TY - BOOK AU - Rugg, G AU - Petre, M TI - A gentle guide to research methods SN - 9780335219278 PY - 2007/// CY - Maidenhead PB - Open University Press KW - Research Methods N1 - Definition and classification -- ""The pied piper"" as folktale -- Origin of ""The pied piper"" -- History and dissemination -- Significance and survival -- The phrase ""to pay the piper"" -- ""The pied piper"" as ambivalent symbol -- Examples and texts -- Early variants of ""The pied piper"" -- ""The pied piper"" and the Brothers Grimm -- Later variants of the folktale -- The English ""Pied piper"" tradition -- ""Pied piper"" folk songs -- Scholarship and approaches -- Comprehensive studies -- Historical analyses -- Folkloristic investigations -- Literary reconsiderations -- Contexts -- Robert Browning's ""The pied piper of Hamelin"" -- ""Pied piper"" poems -- Prose, drama, music, and film adaptations -- Caricatures, cartoons, and comic strips -- Art, cards, stamps, and puzzles -- The pied piper in advertisements -- ""Pied piper"" book titles and headlines -- The folklorism of Hamelin." ER -