Max Lüthi

Max Lüthi (1909 in Bern – 1991 in Zürich) was a Swiss literary theorist. He is considered the founder of formalist research on folk tales.

His first book is the field's foundational text, "a classic, a definitive statement about the nature, style, and form of the folktale genre in its European variety."

'''Lüthi's''' aim was to arrive at a "phenomenology of folk narrative as we find it in Europe" and "establish the essential laws of the genre." He identified five aspects of all folktales: one-dimensionality, depthlessness, abstraction, isolation, and all-inclusiveness.

He studied in Bern, Lausanne, London, and Berlin. Later in life he was one of the editors of the ''Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales''.

According to his obituary, he saw himself as among the last to undertake "narrative research of the old-fashioned kind." Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 1
    by Lüthi, Max
    Published 1969
    Classmark: 30688/294/295/296
    Book
  2. 2
    by Lüthi, Max
    Published 1976
    Classmark: 23443/16
    Book
  3. 3
    by Lüthi, Max
    Published 1961
    Classmark: 23938
    Book
  4. 4
    by Lüthi, Max
    Published 1970
    Classmark: 23937
    Book
  5. 5
    by Lüthi, Max
    Published 1975
    Classmark: 23886/1
    Book
  6. 6
    Published 1951
    Other Authors: “…Lüthi, Max…”
    Classmark: 23150
    Book
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