Literature and folklore
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Folk tale, fiction and saga in the Homeric epics
Form and fable in American fiction
Beowulf and the medieval proverb tradition
Risking enchantment
Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale
Re-situating folklore
Writing tricksters
The Faery Garden
Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale (Marvels & Tales Special Issue, 1)
From folklore to fiction
Folk-lore of Shakespeare
Voices From The Fuente Viva
Trickster Makes This World
Fairy tale romance
Victorian transformations
Folktale and hero-tale motifs in the odes of Pindar
Myth
The tested woman plot
Simple Forms
Zora Neale Hurston and a history of southern life
Strange and Secret Peoples
Shakespeare's Names (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)
W.B. Yeats and Irish folklore
Clear word and third sight
The fairy tale
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed
John Henry and his hammer
When Brer Rabbit meets Coyote
Folklore and literature of the British Isles
Tending the heart of virtue
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