Fabula (journal)

Fabula (from lat. "fabula": „story, fable“) is a multilingual academic journal on international comparative folklore studies with a focus on European narratives (such as fairy tales, sagas and fables). It publishes essays, reviews and conference reports in German, English and French. Its subtitle is: "Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung. Journal of Folktale Studies. Revue d'Etudes sur le Conte Populaire".
Since 1958, the journal "Fabula" has been published bi-annually at the publisher De Gruyter in Berlin and Boston and is available in both print and online-editions. It was founded by the German scholar Kurt Ranke and is currently edited by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Simone Stiefbold and Harm-Peer Zimmermann. It is closely connected to the multi-volume work "Enzyklopädie des Märchens" (Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales).
In 2014 it had an SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2014 of 0.100.
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