5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
The Arabic-language collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled over several centuries — including Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad the Sailor, and the frame story of Scheherazade — the greatest monument of Arabic narrative literature.
A collection of traditional tales drawing on archetypal narrative structures, referenced in Jordan Peterson's lecture series as an example of mythological storytelling.
A lecture or lecture series exploring the intersection of Christian theological tradition with the wonder tale and fairy tale genre, examining how Christian narrative incorporates and transforms the archetypal structures of folk wonder tales — miraculous intervention, transformation, quest, and divine encounter.
Classic European fairy tale — codified by Charles Perrault (1697) and later the Brothers Grimm (1812) — depicting a young girl's encounter with a wolf in the forest while traveling to her grandmother's house — one of the most analyzed and symbolically rich fairy tales in the Western canon.
Classic fairy tale published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 — depicting two children abandoned in a forest by their parents who discover a candy house inhabited by a witch who fattens and eats children — one of the most psychologically intense tales in the Grimm canon.