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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

The Classic Fairy Tales

Contents

  • Introduction
  • 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
    • Brother 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
    • Brother 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]
  • 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"
  • Jack Zipes, Breaking the Disney Spell
  • Donald Haase, Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales
  • Maria Tater, 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