Folkloristics
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Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions. It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the typology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp.
Scholars specializing in folkloristics are known as folklorists or mythologists. Some of the more famous scholars are:
- Antti Aarne
- Walter Anderson
- Ben Botkin
- Thomas Bulfinch
- John Francis Campbell
- Thomas Crofton Croker
- Jeremiah Curtin
- Brothers Grimm
- Edith Hamilton
- Thomas Keightley
- Julius Krohn
- Kaarle Krohn
- Alan Lomax
- Vladimir Propp
- Carl von Sydow
- Stith Thompson
- Lady Wilde
- Glen Grant
- Arnold van Gennep
Literature on the subject of folkloristics
- Aarne, Antti (1961). "The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography." ed. S. Thompson, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki
- von Brednich, Rolf W. et al (2000)., Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin – New York
- Thompson, Stith (1946). The Folktale, The Dryden Press, New York