The Studies of Readers' Responses to 'The Snake,''The Gold Apple,' and 'Per Smed's Whip' in Spring 1981. Fairytale: An Interdisciplinary Turco-Danish Study of the Collective v. the Individual Nature of the Response to Literature. Report No. 13. Revised.

Summaries of the Danish internal reports of the essay studies, the introspection studies, and the literary analyses that are part of the larger interdisciplinary Turko-Danish Fairytale Project concerning the collective versus the individual nature of the response to literature are presented in this report. Various sections of the five papers provide descriptions of (1) the essay study, (2) the participating classes and the distribution of the sexes in each, (3) the mode of data analysis, and (4) the readers in the introspection study. The paper also contains questions used for each fairytale, sample responses to the individual tales, sample protocols, and the study results for each of the three tales: "The Snake, the Fox, and the Man,""The Gold Apple," and "Per Smed's Whip." (HOD)