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Stith Thompson

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1922

Active since

Affiliations

Indiana University(Current)

Stith Thompson is an author at Indiana University specializing in literary history, language studies, and poetics.

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Literary HistoryPoeticsLanguageCultural HistoryLiterary TheoryLiterary CriticismArtsFolklore StudiesClassicsAmerican Literature

Publications per year

1922–1970

18

Publications

18

The Types of the Folktale. A Classification and Bibliography

William A. Lessa, Antti Aarne, Stith Thompson · Journal of American Folklore · 1963 · 355 citations

Literary History, Mythology, Folklore Tradition +3

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

R. D. Jameson, Stith Thompson · Western Folklore · 1956 · 352 citations

Poetics, New Genre, Literary Theory

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folk-Tales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends

Archer Taylor, Stith Thompson · American Literature · 1935 · 279 citations

Literary Theory, First-person Narrative, Local Legends +22

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

Gordon Hall Gerould, Stith Thompson · Journal of American Folklore · 1936 · 137 citations

Poetics, New Genre, Literary Theory

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends

Kurt Ranke, Stith Thompson · Journal of American Folklore · 1958 · 131 citations

Literary Theory, Literary History, Literary Study +15

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