New Resources in Folklore Studies: Experience of Creation and Using of Electronic Library of Fairy Tales Texts

Abstract

The authors give the brief characteristics of the electronic library of fairy tales. The given product represents a collection of electronic texts of fairy tales of the peoples of the world grouped on regions. The electronic collection of fairy tales allows to conduct search of characters and the subjects determining motives and plots of fairy tales that is very convenient for comparative and typological researches of various narrative genres.

Keywords

• folklore research
• folklore
• fairy tales
• typology
• plot and motive
• electronic library