The cultural resilience of fairy tales is incontestable. Surviving over the centuries and thriving in a variety of media, fairy tales continue to enrich our imaginations and shape our lives. This Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales examines the genre, its cultural implications—and its critical history. The editor has gathered fairy tales from around the world to reveal the range and play of these stories over time. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood,' "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel." It includes multicultural variants of these tales, along with sophisticated literary rescriptings.

Each tale type is preceded by an introduction, and annotations are provided throughout. Also included in this collection of over forty stories are tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. "Criticism" collects twelve essays that interrogate different aspects of fairy tales by exploring their social origins, historical evolution, psychological dynamics, and engagement with issues of gender and national identity. Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Darnton, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Karen E. Rowe, Marina Warner, Zohar Shavit, Jack Zipes, Donald Haase, Maria Tatar, Antti Aarne, and Vladimir Propp provide critical overviews. A Selected Bibliography is included.

About the Series—Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretation—from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory—as well as a bibliography and a chronology of the author's life and work.

Contents

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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]   Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament  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"   The Concept of Childhood up to the Seventeenth Century   Relations between the Child's World and the Adult's World: From Unity to Polarization   The Spread of the Concept of Childhood into Society: Two Concepts   "Little Red Riding Hood": A Test Case of Attitudes towards Folktales from the Seventeenth Century On    Perrault's Version     Manipulating the Model: The Ambiguity of "Little Red Riding Hood"     The Basis for the Ambiguous Nature of the Text     The Function of the Duality of the Intended Audience    Differences between Versions of "Little Red Riding Hood": Perrault vs. the Brothers Grimm     Differences in Tone and Ending  Jack Zipes • Breaking the Disney Spell   The Oral and Literary Fairy Tales   Disney's Magical Rise   Casting the Commodity Spell with Snow White  Donald Haase • Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales   The Revered Place of Folklore   The Nationalistic View of Folklore   Bettelheim's Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Fairy Tales   The Question of Ownership   Discovering Individual 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  Anthologies  Critical Studies

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Tags: FairyTales, Mythology, Literature, LiteraryCriticism