old tale, 234-43;
  types of, 235-43;
  what it is, 243;
  tales, by Andersen, 28-29, 234, 248, 256-57.

Motifs in folk-tales, classified, 97-98.

Mother Goose,
  tales of, 179-81;
  her Melodies, 187, 195, 197, 198.

Musicians of Bremen, 130-31, 219-20.

Narration,
  in fairy tales, 74-75;
  illustrated by Sleeping Beauty, 146-47.

Norse tales, 194; a list of, 247; editions, 257.

Objectification in fairy tales, 135-38.

Oeyvind and Marit, 60-64.

Old Woman and Her Pig,
  accumulative type, 207, 208;
  realistic type, 225-26;
  an exercise of memory, 226.

Organization of ideas,
  accomplished through Fir Tree, 152-53;
  social, of tale, 153-54.

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