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The pied piper : a handbook
- Title
- The pied piper : a handbook / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Author
- Mieder, Wolfgang.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 07-1361 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 189 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Greenwood folklore handbooks, 1549-733X
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-180) and index.
- Contents
- Definition and classification -- "The pied piper" as folktale -- Origin of "The pied piper" -- History and dissemination -- Significance and survival -- The phrase "to pay the piper" -- "The pied piper" as ambivalent symbol -- Examples and texts -- Early variants of "The pied piper" -- "The pied piper" and the Brothers Grimm -- Later variants of the folktale -- The English "Pied piper" tradition -- "Pied piper" folk songs -- Scholarship and approaches -- Comprehensive studies -- Historical analyses -- Folkloristic investigations -- Literary reconsiderations -- Contexts -- Robert Browning's "The pied piper of Hamelin" -- "Pied piper" poems -- Prose, drama, music, and film adaptations -- Caricatures, cartoons, and comic strips -- Art, cards, stamps, and puzzles -- The pied piper in advertisements -- "Pied piper" book titles and headlines -- The folklorism of Hamelin.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-1361
- ISBN
- 0313334641 (alk. paper)
- 9780313334641 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006027919
- OCLC
- 71164023
- vendorOCM71164023
- Author
- Mieder, Wolfgang.
- Title
- The pied piper : a handbook / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Imprint
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
- Series
- Greenwood folklore handbooks, 1549-733X
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-180) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-1361