Folk literature -- Themes, motives
Here are entered works on typical plots, motives, etc. found in folk literature.
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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)- The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) (10 volumes; London: Privately printed by C. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1924-1928), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, ed. by N. M. Penzer, trans. by C. H. Tawney, contrib. by Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Kathá Sarit Ságara: or, Ocean of the Streams of Story (2 volumes; Kolkata: Printed by J. W. Thomas, 1880-1884), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, trans. by C. H. Tawney
- The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould
- Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1921), by Karl Meuli
- Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature (Indiana University Publications folklore series #7; 1952), by Tom Peete Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1961), by Bacil F. Kirtley (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Folk literature- Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission From Country to Country (London: Whittaker and Co., 1834), by Thomas Keightley
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of English and American Chap-Books and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library (Harvard Library Bibliographical Contributions #56; 1905), by Harvard University Library (multiple formats at archive.org)
- English Tracts, Pamphlets and Printed Sheets: A Bibliography (2 volumes; London: W. Gandy, 1922-1923), by J. Harvey Bloom (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Types of the Folk-Tale: A Classification and Bibliography (translated and enlarged by Thompson; FF Communications #74; Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1928), by Antti Aarne, ed. by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Vergleichende Märchenforschungen (in German; Helsinki: Druckerei der Finnischen Literaturgesellschaft, 1908), by Antti Aarne (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by Allan Cunningham, contrib. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), ed. by Thomas A. McKean (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), ed. by John Ashton
- The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Beauties of the Muses: The Beggar's Petition; Danae to Her Babe Perseus; and, Lines on a Malefactor Under Condemnation (London: J. T. Ward and Co, 1808), contrib. by Thomas Moss
- Book About Birds (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1850), by Rufus Merrill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Child's Coloured Picture Reading Book (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Good Child's Amusing Riddle-Book, Adorned with Cuts (Birmingham, UK: Printed by T. Brandard, n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Goode's Universal Dream Book (London: T. Goode, between 1859 and 1879) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Little Book About a Horse (London: J. and C. Evans, 1826)
- A Little Book of Poetry for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1847) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A New History of a True Book, in Verse (London: J. Marshall et al., ca. 1796)
- A New Picture Book (London: Printed by C. E. Knight for J. Davis, ca. 1830)
- A New Riddle Book: or, A Whetstone for Dull Wits (ca. 1790), contrib. by John Drewry
- The Norwood Gipsy's Fortune Teller (London: W. S. Fortey, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Rhymes Without Reason (New York: Hurd and Houghton, ca. 1864) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Simple Poems for Infant Minds (New York: Kiggins and Kellogg, ca. 1848), illust. by Benjamin F. Pease and William Barritt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Traveller's Story (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1870) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Universal Dreamer: Containing the Interpretation of a Great Variety of Dreams, Explaining Their Meaning, and Disclosing The Secrets of Futurity (London: W. S. Fortey, n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Walker's Nursery Rhymes (ca. 1813) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Be Polite to All (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Book of Nations, for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1848), by Elias Irish Werden (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Little Book About Little Birds, &c. (London: J. and C. Evans, 1826) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Mother (London: Bishop and Co., ca. 1840), by Ann Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A New History of Blue Beard (adapted from Perrault's 'Barbe Bleue'; Philadelphia: Printed by J. Adams, 1804), by Gaffer Black Beard, contrib. by Charles Perrault
- A Riddle Book, For the Use of Children (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1843)
- A Short History of Birds and Beasts, for the Amusement and Instruction Of Children: Adorned with Cuts (ca. 1830), illust. by John Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The World Turned Upside Down: or, No News, and Strange News (York: J. Kendrew, ca. 1820)
- Anger: A Story For Boys (London: Dean and Son, 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (York, UK: Printed by J. Kendrew, ca. 1820)
- A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
- A Tale About an Orange (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1860)
- The Trial of an Ox for Killing a Man: With The Examination of the Witnesses Before Judge Lion, at Quadruped Court, Near Beast Park (Banbury, UK: J. G. Rusher, ca. 1830) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Visit to Grandpapa (new edition; London: Houlston and Stoneman (cover: Houlston and Wright), ca. 1847), by Mary Martha Sherwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Sezession in der Dramatischen Kunst und das Volksfestspiel, Mit Einem Rückblick auf die Passion von Oberammergau (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1911), by Georg Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
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