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The pied piper : a handbook /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mieder, Wolfgang
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Series:Greenwood folklore handbooks.
Subjects:
Pied Piper of Hamelin (Tale)
Pied Piper of Hamelin (Legendary character) > Legends.
Legends > Germany > Hameln > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of 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.