Comparative literature -- Themes, motives

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• Comparative literature
• Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
• Themes, motives

• The Maiden King in Iceland (1938), by Erik Wahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes (London: Duckworth, 1906), by Lina Eckenstein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Degeneration (4th edition, trans. from the second German ed.; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Max Simon Nordau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Interdependence of Literature, by Georgina Pell Curtis (Gutenberg text)

• German American Annals (partial serial archives)

• Rich's "Apolonius and Silla," An Original of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1912), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by Morton Luce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• German American Annals (partial serial archives)

• Rich's "Apolonius and Silla," An Original of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1912), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by Morton Luce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (online journal, with supplementary resources) (full serial archives)

• Plotting the Short Story: A Practical Exposition of Germ-Plots, What They are and Where to Find Them; The Structure and Development of the Plot; and the Relation of the Plot to the Story (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), by Seymour Cunningham Chunn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Plotto: A New Method of Plot Suggestion for Writers of Creative Fiction (Battle Creek, MI: Ellis Pub. Co., c1928) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1921), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray, contrib. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Universal Plot Catalog: An Examination of the Elements of Plot Material and Construction, Combined with a Complete index and a Progressive Category in Which the Source, Life, and End of All Dramatic Conflict and Plot Master are Classified (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1920), by Henry Albert Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Borges: A Writer on the Edge (electronic edition, 2001), by Beatriz Sarlo (HTML at Pitt)

• Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Whitney Davis (HTML at UC Press)

• Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004) (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1998), by Julia Frances Andrews and Kuiyi Shen, contrib. by Jonathan D. Spence, Shan Guolin, Christina Chu, Xue Yongnian, and Meiqing Gao
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by W. S. Di Piero (HTML at UC Press)

• Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Whitney Davis (HTML at UC Press)

• The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)