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Dee L. Ashliman (born January 1, 1938), who writes professionally as D. L. Ashliman, is an American folklorist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Pittsburgh [1] and is considered to be a leading expert on folklore and fairytales. [2] He has published a number of works on the genre.
"Grimms' Fairy Tales in English" by D.L. Ashliman provides a hyperlinked list of 50 to 100 English-language collections that have been digitized and made available online. They were published in print from the 1820s to 1920s.
In 1961, an English-language translation was published by the Foreign Languages Press. [21] Bi describes The Scarecrow as the first major work of children's literature in modern China, [22] while You Chengcheng of the University of Macau calls it the first modern collection of Chinese fairy tales."
American folklorist D. L. Ashliman classified the tale in the Aarne-Thompson Index as type AaTh 554B*, "The Child Who Was Raised by An Eagle", [5] a tale type that is otherwise titled "The Boy in the Eagle's Nest" and features a male protagonist that is raised by an eagle. [6]
The main influences on Chinese folk tales have been Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. Some folktales may have arrived from Germany when Grimm brothers had contributed some materials for the folktales regard to the country life of the German dwellers since the 1840s; [ 2 ] others have no known western counterparts, but are widespread throughout ...
A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") , with the title A csillagász, a lopó, a vadász meg a szabó ("The Astronomer, the Thief, the Huntsman and the Tailor"). The English Fairy Tales channel on YouTube did an adaptation. [15]
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 432, "The Prince as Bird". [5] [6] Scholars Jack Zipes and D. L. Ashliman list the tale as a literary predecessor of the tale type. [7] [8] Philologist Gianfranco D'Aronco classified the tale as Italian type 432, The Bird Lover. [9]
The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies.The ATU index is the product of a series of revisions and expansions by an international group of scholars: Originally published in German by Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne (1910), [1] the index was translated into English, revised, and expanded by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1928 ...