A Study of Eastern Moroccan Fairy Tales

Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000.
First Edition.

24cm x 15cm. 156 pages. Illustrated glossy papered boards.

This book studies the structure and style of orally transmitted fairy tales from Eastern Morocco in Berber and dialectal Arabic. Drawing on materials collected in his own fieldwork and other sources, the author pays special attention to the aesthetics of the fairy tale as understood by Max Lüthi and to the analysis of tale-specific formulae. Two hitherto unpublished Figuig Berber fairy tales are appended, as is a comparison of two versions of an Eastern Riffian story which, though collected independently at an interval of 60 years, show remarkable similarities. FF Communications No. 274 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

. Fine Condition.

AU$40.00

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