Metamorphosis : The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales

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ISBN: 9780820458083 | 0820458082
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Copyright: 8/1/2002

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Francisco Vaz da Silva is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at ISCTE, Instituto Superior das Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa, University of Lisbon.

Editor's Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

Introduction

(12)

Fairy Tales and Ethnography

(54)

Fairy Tales and the Perils of the Soul

(8)

On the Meaning of ``Meanings''

(8)

Extraordinary Children in Praxis and in Fairy Tales

(7)

The Great Round of Souls

(7)

Double Skins and Metamorphosis

(6)

Female Werewolves

(7)

Symbolic Echoes

(11)

Metamorphosis and Ontological Complexity

(46)

Self-sacrificial Sloughing and Omniscience

(9)

The Blood of Genesis

(6)

Bleeding Werewolves

(2)

Propp and Levi-Strauss on Metamorphosis

(5)

Ontological Complexity in Fairy Tales

(5)

Cyclic Themes in Fairy Tales

(19)

Bloody Tales

113

(50)

Folklorists and Origins

113

(4)

Thematic Transformations in Le Petit Chaperon rouge

117

(5)

A Medieval Red Cap

122

(4)

Scholarly Tradition on Little Red Riding Hood

126

(6)

Floral Language in Cultural Context

132

(6)

Re-evaluating Perrault

138

(5)

Tradition as Corruption

143

(3)

Meet the Loathly Bride

146

(17)

The Core of Fairy Tales

163

(58)

The Dragon Slayer as Cinderella

163

(5)

The Slayer and the Victim: Androgyny

168

(8)

Tobias Nights and the Loathly Bride

176

(5)

Freud and Oedipus

181

(5)

Oedipus the Dragon Slayer

186

(7)

Cinderella the Snake Slayer

193

(7)

Variations and Theme in the Cinderella Cycle

200

(4)

Tobias Nights, Muteness, and Poison-Damsels

204

(2)

Skins, Flowers, and Salt

206

(7)

Riddle

213

(8)

Conclusion

221

(26)

Cyclic Logic: The Dragon

221

(6)

A Basic Pattern of Thought

227

(5)

The Metaphysics of Kin Intimacy

232

(2)

Transformations and the Unconscious

234

(13)

Works Cited

247

(24)

Index

271

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