A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

Bird and the Trees, 148-51.

Books, main standard fairy tale, a list, 256-58. See Sources of material.

Breathing, exercises in, 104-05.

Briar Rose, 77. See also Sleeping Beauty.

Capture, tales of, 34-35.

Celtic fairy tales, 183-84.

Chap-books, 185-87, 188, 196, 198.

Characters, 71-73.

Child: 
  his part in story-telling, 121-25;
  interests, 13-37;
  instincts, 125-54;
  growth: 
    in observation, 6, 47-48;
    in reason, 6-7, 53-54;
    in language, 10;
    in emotion, 44-45;
    in imagination, 45-53;
    in experience, 54;
    in intellect, 53-54;
    in self-activity, 121-22;
    in consciousness, 122-23;
    in initiative, 122;
    in purpose, 123-25;
    in creative return possible to him, 123-54;
    in self-expression, 124-54;
    in organization of ideas, 153.

Child’s Own Book, The, 190.

Cinderella,
  a chap-book, 187,188, 198;
  a romantic type, 228-31.

Classes of tales, 204-44: 
  accumulative, 205-11;
  animal, 211-17;
  humorous, 217-23;
  realistic, 223-28;
  romantic, 228-34;
  old and modern, compared, 234-43;
  references, 243-44.

Classic, fairy tale as a, 38-39.

Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen, 238-39.

Coherence,
  principle of, 58-59;
  illustrated, 62, 65.

Complicated or insincere, the, 36.

Composition: 
  general qualities of, 57-58;
  precision, 57;
  energy, 57-58;
  delicacy, 58;
  personality, 58;
  principles of, 58-59;
  sincerity, 58-59;
  unity, 59;
  mass, 59;
  coherence, 59;
  style in, 59-60.

Comte de Caylus, 182.

Concrete situation, placing of story in, 94-95, 110-11.

Connotation, 54-57.

Consciousness, development of, 122-23.

Construction, expression of instinct of, 129-30.

Conversation, expression of instinct of, 125-27.

Country Mouse and City Mouse, 144-45.

Crayon-sketching, as expression, 132.

Creative return, illustrated, 144-54. See Return.

Criticism: 
  of life, teaching, a, 120-21;
  of Oeyvind and Marit, 60-64;
  of Three Billy-Goats Gruff, 64-65;
  of How the Sun, Moon, and West Wind went out to Dinner, 84-86;
  of Straw Ox, 86-87;
  of Steadfast Tin Soldier, 135-38;
  of Musicians of Bremen, 219-20;
  of Drakesbill, 221-23;
  of Puss-in-Boots and Norse Lord Peter, 275-78;
  of Tom Thumb and Little Thumb, 278-82;
  of Snow White and Rose Red, 282-86;
  and of Elephant’s Child, 287-90.

Danish tales, 194.

Dasent, Sir George W.,
  tales by, as literary form, 68-69;
  Norse tales by, 194, 247, 257.

Delicacy,
  or emotional harmony, quality of, 57-58;
  illustrated, 60, 61, 64.

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