The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism
| Book | Le Conte de la mère-grand |
| Editor | Maria Tatar |
| Series | Norton Critical Editions |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Copyright Holder | W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
| Composition | PennSet, Inc. |
| Book Design by | Antonina Krass |
| Contributing Writer | Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, James Thurber, Italo Calvino, Chiang Mi, Roald Dahl, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Angela Carter, Alexander Afanasev, Giambattista Basile, Anne Sexton, Joseph Jacobs, Lin Lan, Margaret Atwood, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Darnton, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Karen E. Rowe, Marina Warner, Zohar Shavit, Jack Zipes, Donald Haase, Maria Tatar, Antti Aarne, Stith Thompson, Vladimir Propp |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York • London |
| Copyright | 1999 |
| Pages / Font | 394 pages / Electra with the display set in Bernhard Modern |
| Edition No. | 1 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | GR550.C57 1998 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 385.2—dc21 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 98-13552 |
| Printer's Key | 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 |
| ISBN 10 | 0-393-97277-1 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 9780393972771 |
| EAN 5 | 90000 |
| Chapters | Introduction THE TEXTS OF THE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES Introduction: Little Red Riding Hood The Story of Grandmother Charles Perrault • Little Red Riding Hood Brothers Grimm • Little Red Cap James Thurber • The Little Girl and the Wolf Italo Calvino • The False Grandmother Chiang Mi • Goldflower and the Bear Roald Dahl • Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Roald Dahl • The Three Little Pigs Introduction: Beauty and the Beast Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont • Beauty and the Beast Giovanni Francesco Straparola • The Pig King Brothers Grimm • The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich Angela Carter • The Tiger's Bride Urashima the Fisherman Alexander Afanasev • The Frog Princess The Swan Maiden Introduction: Snow White Giambattista Basile • The Young Slave Brothers Grimm • Snow White Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland's Daughter Anne Sexton • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Introduction: Cinderella Yeh-hsien Charles Perrault • Donkeyskin Brothers Grimm • Cinderella Joseph Jacobs • Catskin The Story of the Black Cow Lin Lan • Cinderella The Princess in the Suit of Leather Introduction: Bluebeard Charles Perrault • Bluebeard Brothers Grimm • Fitcher's Bird Brothers Grimm • The Robber Bridegroom Joseph Jacobs • Mr. Fox Margaret Atwood • Bluebeard's Egg Introduction: Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm • Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm • The Juniper Tree Joseph Jacobs • The Rose-Tree Charles Perrault • Little Thumbling Pippety Pew Joseph Jacobs • Molly Whuppie Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen The Little Mermaid The Little Match Girl The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf The Red Shoes Introduction: Oscar Wilde The Selfish Giant The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose CRITICISM Bruno Bettelheim • [The Struggle for Meaning] Bruno Bettelheim • "Hansel and Gretel" Robert Darnton • Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar • [Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother] Karen E. Rowe • To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale Marina Warner • The Old Wives' Tale Zohar Shavit • The Concept of Childhood and Children's Folktales: Test Case — "Little Red Riding Hood" Jack Zipes • Breaking the Disney Spell Donald Haase • Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales Maria Tatar • Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson • From The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography Vladimir Propp • Folklore and Literature • From Morphology of the Folktale The Method and Material • Thirty-One Functions • Propp's Dramatis Personae Selected Bibliography |
| Notes | Printed in the United States of America |
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