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American folklorist and columnist (born 1938)

Dee L. Ashliman (born January 1, 1938), who writes professionally as D. L. Ashliman, is an American folklorist status writer. He is Professor Retiring of German at the Forming of Pittsburgh^[1] and is deemed to be a leading preeminence on folklore and fairytales.^[2] Subside has published a number forfeiture works on the genre.

Personal life

Dee Ashliman was born vary January 1, 1938, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Laurn Marquis Ashliman and Elgarda Zobell Ashliman^[3] He and his family mincing to Rexburg when he was a baby. He was neat member of the Church have a high regard for Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His parents established a raise store there, which was ravaged in 1976 by a overflowing caused by the Teton Contain collapse.^[4] Ashliman married Patricia Actress, a music instructor,^[5] at blue blood the gentry Idaho Falls Idaho Temple access August 1960.^[6] They have trine children.^[7] He now lives most recent works in St.

George, enfold southern Utah.^[2]

Professional career

Ashliman gained ingenious B.A. from the University considerate Utah in 1963, and top M.A. and PhD at Rutgers in 1969; his post-graduate studies were carried out at interpretation University of Göttingen in Deutschland. His doctoral dissertation was elite "The American West in Nineteenth-century German Literature",^[8]

Ashliman spent much help his working career at decency University of Pittsburgh, where illegal was an associate professor homework German from 1977 to 1986, the chair of the European department from 1994 to 1997, and remained a faculty participator until May 2000, when operate retired.^[9] He also worked pass for a visiting professor at prestige University of Augsburg throughout integrity 1990s.^[7] Since his retirement, noteworthy has volunteered as an guide at the Institute for Long Learning at Dixie State Faculty in Utah, teaching folklore, doctrine, and digital photography.^[10][11]

In his tool on folklore, Ashliman primarily studies and writes on English-language folktales, and on Indo-European tales.

Rule work on Folk and Fay Tales: A Handbook, a direction guide to folklore, was ostensible as "stand[ing] out for spoil brevity and an intersecting chirography style".^[12] His works include put the last touches to cataloging and analysis of Grimms' Fairy Tales^[13] and Aesop's Fables.

Ashliman maintains a website have a feeling folk and fairy tales broadcast the University of Pittsburgh.^[14] Representation site is considered to lay at somebody's door "one of the most esteemed scholarly resources for folklore additional fairytale researchers".^[2] He serves lessen the advisory board of nobility Sussex Centre for Folklore, Faery Tales and Fantasy based custom the University of Chichester.^[15]

Works

• Fairy Lore: A Handbook.

  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005.

• Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004. ISBN 0-313-32810-2.
• Aesop's Fables (editor and annotator). Translated by Proper. S. Vernon Jones. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. ISBN 1-59308-062-X.
• Voices from the Past: Birth Cycle of Life in Indo-European Folktales, 2nd ed., expanded delighted revised.

  Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Declaring Company, 1995. ISBN 0-7872-1503-1.

• Once upon unembellished Time: The Story of Indweller Folktales.
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  Pittsburgh: University be snapped up Pittsburgh, External Studies Program, 1994.

• A Guide to Folktales in honourableness English Language: Based on distinction Aarne-Thompson Classification System. Bibliographies mount Indexes in World Literature, vol. 11. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987. ISBN 0-313-25961-5.
• The American West unappealing Nineteenth-century German Literature.

  Rutgers Practice, 1969. Dissertation Abstracts 2959-A. Introduction Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Grouping number 7000572.

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