Folk & fairy tales / edited by Martin Hallett & Barbara Karasek.
| Other author | Hallett, Martin, 1944- |
| Other author | Karasek, Barbara, 1954- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 4th ed. |
| Publication Info | Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, ©2009. |
| Description | 411 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Folk and fairy tales |
| Contents | Little Red Riding Hood -- The story of Grandmother / Paul Delarue -- Little Red Riding Hood / Charles Perrault -- Little Red Cap / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The Chinese Red Riding Hoods / Isabelle C. Chang -- Flossie and the Fox / Patricia C. McKissack -- Little Red Riding Hood / David McPhail -- The company of wolves / Angela Carter -- Wolf / Francesca Lia Clock -- What Bugs Bunny said to Red Riding Hood / Tim Seibles -- Sleeping Beauty -- Sun, Moon, and Talia / Giambattista Basile -- The Sleeping Beauty in the wood / Charles Perrault -- Brier Rose / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The Neapolitan soldier / Italo Calvino -- The ninth captain's tale / Arabian Nights -- Sleeping Beauty and the airplane / Gabriel Barcia Marquez -- The Sleeping Beauty / Wilfred Owen -- Cinderella -- Cinderella: Or the glass slipper / Charles Perrault -- Vasilisa the Beautiful / Aleksandr Afanas'ev -- Cap o' Rushes / Joseph Jacobs -- The Indian Cinderella / Cyrus Macmillan -- Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella tale / Robert D. San Souci -- When the clock strikes / Tanith Lee -- The wicked stepmother's lament / Sara Maitland -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Growing Up (Is Hard to Do) -- Hansel and Gretel / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Snow White / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Rapunzel / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Jack and the beanstalk / Joseph Jacobs -- The ugly duckling / Hans Christian Andersen -- The Enchanted Bride (Groom) -- Beauty and the beast / Madame Laprince de Beaumont -- East of the sun and west of the moon / Asbjornsen and Moe -- The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The white cat / Madame la Comtesse d'Aulnoy -- Brain Over Brawn (The Trickster) -- The brave little tailor / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Molly Whuppie / Joseph Jacobs -- Puss in boots / Charles Perrault -- The death of Brer Wolf / Julius Lester -- Villains -- Bluebeard / Charles Perrault -- Rumpelstiltskin / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The fisherman and his wife / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- A Less Than Perfect World -- The Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- A toy princess / Mary De Morgan -- The happy prince / Oscar Wilde -- The Griffin and minor canon / Frank Stockton -- |
| Contents | Juxtapositions -- "The blue light" (Grimm) and "The tinderbox" (Andersen) -- "The goose girl" (Grimm) and "The tale of the handkerchief" (Donoghue) -- "The story of the three little pigs" (Jacobs) and "The three little pigs" (Garner) -- "The young slave" (Basile) and "Giant story" (Scieszka and Smith) -- Illustration -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Hansel and Gretel -- Sleeping Beauty -- Beauty and the Beast -- Setting: Bluebeard and Rapunzel -- Puss in Boots -- Modern/Postmodern world -- Postscript -- Criticism -- The fairy-tale hero: the image of man in the fairy tale / Max Luthi -- The struggle for meaning / Bruno Bettelheim -- Fairy tales from a folkloristic perspective / Alan Dundes -- Feminism and fairy tales / Karen Rowe -- What fairy tales tell us / Alison Lurie -- Did they live happily ever after? Rewriting fairy tales for a contemporary audience / Laura Tosi -- Disney revisited, or, Jiminy Cricket, It's musty down here! / Betsy Hearne -- The end of fairy tales? How Shrek ad friends have changed children's stories / James Poniewozik. |
| Abstract | This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories form a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-404). |
| ISBN | 9781551118987 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 155111898X (pbk.) |