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Title: The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Maria M. Tatar ISBN: 0-393-97277-1 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Guide to Fairy Tales
Comment: A collection of fairy tales that have lasted throughout the years, "The Classic Fairy Tales" also offers many essays by the experts in fairy tale. The very best critics including Jack Zipes and Maria Tater, have written well-thought out essays varying from Disney's involvement in fairy tales to the sexuality of these tales. These essays along with the eight stories (Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Cinderella, Bluebeard, Hansel and Gretel, four short tales by Hans Christian Anderson, and three by Oscar Wilde) and you get a book which will help you understand not only the tales themselves, but the ideologies, social connections, and cultural importance. This book is definitely a good read.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Basis For Many Fairytales
Comment: An excellent book if you are struggling with the aquisition of variant sources for a particular fairy tale. A compendium of the well known, and the not so well know fairt tales, this book offers various incantations of 8 fary tales in their entirity. Following this, of particular interest to myself, are written criticisms and analysis of such tales by some of the most recognised names in fairy tale writing including Jack Zipes. Regardless of whether this book contains the tale you are looking for, the broader text that the book offers is certainly worth a look. A much more generalised idea is portrayed with regard to such topics as social origins, cultural resilience and the cultural implications and history of fairy tales as an independent genre. This book serves to bridge the gap between fairy tales that seem to bear no relationship to each other by looking at how these tales have come to be what they are.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent introduction to folklore
Comment: I was glad to find this volume, which offers different versions of popular fairy tales and shows their cultural variation. Commentary is helpful and to the point, with good bibliographical resources. I needed to find a guide to Cinderella stories and this gave me just what I needed and more. A good antidote to Bettelheim's overly Freudian interpretations of fairy tales.
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Title: The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (Norton Critical Editions) by Jack Zipes ISBN: 039397636X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.65 |
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Title: The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar ISBN: 0393051633 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter ISBN: 014017821X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim ISBN: 0679723935 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition by Johnny Gruelle, Jack Zipes ISBN: 0553382160 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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