I-XII -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: Narrative Patterns -- The Innocent Persecuted Heroine: An Attempt at a Model for the Surface Level of the Narrative Structure of the Female Fairy Tale -- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: An Attempt at a Model for the Narrative Structure of the Reward-and-Punishment Fairy Tale -- The Morphology of the French Fairy Tale: The Ethical Model -- Fundamentals of a Grammar of Oral Literature -- A Model for Narrative Structure in Oral Literature -- Modeling Propp and Lévi-Strauss in a Metasymbolic Simulation System -- SECTION TWO: Patterns of Content -- Lévi-Strauss' Myth of Method -- Scandinavian Mythology as a System of Oppositions -- Content Analysis of Oral Literature: A Discussion -- APPENDICES -- The Problem of "Tale Role" and "Character" in Propp's Work -- List of Propp's Functions -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Aarne-Thompson Numbers Discussed in Papers