The Literary Use of Folktale in Medieval Japan and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Literary Transformations of the Catskin Cinderella Tale in 'Oguri-Hogan' and Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Toner, Ritsuko Hirai.

Title
The Literary Use of Folktale in Medieval Japan and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Literary Transformations of the Catskin Cinderella Tale in 'Oguri-Hogan' and Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 48 (1987): 920A.

Description
Approached through anthropology, psychoanalysis, and theory of literary response, the two works resemble female initiation rituals.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.