The classic fairy tales : texts, criticism / edited by Maria Tatar.

Other author Tatar, Maria, 1945-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Norton, ©1999.
Descriptionxviii, 394 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Fairy tales--History and criticism.
Fairy tales.

SeriesA Norton critical edition
Norton critical edition. ^A538572
Contents Little Red Riding Hood. The story of grandmother -- Little Red Riding Hood / Charles Perrault -- Little Red Cap / Brothers Grimm -- The little girl and the wolf / James Thurber -- The false grandmother / Italo Calvino -- Goldflower and the bear / Chiang Mi -- Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf / Roald Dahl -- The three little pigs / Roald Dahl.
Contents Beauty and the beast. Beauty and the beast / Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont -- The pig king / Giovanni Francesco Straparola -- The frog king, or Iron Heinrich / Brothers Grimm -- The tiger's bride / Angela Carter -- Urashima the fisherman -- The frog princess / Alexander Alfanasev -- The swan maiden.
Contents Snow White. The young slave / Giambattista Basile -- Snow White / Brothers Grimm -- Lasair Gheug, the king of Ireland's daughter -- Snow White and the seven dwarfs / Anne Sexton.
Contents Cinderella. Yeh-hsien -- Donkeyskin / Charles Perrault -- Cinderella / Brothers Grimm -- Catskin / Joseph Jacobs -- The story of the black crow -- Cinderella / Lin Lan -- The princess in the suit of leather.
Contents Bluebeard. Bluebeard / Charles Perrault -- Fitcher's bird / Brothers Grimm -- The robber bridegroom / Brothers Grimm -- Mr. Fox / Joseph Jacobs -- Bluebeard's egg / Margaret Atwood.
Contents Hansel and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel / Brothers Grimm -- The juniper tree / Brothers Grimm -- The rose-tree / Joseph Jacobs -- Little Thumbling / Charles Perrault -- Pippety Pew -- Molly Whuppie / Joseph Jacobs.
Contents The little mermaid ; The little match girl ; The girl who trod on the load ; The red shoes / Hans Christian Andersen.
Contents The selfish giant ; The happy prince ; The nightingale and the rose / Oscar Wilde.
Contents Criticism. The struggle for meaning / Bruno Bettelheim -- Hansel and Gretel / Bruno Bettelheim -- Peasants tell tales : the meaning of Mother Goose / Robert Darnton -- Snow White and her wicked stepmother / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- To spin a yarn : the female voice in folklore and fairy tale / Karen E. Rowe -- The old wives' tale / Marina Warner -- The concept of childhood and children's folktales : test case : Little Red Riding Hood / Zohar Shavit -- Breaking the Disney spell / Jack Zipes -- Yours, mine, or ours? : Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the ownership of fairy tales / Donald Haase -- Sex and violence : the hard core of fairy tales / Maria Tatar -- from The types of the folktale : a classification and bibliography / Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson -- Folklore and literature / Vladimir Propp.
Abstract Examines the genre, cultural implications, and critical history of six classic fairy tales and presents twelve essays on the social origins and issues of gender and national identity present in many of these children's stories. Also explores tales by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Oscar Wilde, Charles Perrault, Joseph Jacobs, Margaret Atwood, James Thurber, Roald Dahl, et al.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 389-394).
LCCN 98013552
ISBN0393972771 (pbk.)
ISBN9780393972771 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks GR550 .C57 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold