The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions)

by Tatar, Maria

• ISBN13: 9780393972771
• ISBN10: 0393972771
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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. A Selected Bibliography isincluded.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Texts of The Classic Fairy Tales	1	(266)
INTRODUCTION: Little Red Riding Hood	3	(7)
The Story of Grandmother	10	(1)
Charles Perrault
Little Red Riding Hood	11	(2)
Brothers Grimm
Little Red Cap	13	(3)
James Thurber
The Little Girl and the Wolf	16	(1)
Italo Calvino
The False Grandmother	17	(2)
Chiang Mi
Goldflower and the Bear	19	(2)
Roald Dahl
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf	21	(1)
Roald Dahl
The Three Little Pigs	22	(3)
INTRODUCTION: Beauty and the Beast	25	(7)
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Beauty and the Beast	32	(10)
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
The Pig King	42	(5)
Brothers Grimm
The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich	47	(3)
Angela Carter
The Tiger's Bride	50	(16)
Urashima the Fisherman	66	(2)
Alexander Afanasev
The Frog Princess	68	(4)
The Swan Maiden	72	(2)
INTRODUCTION: Snow White	74	(6)
Giambattista Basile
The Young Slave	80	(3)
Brothers Grimm
Snow White	83	(7)
Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland's Daughter	90	(6)
Anne Sexton
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	96	(5)
INTRODUCTION: Cinderella	101	(6)
Yeh-hsien	107	(2)
Charles Perrault
Donkeyskin	109	(8)
Brothers Grimm
Cinderella	117	(5)
Joseph Jacobs
Catskin	122	(3)
The Story of the Black Cow	125	(2)
Lin Lan
Cinderella	127	(4)
The Princess in the Suit of Leather	131	(7)
INTRODUCTION: Bluebeard	138	(6)
Charles Perrault
Bluebeard	144	(4)
Brothers Grimm
Fitcher's Bird	148	(3)
Brothers Grimm
The Robber Bridegroom	151	(3)
Joseph Jacobs
Mr. Fox	154	(2)
Margaret Atwood
Bluebeard's Egg	156	(23)
INTRODUCTION: Hansel and Gretel	179	(5)
Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel	184	(6)
Brothers Grimm
The Juniper Tree	190	(7)
Joseph Jacobs
The Rose-Tree	197	(2)
Charles Perrault
Little Thumbling	199	(7)
Pippety Pew	206	(3)
Joseph Jacobs
Molly Whuppie	209	(3)
INTRODUCTION: Hans Christian Andersen	212	(4)
The Little Mermaid	216	(17)
The Little Match Girl	233	(2)
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf	235	(6)
The Red Shoes	241	(5)
INTRODUCTION: Oscar Wilde	246	(4)
The Selfish Giant	250	(3)
The Happy Prince	253	(8)
The Nightingale and the Rose	261	(6)
Criticism	267	(122)
Bruno Bettelheim
[The Struggle for Meaning]	269	(4)
Bruno Bettelheim
"Hansel and Gretel"	273	(7)
Robert Darnton
Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose	280	(11)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Susan Gubar
[Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother]	291	(6)
Karen E. Rowe
To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale	297	(12)
Marina Warner
The Old Wives' Tale	309	(8)
Zohar Shavit
The Concept of Childhood and Children's Folktales: Test Case -- "Little Red Riding Hood"	317	(15)
Jack Zipes
Breaking the Disney Spell	332	(21)
Donald Haase
Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales	353	(11)
Maria Tatar
Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales	364	(9)
Antti Aarne
Stith Thompson
From The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography	373	(5)
Vladimir Propp
Folklore and Literature	378	(4)
From Morphology of the Folktale	382	(1)
The Method and Material	382	(4)
Thirty-One Functions	386	(1)
Propp's Dramatis Personae	387	(2)
Selected Bibliography	389