Recommended Reading

Aarne, Antti. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Trans. and
enlarged by Stith Thompson. 2nd revision. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1961. [Not on
Reserve, but permanently in the General Reference section at Z 5983 F17A2 1961] (A listing and
categorization of hundreds of story types. The method is criticized in Propp, "The Principles of
Classifying Folklore Genres" in his Theory and History of Folklore, pp. 39-47, below, and by
others, but the book is one of the basic studies.)

Auden, W.H. "Grimm and Andersen." In Forewords and Afterwords. Ed. Edward Mendelson.
New York: Random House/Vintage, 1973. 198-208. (A very short but enlightening essay, first
published 1952.)

Auerbach, Nina, and U.C. Knoepflmacher, eds. Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and
Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. [PR
1309 F3 F6]

Bacchilega, Cristina. Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies. Philadelphia
: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. [GR 550 B33 1997]

Barchilon, Jacques. "Beauty and the Beast: From Myth to Fairy Tale." Psychoanalysis and the
Psychoanalytic Review 46 (1959): 19-29.

--. "Uses of the Fairy Tale in the Eighteenth Century." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century 24 (1963): 111-138.

Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells, eds. From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of
Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. [PN 1999 W27 F76
1995] (Includes, among other essays: Zipes, "Breaking the Disney Spell"; Giroux, "Memory and
Pedagogy in the 'Wonderful World of Disney'"; Card, "Pinocchio"; Bell, "Somatexts at the Disney
Shop: Constructing the Pentimentos of Women's Animated Bodies"; "'The Whole World was
Scrubbed Clean': The Androcentric Animation of Denatured Disney"; Jeffords, "The Curse of
Masculinity: Disney's Beauty and the Beast"; Sells, "'Where Do the Mermaids Stand?': Voice
and Body in The Little Mermaid"; Haas, "'Eighty-Six the Mother': Murder, Matricide, and Good
Mothers")

Benjamin, Walter. "The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nicolai Leskov." In
Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. 83-109. [PT 107 B313
1969] (A remarkable piece on storytelling by one of the greatest of 20th-century critics. You
don't have to know anything about Leskov to get a lot from this essay. Folklorists may have some
trouble with this essay which is not very clear on the problems of transmission and performance.
Zipes' response is generally approving: "Revisiting Benjamin's 'The Storyteller': Reviving the Past
to Move Forwards" in Happily Ever After, 129-42, 152.)

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. [GR 550 B47 1976] (Bettelheim's largely Freudian
interpretation is rejected by Zipes, Breaking the Magic Spell, chapter 6, and by Heisig, both
listed below. Alan Dundes, a folklore scholar, has shown that Bettelheim may have plagiarized
work from an earlier scholar writing in German. Yet Bettelheim's book has been very influential in
introducing readers to the possibility of a serious, psychological reading of children's literature and
can be read with profit, even if only to disagree. For other psychological critics, see Marie-Louise
von Franz and Erich Fromm, below.)

Blackwell, Jeannine. "The Many Names of Rumpelstiltskin: Recent Research on the Grimms'
Kinder- und Haus-Märchen." The Germanic Quarterly 63 (1990): 107-22.

Bloch, Ernst. "Introduction" (1:3-18) and "Better Castles in the Air in Fair and Circus, in Fairytale
and Colportage" (1:352-69) in The Principle of Hope, trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice and
Paul Knight. 3 vols. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

--. "The Fairy Tale Moves on in its Own Time" in The Utopian Function of Art and Literature.
Trans Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenburg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. 162-6.

Bolte, Johannes, and Georg Polívka. Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der
Brüder Grimm. 5 vols. Leipzig: Dieterich, 1913-32. Rpt. Hildesheim: Gerog Olms, 1963. [GR
166 G67 1963 v. 1-5] (An extraordinary reference work that compiles all the known versions for
each of the tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.)

Bottigheimer, Ruth B., ed. Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. [GR 550 F25 1986] (A collection of essays
on a wide range of topics relating to fairy and folk tales. Offers a glimpse into the current methods
and concerns of research in folklore studies.)

--. Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the "Tales". New
Haven and London: Yale UP, 1987. [PT 921 B67 1987] (A study of motif, plot, and image in the
tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.)

--. "The Transformed Queen: A Search for the Origins of Negative Female Archetypes in
Grimms' Fairy Tales." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 10 (1980) 1-12.

Brewer, Derek. Symbolic Stories: Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in English
Literature. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1980. [PR 1309 F31 B847 1980] (For the presentation of
the family in fairy tales, see pp. 15-53.)

Canepa, Nancy. From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto de li Cunti and the
Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999.

--, ed. Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1997. [On order]

Cox, Marian Roalfe. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants ... 1892; rpt.
Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1967. [GR 75 C4C5 1967] (See also Dundes and Philips below.)

Crane, T.F. "The External History of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen of the Brothers Grimm."
Modern Philology 19 (1917): 557-611.

Darnton, Robert. "Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose" in his The Great Cat
Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
9-72. [DC 33.4 D37 1984] (A historical context for the Mother Goose stories, looked at from
the peasant end of society. Contrast this with the approach by Thelander, below.)

David, Alfred, and Mary Elizabeth David, "A Literary Approach to the Brothers Grimm."
Journal of the Folklore Institute 1 (1964): 180-196.

Dégh, Linda. Folktales and Society: Story-telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community.
Trans. Emily M. Schossberger. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1969. [GR 158 D4253]

--. "Grimms' Household Tales and Its Place in the Household: The Social Relevance of a
Controversial Classic." Western Folklore 38 (1979): 83-103. (This essay, which offers a
compact history of the composition and reception of the Grimms' tales, is well known to scholars.
Reprinted in Michael M. Metzger and Katharina Mommsen, ed., Fairy Tales as Ways of
Knowing: Essays on Märchen in Psychology, Society and Literature [Bern, etc.: Peter Lang,
1981], 21-53; the collection also has Linda Dégh's "The Magic Tale and Its Magic," 54-74 [GR
550 F28 1981].)

--. "What Did the Brothers Grimm Give to and Take from the Folk?" in McGlathery et al., eds.,
The Brothers Grimm and Folktale, 66-90.

Delarue, Paul. "Les contes merveilleux de Perrault et la tradition populaire: introduction" Bulletin
folklorique de l"Ile de France ns 12 (1951) 195-201.

--. "Les contes merveilleux de Perrault: faits et rapprochements nouveaux" Arts et traditions
populaires (1954) 1-22, 251-75.

Dickens, Charles. "Frauds on the Fairies" in Household Words 8 (1853-4) 97-100. (Dickens
celebrated attack on the Fairy Library of George Cruikshank, with Dickens' own version of the
Cinderella story. The article was published 1 October 1853. Cruikshank replied in a broadsheet,
in an article in George Cruikshank's Magazine, February 1854, and in an attached appendix to
his Puss in Boots, one of his later fairy tales. In these he is also answering another item by
Dickens, "Whole Hogs" Household Words 3 (1851) 505-7, an attack on fanatics of temperance,
vegetarianism, etc. Cruikshank was a reformed drunk. For background, see Harry Stone,
"Dickens, Cruikshank, and Fairy Tales," Princeton University Library Chronicle 35 [1973-4]:
212-47; there is also Michael Kotzin, Dickens and the Fairy Tale [Bowling Green: Bowling
Green University Popular Press, 1972] [Kotzin not in Library].)

Dorfman, Ariel. The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other
Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds. New York: Pantheon, 1983. [PN 56 P55D66 1983] (A
disquieting look at some of the characters in popular culture, examined from a leftist point of view.
By the author of How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
[London: International General, 1975] which has been translated and read all over the world.)

Dorson, Richard. "The Eclipse of Solar Mythology" Journal of American Folklore 68 (1955):
393-416. (An account of a fascinating chapter in the history of interpretation of folklore which
explains the recurrent images in myths and tales as originating in ancient Indo-European myths.
The theory was rejected, though the approach still lingers on in the Jungian theories of tales.
Reprinted in Dundes, ed., The Study of Folklore, 53-83.)

Dundes, Alan. "Bruno Bettehleim's Uses of Enchantment and Abuses of Scholarship." Journal of
American Folklore 104 (1991): 74-83.

--, ed. Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook. New York: Garland, 1982. [GR 75 C4 C4 1982]
(See also Cox, above, and Philips, below, both on Cinderella; also Hearne on Bluebeard and
Zipes on Little Red Ridinghood, below.)

--. "Interpreting Little Red Riding Hood Psychoanalytically" in McGlathery et al., eds., The
Brothers Grimm and Folktale, 16-51. (Reprinted in Dundes Little Red Riding Hood: A
Casebook, next item)

--, ed. Little Red Riding Hood: A Folklore Casebook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1989.

--. "The Psychoanalytic Study of the Grimms' Tales with Special Reference to 'The Maiden
Without Hands' (AT 706)." Germanic Review 42 (1987): 50-65.

--, ed. The Study of Folklore. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. [GR 45 D8] (An
excellent collection with some important essays reprinted: e.g., Dorson, Olrick, Raglan.)

--. "The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs in the Rabbit-Hert (AT 570)." Arv (1980): 91-98.

--. "The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs: Towards a Method of Analyzing Folktales." In
Geneviève Calame-Griaule, et al., eds., Le conte, pourquoi? comment? / Folktales, Why and
How? Paris: Editions du Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984. 187-97. [GR 72 C761
1984]

Ellis, John M. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1983. [PT 921 E44 1983] (Ellis's vigorously argued position that
that the Grimm brothers did not tell the whole truth about their method of collection and writing of
the tales is in part rebutted by Jack Zipes "Mountains out of Mole Hills, a Fairy Story,"
Children's Literature 13 [1985] 215-19.)

Fine, Elizabeth. The Folkloric Text: From Performance to Print. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1984. [GR 40 F47 1984] (Outlines methods in analysis of performance, an
aspect of story-telling that is important in the history of the transmission of folktale and fairy tale.)

Fischer, J.L. "The Sociopsychological Analysis of Folktales." Current Anthropology 4 (1963):
235-95.

von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Revised edition. Boston:
Shambala, 1996. [GR 550 F714 1996] (Von Franz is a Jungian psychologist. Her books are all
interpretations based on the archetypal psychology of C.G. Jung.)

--. An Introduction to the Psychology of Fairy Tales. New York: Spring, 1970. [Not in
library.]

--. Problems of the Feminine in Fairytales. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1972. [GR 470 F72
1972]

--. Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales. Boston: Shambhala, 1995. [GR 550 F72 1995]

Fromm, Erich. The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams,
Fairy Tales and Myths. New York: Rinehart, 1951. [BF 1078 F84] (A general study of dream
symbolism, with a short section on Little Red Ridinghood, by a celebrated psycho-analyst in the
Freudian tradition, though tempered by an awareness that his theory has an economic and social
significance.)

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and
the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. [PR
115 G5] (One of the standard texts in feminist literary criticism. Has a number of passages on
fairy tales.)

Haase, Donald, ed. The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales : Responses, Reactions, Revisions.
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1993. [PT 921 R4 1993]

Hearne, Betsy. Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. [PQ 1995 L75 B434 1989] (A fine analysis of a
single story and its variants, unfortunately a bit too early for the Walt Disney movie; see also
Dundes and Zipes.)

Heisig, James W. "Bruno Bettelheim and the Fairy Tales." Children's Literature 6 (1977):
93-115. [Journal not in Library; copy with WB] (A critique of Bettelheim's book.)

Holbek, Bengt. Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1987. (FF
Communications no 239) [GR 1 F55 no 239] (A massive study of the imaginative structure of the
fairy tale as it moves from the oral to the written form. Though the concentration is on Danish
materials, the several-hundred-page section on "Method" is a wide-ranging survey of critical
approaches to the fairy tale.)

Jolles, André. Einfache Formen. Legende, Sage, Mythe, Rätsel, Spruch, Kasus, Memorabile,
Märchen, Witz. [1930]. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1974. [PN 45.5 J6 1930] (Also available in a
French translation: Formes simples. Trans. Antoine Marie Buguet. Paris: Seuil, 1972. [PN 45
J614 1972])

Jones, Steven Swann. The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination. Boston: Twayne,
1995. [PN 3437 J66 1995]

Jung, C.G. "The Phenomenology of the Trickster in Fairytales." Collected Works. Trans. R.F.C.
Hull. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1959. 9/1: Kamenetsky, Christa. The Brothers Grimm and their
Critics: Folktales and the Quest for Meaning. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992. [PD 63
K36 1992B]

King, James Roy. Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-shadow World. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1992. [GR 550 K56 1992]

Knoepflmacher, U.C. Ventures into Childland : Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [PR 990 K58 1998]

Lewis, Philip. Seeing through the Mother Goose Tales: Visual Turns in the Writings of
Charles Perrault. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. [PQ 1877 L49 1996]

Lieberman, Marcia. "'Some Day My Prince Will Come': Female Acculturation through the Fairy
Tale." College English 34 (1972): 383-95. (A feminist reading of fairy tales. Also reprinted in
Zipes, Don't Bet on the Prince, pp. 185-200, below; for a bleaker feminist reading, see Gilbert
and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic, above.)

Lüthi, Max. The European Folktale: Form and Nature. Trans. John D. Niles. Philadelphia:
Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982. [GR 135 L8313]

--. The Fairy Tale as Art Form and Portrait of Man. Trans. Jon Erickson. Bloomington:
University of Indiana Press, 1985. [PN 3437 L79813 1984] (One of the most interesting of the
full-length critical studies of the genre by one of the greatest scholars in the field. This will seem a
bit difficult to the beginner.)

--. Once upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Trans. Lee Chadeayne and Paul
Gottwald. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1970. [PN 3437 L7813] (A shorter and more
accessible discussion than the preceding.)

McGlathery, James M. Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1991. [PN 3437 M34 1991]

--. Grimm's Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Columbia, SC :
Camden House, c1993. [PT 921 M38 1993]

--, with Larry W. Danielson, Ruth E. Lorbe, and Selma K. Richardson, eds. The Brothers
Grimm and Folktale. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1988. [PT 921 B76 1988]

Meletinsky, Eleazar, et al. "Problems of the Structural Analysis of Fairy-tales." In Soviet
Structuralist Folkloristics, ed. P. Maranda. The Hague: Mouton, 1974. 73-189. [GR 40 M27
V.1 1974]

Mieder, Wolfgang. "Grim Variations," in his Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987. [GR 72 M53 1987]

Mieder, Wolfgang, ed. Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. [PR 1195 F343 D57 1985]

Olrick, Axel. "Epic Laws of Folk Narrative." In Alan Dundes, ed. The Study of Folklore.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965. [GR 45 D8]

Ortutay, Gyula. "Principles of Oral Transmission in Folk Culture." Acta Ethnographica 8 (1959):
175-221.

Philip, Neil. The Cinderella Story. London: Penguin Books, 1989. [GR 75 C4 P55 1989]
(Twenty-four versions of the Cinderella story, treated at greater length by Cox and by Dundes,
above.)

Propp, Vladimir. The Morphology of the Folktale. Trans. Laurence Scott. 2nd ed. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1968. [GR 65 P7613 1968] (A study of story structures in the
folktale. First published in Russian in 1928. The work is quite technical but short, and has been
enormously influential. It was criticized by Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist, in
1960; his essay, and Propp's intemperate rebuttal, are given in English in Propp, Theory and
History, 167-88 and 67-81respectively.)

--. Theory and History of Folklore. Trans. Ariadna Y. Martin and Richard P. Martin.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. [GR 202 P7513 1984] (An anthology of
writings by Propp; for the more advanced reader.)

Raglan, Fitzroy Richard Somerset, Baron. The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama.
London: Methuen, 1936. [BL 325 H46 R3] (First given as a lecture to the English Folklore
Society in 1934, the shorter version "The Hero of Tradition" is reprinted in Dundes, ed., The
Study of Folklore, 142-57. Raglan enumerates 22 stages in the life story of the hero. See article
by Archer Taylor, below, who summarizes the scholarship.)

Rank, Otto. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and Other Writings. Trans. F. Robbins and
S.E. Jelliffe, et al. Ed. Philip Freund. New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1964. [BL 313
R263 1964] (The title essay is a description of the story cycle of the hero, written from an early
psycho-analytic viewpoint. First published in English in 1914. See article by Archer Taylor,
below, who summarizes the scholarship.)

Rebel, Hermann. "Why Not 'Old Marie' . . . or Someone Very Much Like Her? A Reassessment
of the Question about the Grimms' Contributors from a Social Historical Perspective." Social
History 13 (1988): 1-24.

Röhrich, Lutz. Folktales and Reality. Trans. Peter Tokofsky. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1991. [GR 550 R613 1991]

Róheim, Géza. Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore. Ed. Alan
Dundes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. [GR 42 R6413 1992]

Rowe, Karen E. "Feminism and Fairy Tales." Women's Studies 6 (1979): 237-57.

Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1978. [PN 1009 A1 S24]

Seifert, Lewis C. Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715 : Nostalgic
Utopias. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [PQ 637 F27 S45 1996]

Soriano, Marc. "From Tales of Warning to Formulettes: The Oral Tradition in French Children's
Literature." Yale French Studies 43 (1969): 24-56.

--. Les Contes de Perrault. Culture savante et traditions populaires. Rev. ed. Paris:
Gallimard, 1977. [Not in Library] (An excellent study of Perrault, which sets out to explain why
Perrault undertook to write the tales for children and to what extent they embody important
philosophical and cultural insights. The second edition is prefaced by an interview of Soriano by
Jacques Le Goff and Emannual Le Roy Ladurie, two leading historians.)

Stewart, Susan. Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. [P 302 S69]

Stone, Kay F."Burning Brightly: New Light From an Old Tale," in Joan Radner, ed. Feminist
Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

--. Burning Brightly: New Light on Old Tales Today. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1998.
[Not in Library] (A study of contemporary oral story-telling practices.)

--. "Fairy Tales for Adults: Walt Disney's Americanization of the Märchen." In Nikolai Burlakoff
and Carl Lindahl, eds., Folklore on Two Continents: Essays in Honor of Linda Dégh.
Bloomington: U of Indiana P, 1980.

--. "Feminist Approaches to the Interpretations of the Fairy Tales," in Bottigheimer, ed., Fairy
Tales and Society.

--, "The Misuses of Enchantment: Controversies on the Significance of Fairy Tales," in Rosan A.
Jordan and Susan J. Kalcik, eds., Women's Folklore, Women's Culture, Philadelphia, 1985.

--. "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us," in Claire Farrer, ed. Women and Folklore. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1975.

--. "Three Transformations of Snow White," in McGlatherty, et al., eds., The Brothers Grimm
and the Folktale, 52-65.

Sutton, Martin. The Sin-complex: A Critical Study of English Versions of the Grimms'
Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the Nineteenth Century. Kassel: Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaft,
1996. [PT 921 S87 1996 (to come)]

Sydow, Carl Wilhelm von. Selected Papers on Folklore. Ed Laurits Bødker. Copenhagen:
Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1948. [GR 20 S9] (A very important figure in the history of the
scholarship. Devised the notions of "active" and "passive" bearers of traditional tales and also the
idea of the "oicotype," which refers to that version of a tale tied to a particular region or place.)

Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1987. [PT 921 T38 1987] (An excellent introduction to ways of reading the tales that
were collected and, to some degree, rewritten by the Grimm brothers.)

--. Off with their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1992. [GR 550 T38 1992] (A well-written scholarly critique of ideas
concerning the moral and educative function of the tales.)

Taylor, Archer. "The Biographical Pattern in Traditional Narrative." Journal of the Folklore
Institute 1 (1964) 114-29. (Summarizes the hero legend as it is analysed in von Hahn, Rank,
Raglan, Propp, and Campbell.)

Thelander, Dorothy R. "Mother Goose and Her Goslings: The France of Louis XIV as Seen
through the Fairy Tale." Journal of Modern History 54 (1982): 467-96. (A study of the
17th-century historical background to the symbolic forms in the fairy tales of Perrault and others.)

Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1946; rpt. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1977. [GR 74 T47 1977] (Still a standard account of the folktale
as a world phenomenon, with a fascinating account of different types of tales, characters, motifs,
and other features.)

-- . Motif-index of Folk-literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales,
Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-books, and Local
Legends. 6 vols. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1955-8. [GR 67 T52 vols 1-6] (The
master index of motifs, covering a huge range of texts from all over the world.)

Tolkien, J.R.R. "On Fairy-Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 9-73. [PN
3437 T6 1989] (Attempt at definition of the genre followed by comments on the supernatural, the
fantastic, and other aspects of the tale. Tolkien was a philologist and literary historian as well as a
novelist and his comments are the more interesting because of his double perspective. The essay
was originally a lecture delivered in 1939.)

Tucker, Nicholas. "Fairy Tales and their Early Opponents: In Defence of Mrs Trimmer." In Mary
Hilton, Morag Styles, and Victor Watson, eds. Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing,
and Childhood, 1600-1900. London & New York: Routledge, 1997. 104-16. [PR 990 O64
1997] (Brief study of the moralizing trend in the history of fairy tales.)

Wardetsky, Kristin. "The Structure and Interpretation of Fairy Tales Composed by Children."
Journal of American Folklore 103 (1990): 157-76.

Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. [GR 550 W38 1995] (Excellent and wide-ranging popular
account, but strangely disappointing if you are looking for a strong and sustained thesis based on
scholarly research.)

Weber, Eugen. "Fairies and Hard Facts: The Reality of Folktales." Journal of the History of
Ideas 42 (1981): 93-113. (A compelling thesis, often referred to, that you can find in the fairy
tales evidence of the economic and social hardship of earlier times. See also the essay by
Darnton.)

Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1979. [PN 3437 Z79 1979] (Readings of the tales that work to return
them to history, politics, and the reality of everyday life. The chapters are 1 "Once there was a
Time: An Introduction to the History and Ideology of Folk and Fairy Tales"; 2 "Might Makes
Right -- The Politics of Folk and Fairy Tales"; 3 "The Revolutionary Rise of the Romantic Fairy
Tale in Germany"; 4 "The Instrumentalization of Fantasy: Fairy Tales, the Culture Industry and
Mass Media"; 5 "The Utopian Function of Fairy Tales and Fantasy: Ernst Bloch the Marxist and
J.R.R. Tolkien the Catholic"; 6 "On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children:
Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand")

--. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York &
London: Routledge, 1988. [PD 63 Z57 1988] (Essays are: "Once There Were Two Brothers
Named Grimm: A Reintroduction"; "Dreams of a Better Bourgeios Life: The Psycho-Social
Origins of the Tales"; "Exploring Historical Paths"; "From Odysseus to Tom Thumb and Other
Cunning Heroes: Speculations about the Entrepreneurial Spirit"; "The German Obsession with
Fairy Tales"; "Henri Pourrat and the Tradition of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm"; "Recent
Psychoanalytical Approaches with Some Questions about the Abuse of Children"; "Semantic
Shifts of Power in Folk and Fairy Tales"; "Fairy Tale as Myth / Myth as Fairy Tale." Zipes has
also translated the tales of the Grimm brothers [1987], now also in a 2-volume Bantam
paperback.)

--. Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and
England. Aldershot: Gower, 1986. [PS 648 F4 D66 1986] (Has both examples of modern tales
and some critical writing on fairy tales from a feminist perspective.)

--. Fairy Tale as Myth / Myth as Fairy Tale. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky,
1994. [GR 550 Z56 1994] (A series of lectures: 1 "The Origins of the Fairy Tale"; 2
"Rumpelstiltskin and the Decline of Female Productivity"; 3 "Breaking the Disney Spell"; 4
"Spreading Myths about Iron John"; 5 "Oz as American Myth"; 6, "The Contemporary American
Fairy Tale")

--. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the
Process of Civilization. New York: Wildman Press, 1983. [GR 74 Z56 1983] (A series of
linked essays: "Fairy Tale Discourse: Towards a Social History of the Genre"; "Setting Standards
for Civilization through Fairy Tales: Charles Perrault and his Associates"; "Who's Afraid of the
Brothers Grimm? Socialization and Politicization through Fairy Tales"; "Hans Christian Andersen
and the Discourse of the Dominated"; "Inverting and Subverting the World with Hope: The Fairy
Tales of George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde and L. Frank Baum"; "The Fight over Fairy-Tale
Discourse: Family, Friction, and Socialization in the Weimar Republic and Nazi German"; "The
Liberating Potential of the Fantastic in Contemporary Fairy Tales for Children")

--. Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. New York:
Routledge, 1997. [GR 550 Z58 1997] ("Of Cats and Men: Framing the Civilizing Discourse of
the Fairy Tale"; "The Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales: The Case of
Hansel and Gretel"; "Toward a Theory of the Fairy-Tale Film: The Case of Pinocchio"; "Once
upon a Time beyond Disney: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Films for Children"; "Lion Kings and the
Culture Industry"; "Revisiting Benjamin's 'The Storyteller': Reviving the Past to Move Forward")

--. The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. 2nd ed. New York and London:
Routledge, 1993.[PN 1001 Z5 1993] (Zipes' article on the visual imagery of the story, "A
Second Gaze at Little Red Riding Hood's Trials and Tribulations," is reprinted in his Don't Bet on
the Prince, pp. 226-60. See also Dundes, above.)

--, ed. Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves. London: Routledge, 1989.
[PR 1309 F26 V5 1987] (An anthology of tales, with minimal annotation.)

--. When Dreams Come True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. New York:
Routledge, 1999. [Not in library] (Contains previously published introductions to a number of
collections that Zipes edited: "Spells of Enchantment: An Overview of the History of Fairy Tales";
"The Rise of the French Fairy Tale and the Decline of France"; "The Splendour of the Arabian
Nights"; "Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm"; "Hans Christian Andersen and the
Discourse of the Dominated"; "The Flowering of the Fairy Tale in Victorian England"; "Oscar
Wilde's Tales of Illumination"; "Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as Tragi-Comic Fairy Tale"; Frank
Stockton, American Pioneer of Fairy Tales"; "L. Frank Baum and the Utopian Spirit of Oz";
"Hermann Hesse's Fairy Tales and the Pursuit of Home")

Anthony, Edward and Joseph. The Fairies Up-to-Date. London: Thornton Butterworth, c. 1920.

Broumas, Olga. Beginning with O. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Carryl, Guy Wetmore. Grimm Tales Made Gay. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902.

Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. London: Gollancz, 1979.

Dahl, Roald. Revolting Rhymes. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

Donoghue, Emma. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins. New York: Harper Collins, 1997.

Gearhart, Sally Miller. "Roja and Leopold" in And A Deer's Ear, Eagle's Song and Bear's Grace: Animals and Women, Eds. Theresa Corrigan and Stephanie Hoppe. Pittsburgh: Cleis, 1990./

Hay, Sara Henderson. Story Hour. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1982.

Heriz, Patrick de. Fairy Tales with a Twist. London: Peter Lunn, 1946.

Husain, Shahrukh. Handsome heroines: Women as Men in Folklore. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Janosch. Not Quite as Grimm. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1974.

Kramer, Rita. "Rumpelstiltskin: His Story." South Dakota Review 25 (Summer, 1987): 78-81.

Lee, Tanith. Red as Blood, or Tales of the Sisters Grimmer. New York: DAW, 1983.

Redgrove, Peter. The One Who Set Out to Study Fear. London: Bloomsbury, 1989.

Scieszka, Jon and Lane Smith. The Stinky Cheese and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. New York: Viking, 1992.

Sexton, Anne. Transformations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

Strauss, Gwen. Trail of Stones. London: Julia MacRae Books, 1990.

Velde, Vivian Vande. Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

Walker, Nancy. Feminist Fairy Tales. San Francisco, 1996.

Wells, Joel. Grim Fairy Tales for Adults. New York: Macmillan, 1967.

Yolen, Jane. Tales of Wonder. New York: Schocken Books, 1983.

________. Dragonfield and Other Stories. London: Futura, 1985.

Selected Anthologies:

Attic Press. Rapunzel's Revenge. Dublin: Attic Press, 1985.

________. Sweeping Beauties. Dublin: Attic Press, 1989.

Auerbach, Nina and U.C. Knoepflmacher, Eds. Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Carter, Angela, Ed. The Virago Book of Fairy Tales. London: Virago, 1990.

Datlow, Ellen and Terri Windling, eds. Black Thorn, White Rose. New York: William Morrow, 1993.

________., eds. Snow White, Blood Red. New York: William Morrow, 1994.

________., eds. Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears. New York: William Morrow, 1995.

Lurie, Alison, Ed. Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Tales. New York: Corwell, 1980.

Fairytales for Feminists Series published by Attic Press in Dublin:

Rapunzel's Revenge, 1985.

Ms Muffet and Others, 1986.

Mad and Bad Fairies, 1987.

Sweeping Beauties, 1989.

Minard, Rosemary, Ed. Womenfolk and Fairy Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Park, Christine and Caroline Heaton, eds. Caught in a Story: Contemporary Fairytales and Fables.London: Vintage, 1992.

Phelps, Ethel Johnston, Ed. Tatterhood and Other Tales. Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1978.

________, ed. The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from around the World. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981.

Philip, Neil, Ed. The Cinderella Story. London: Penguin, 1989.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin, ed. Stories for Free Children. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Ragan, Kathleen, ed. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters. New York: Norton, 1997.

Shwartz, Susan, Ed. Hecate's Cauldron. New York: Daw Books, 1982.

Zipes, Jack. The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey, 1983.

________, Ed. Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England. New York: Routledge, 1986.

________, Ed. Beauties, Beasts, and Enchantment: French Classical Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.

________. Ed., Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture. New York: Viking, 1991.

Jack Zipes' Bibliography from his class:

Fall, 2001 - German 3642 Fairy Tales, Feminism, and the Brothers Grimm TTh

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Enjoy the Magic!