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In The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination, Steven Swann Jones draws upon his extensive knowledge of the genre to provide readers with a study that is at once a sorely needed introduction to the subject and an original contribution to existing scholarship. Step by step, Jones guides the reader in understanding and appreciating the genre's origins and its evolution over the past 3,000 years; synthesizes the various approaches - psychological,...
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Contains an essay which discusses the fairy tale as a form of literature which offers a combination of values peculiar to itself as well as a short story, "Leaf by Niggle," which is an apt illustration of ideas suggested in the epilogue to the essay.
As all readers of J.R.R. Tolkien know, fairy stories are not just for children. His masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, is a fairy story, but is also an epic which has been acclaimed as a work of genius...
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In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max L thi, thetraditional fairytale is examined from two related points of view, that ofaesthetics and that of anthropology. L thi shows that fairytales are more than justa pleasing form; they present a particular way of looking at the world and at humanexistence. Thus, they must be evaluated in terms of what they say about man and thehuman condition. This exemplary study will be read with enjoymentand...
7) Fairy tale
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Introduction -- Definitions -- The emergence of a literary genre, Italy and France -- The consolidation of a genre Grimm and Andersen -- Critical and conceptual approaches -- Psychoanalysis, history and ideology -- Conclusion.
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Introduction by Derek Brewer. The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Germany and Russia, as well as India, where...
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A rich tapestry of 19 essays by respected authors Alan Dundes, Simon A. Grolnick, Kay F. Stone, and Jack Zipes, this work offers a cultural-sociological treatment of fairy tales. The subtitle indicates its theoretical framework-illusion: how fairy tales represent and misrepresent reality; allusion: how the tales as a body of shared knowledge are used by society and a particular culture; paradigm: how the tales provide patterns for understanding the...
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"Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature. As the simple expression of complex thought, fairy tales have increasingly become the focus of intense scholarly inquiry. In this Companion, international scholars from a range of academic disciplines...
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Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over her long writing career, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and...
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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.
16) The great fairy tale tradition: from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm : texts, criticism
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"Jack Zipes holds that the Grimms collected their tales from the oral traditions of peasants. This is simply not so. Rather, the Grimms took most of their tales from literary sources, rewriting them again and again. These tales are based on a great literary tradition, which this volume documents. The fairy tales - 116 in all - are grouped thematically and are accompanied by detailed introductions and annotations." "Brief biographies of the storytellers...
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"Jack Zipes begins this lively and provocative work by exploring the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classic fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression in Western society." "The fairy tale received its most "mythic" formation and articulation in America....
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In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Rumpelstiltskin, Pinocchio and Rapunzel vividly dramatize lust, envy, avarice and sloth on a safe stage, allowing children to confront their own "deadly sins." Cashdan offers elegant analyses of how fairy tales speak...
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