Maria Tatar, "The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Edition)"
W.W. Norton & Co | 1999 | ISBN: 0393972771 | 416 pages | siPDF | 6.2 MB
W.W. Norton & Co | 1999 | ISBN: 0393972771 | 416 pages | siPDF | 6.2 MB
The cultural resilience of fairy tales is incontestable. Surviving over the centuries and thriving in a variety of media, fairy tales continue to enrich our imaginations and shape our lives. This Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales examines the genre, its cultural implications—and its critical history. The editor has gathered fairy tales from around the world to reveal the range and play of these stories over time. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood,' "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel." It includes multicultural variants of these tales, along with sophisticated literary rescriptings.
Each tale type is preceded by an introduction, and annotations are provided throughout. Also included in this collection of over forty stories are tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. "Criticism" collects twelve essays that interrogate different aspects of fairy tales by exploring their social origins, historical evolution, psychological dynamics, and engagement with issues of gender and national identity. Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Darnton, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Karen E. Rowe, Marina Warner, Zohar Shavit, Jack Zipes, Donald Haase, Maria Tatar, Antti Aarne, and Vladimir Propp provide critical overviews. A Selected Bibliography is included.
About the Series—Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretation—from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory—as well as a bibliography and a chronology of the author's life and work.
Contents
IntroductionTags: FairyTales, Mythology, Literature, LiteraryCriticism
The Texts of The Classic Fairy Tales
Introduction: Little Red Riding Hood
The Story of Grandmother
Charles Perrault • Little Red Riding Hood
Brothers Grimm • Little Red Cap
James Thurber • The Little Girl and the Wolf
Italo Calvino • The False Grandmother
Chiang Mi • Goldflower and the Bear
Roald Dahl • Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
Roald Dahl • The Three Little Pigs
Introduction: Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont • Beauty and the Beast
Giovanni Francesco Straparola • The Pig King
Brothers Grimm • The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich
Angela Carter • The Tiger's Bride
Urashima the Fisherman
Alexander Afanasev • The Frog Princess
The Swan Maiden
Introduction: Snow White
Giambattista Basile • The Young Slave
Brothers Grimm • Snow White
Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland's Daughter
Anne Sexton • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Introduction: Cinderella
Yeh-hsien
Charles Perrault • Donkeyskin
Brothers Grimm • Cinderella
Joseph Jacobs • Catskin
The Story of the Black Cow
Lin Lan • Cinderella
The Princess in the Suit of Leather
Introduction: Bluebeard
Charles Perrault • Bluebeard
Brothers Grimm • Fitcher's Bird
Brothers Grimm • The Robber Bridegroom
Joseph Jacobs • Mr. Fox
Margaret Atwood • Bluebeard's Egg
Introduction: Hansel and Gretel
Brothers Grimm • Hansel and Gretel
Brothers Grimm • The Juniper Tree
Joseph Jacobs • The Rose-Tree
Charles Perrault • Little Thumbling
Pippety Pew
Joseph Jacobs • Molly Whuppie
Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid
The Little Match Girl
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf
The Red Shoes
Introduction: Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant
The Happy Prince
The Nightingale and the Rose
Criticism
Bruno Bettelheim • [The Struggle for Meaning]
Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament
Bruno Bettelheim • "Hansel and Gretel"
Robert Darnton • Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar • [Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother]
Karen E. Rowe • To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale
Marina Warner • The Old Wives' Tale
Zohar Shavit • The Concept of Childhood and Children's Folktales: Test Case—"Little Red Riding Hood"
The Concept of Childhood up to the Seventeenth Century
Relations between the Child's World and the Adult's World: From Unity to Polarization
The Spread of the Concept of Childhood into Society: Two Concepts
"Little Red Riding Hood": A Test Case of Attitudes towards Folktales from the Seventeenth Century On
Perrault's Version
Manipulating the Model: The Ambiguity of "Little Red Riding Hood"
The Basis for the Ambiguous Nature of the Text
The Function of the Duality of the Intended Audience
Differences between Versions of "Little Red Riding Hood": Perrault vs. the Brothers Grimm
Differences in Tone and Ending
Jack Zipes • Breaking the Disney Spell
The Oral and Literary Fairy Tales
Disney's Magical Rise
Casting the Commodity Spell with Snow White
Donald Haase • Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales
The Revered Place of Folklore
The Nationalistic View of Folklore
Bettelheim's Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Fairy Tales
The Question of Ownership
Discovering Individual Ownership of Fairy Tales
Maria Tatar • Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales
Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson • From The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography
Vladimir Propp
Folklore and Literature
From Morphology of the Folktale
The Method and Material
Thirty-One Functions
Propp's Dramatis Personae
Selected Bibliography
Anthologies
Critical Studies
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See Also:
Maria Tatar, "The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales"
Jack Zipes, "The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales"