This work is an award winning compendium of authors, concepts, motifs, characters, themes, works, and movements associated with folklore and literature from around the world.
· Provides an informatiove introduction
· Includes extensive cross references and a bibliography
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Did you know that Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet first circulated as an oral legend during the Middle Ages? Or that J.R.R. Tolkien borrowed character types from European oral narratives to develop his heroic quest trilogy The Lord of the RingS? Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature describes how these and other oral traditions became the inspiration for the world's most famous literature.
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