Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable. This Norton Critical Edition collects forty-four fairy tales, from the fifth century to the present. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel," and presents multicultural variants and sophisticated literary rescriptings. Also reprinted are tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde.
"Criticism" gathers twelve essays that interpret aspects of fairy tales, including their social origins, historical evolution, psychological drama, gender issues, and national identities.
作者简介:
Maria Tatar is the author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, and Lustmord: Sexual Violence in Weimar Germany. She is Professor of German at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on German cultural studies, folklore, and children’s literature.
【作者简介】
Maria Tatar is the author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, and Lustmord: Sexual Violence in Weimar Germany. She is Professor of German at Harvard University, where she teaches c
【目录】
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
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