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Fabula may refer to:
- Fabula, Law Latin for a contract or covenant
- Fabula and syuzhet, terms in Russian formalism
- Fabula (moth), genus of moths
- Fabula Award, Slovenian literary award
Fabula (von lat. fabula: „story, fable“) is a multilingual academic journal on international comparative folktale 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 as both print and online-edition. It was founded by the German scholar Kurt Ranke and is currently edited by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Christine Shojaei Kawan, 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.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in various Abstracting & Indexing Services, among them:
- Baidu Scholar
- Celdes
- EBSCO (relevant databases)
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- Elsevier - SCOPUS
- ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Google Scholar
- MLA International Bibliography
- SCImago (SJR)
- Thomson Reuters - Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Thomson Reuters – Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
- WorldCat (OCLC)
Usage examples of "fabula".
Nunc audite omnes, ite, vobis fabula narratur Nunc orate et laudate, laudat etiam Alma Mater.
Haec fabula docet: It is dangerous for a young man to leave off the use of tobacco.