The Literary Approach

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• Afshar, Mahasti Ziai. The Immortal Hound: The Genesis and Transformation of a Symbol in Indo-Iranian Traditions . New York : Garland Pub., 1990
• Bluestein, Gene The Voice of the Folk : Folklore and American Literary Theory. Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1972.
• Boggs, Ralph Steele. A Comparative Survey of the Folktales of Ten Peoples. Helsinki: Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Academia scientiarum fennica, 1930.
• Buchan, John. The Novel and the Fairy Tale. Oxford: University Press, 1931.
• Bynum, David E. The Daemon in the Wood: A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns. Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Study of Oral Literature, Harvard University, 1978.
• Callander, Marilyn Berg. Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989.
• Canton, Katia. The Fairy Tale Revisited : a Survey of the Evolution of the Tales, From Classical Literary Interpretations to Innovative Contemporary Dance-Theater Productions. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.
• Fairy Tales and Society : Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
• Fairy Tales as Ways of Knowing : Essays on Marchen in Psychology, Society and Literature. Las Vegas: P. Lang, 1981.
• Fohr, S. D. Cinderella's Gold Slipper : Spiritual Symbolism in the Grimm's Tales. Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1991.
• Forms of folklore in Africa : narrative, poetic, gnomic, dramatic. Univ. of Texas Press, ?
• Franz, Marie-Luise von. Individuation in Fairytales. Shambhala Publications, 1990
• Genre, structure, and reproduction in oral literature.
• Jones, Steven Swann The new comparative method : structural and symbolic analysis of the allomotifs of Snow White. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, ?
Akadaemiai Kiadao, ?
• Luthi, Max. The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
• Maranda, Pierre. Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.
• McCully, Robert S. The Enigma of Symbols in Fairy Tales : Zimmer's Dialogue Renewed.' Lewiston, N.Y., USA: E. Mellen Press, 1991.
• Stewart, Susan. Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
• Wosien, Maria-Gabriele. The Russian Folk-Tale. Some Structural and Thematic Aspects. Munchen: Sagner, 1969.