Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is the classic work on forms of the European folktale.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction to the Second Edition
• Introduction to the First Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Author's Foreword
• I On the History of the Problem
• II The Method and Material
• III The Functions of Dramatis Personae
• IV Assimilations: Cases of the Double Morphological Meaning of a Single function
• V Some Other Elements of the Tale
• A Auxiliary Elements for the Interconnection of Functions
• B Auxiliary Elements in Trebling
• C Motivations
• VI The Distribution of Functions Among Dramatis Personae
• VII Ways in Which New Characters Are Introduced into the Course of Action
• VIII On the Attributes of Dramatis Personae and their Significance
• IX The Tale as a Whole
• A The Ways in Which Stories Are Combined
• B An Example of Analysis of a Tale
• C The Problem of Classification
• D On the Relationship of Particular Forms of Structure to the General Pattern
• E The Problem of Composition and Theme, and of Themes and Variants
• F Conclusion