num_pages: 172
description: "Niles' excellent translation should bring Luthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." --Library JournalLuthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.
language: English
title: The European Folktale: Form and Nature
titlecomplete: The European Folktale: Form and Nature (Folklore Studies in Translation)
genres: Academic, Research, Fairy Tales, Folklore, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 74
publisher: Indiana University Press