pied piper
Subtitle: a handbook
By: Wolfgang Mieder
Series: Greenwood folklore handbooks
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780313334641
Subjects: Pied Piper of Hamelin (Tale); Pied Piper of Hamelin (Legendary character) -- Legends; Legends -- Germany -- Hameln -- History and criticism
Genres: Legends
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-180) and index
Table of contents: title: Definition and classification; title: "The pied piper" as folktale; title: Origin of "The pied piper"; title: History and dissemination; title: Significance and survival; title: The phrase "to pay the piper"; title: "The pied piper" as ambivalent symbol; title: Examples and texts; title: Early variants of "The pied piper"; title: "The pied piper" and the Brothers Grimm; title: Later variants of the folktale; title: The English "Pied piper" tradition; title: "Pied piper" folk songs; title: Scholarship and approaches; title: Comprehensive studies; title: Historical analyses; title: Folkloristic investigations; title: Literary reconsiderations; title: Contexts; title: Robert Browning's "The pied piper of Hamelin"; title: "Pied piper" poems; title: Prose, drama, music, and film adaptations; title: Caricatures, cartoons, and comic strips; title: Art, cards, stamps, and puzzles; title: The pied piper in advertisements; title: "Pied piper" book titles and headlines; title: The folklorism of Hamelin