Frontmatter -- Introduction / JASON, HEDA / SEGAL, DIMITRI -- SECTION ONE: Narrative Patterns -- The Innocent Persecuted Heroine: An Attempt at a Model for the Surface Level of the Narrative Structure of the Female Fairy Tale / DAN, ILANA -- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: An Attempt at a Model for the Narrative Structure of the Reward-and-Punishment Fairy Tale / DRORY, RINA -- The Morphology of the French Fairy Tale: The Ethical Model / BREMOND, CLAUDE -- Fundamentals of a Grammar of Oral Literature / GÜTTGEMANNS, ERHARDT -- A Model for Narrative Structure in Oral Literature / JASON, HEDA -- Modeling Propp and Lévi-Strauss in a Metasymbolic Simulation System / KLEIN, SHELDON / AESCHLIMANN, JOHN F. / APPELBAUM, MATTHEW A. / BALSIGER, DAVID F. / CURTIS, ELIZABETH J. / FOSTER, MARK / KALISH, S. DAVID / KAMIN, SCOTT J. / LEE, YING-DA / PRICE, LYNNE A. / SALSIEDER, DAVID F. -- SECTION TWO: Patterns of Content -- Lévi-Strauss' Myth of Method / FREILICH, MORRIS -- Scandinavian Mythology as a System of Oppositions / MELETINSKIJ, ELEAZAR -- Content Analysis of Oral Literature: A Discussion / JASON, HEDA -- APPENDICES -- The Problem of "Tale Role" and "Character" in Propp's Work -- List of Propp's Functions -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Aarne-Thompson Numbers Discussed in Papersweiterlesen