"Niles' excellent translation should bring LA?thi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." -- Library JournalLA?thi demonstrates how the folktale, by its v
This first paperback edition of the seminal work by the Swiss scholar Max LA?thi will be welcomed by folklorists for its informative survey of the various ways in which fairytales and related genres
In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max Luthi, the traditional fairytale is examined from two related points of view, that of aesthetics and that of anthropology. Luthi shows that
