Folk & fairy tales / edited by Martin Hallett & Barbara Karasek.

Other author Hallett, Martin, 1944-
Other author Karasek, Barbara, 1954-
Format Book
Edition4th ed.
Publication InfoPeterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, ©2009.
Description411 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 398-404).
ISBN9781551118987 (pbk.)
ISBN155111898X (pbk.)