The Classic Fairy Tales

Cover......Page 1
The Editor......Page 3
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 11
The Texts of The Classic Fairy Tales......Page 21
Introduction: Little Red Riding Hood......Page 23
The Story of Grandmother......Page 30
Charles Perrault • Little Red Riding Hood......Page 31
Brothers Grimm • Little Red Cap......Page 33
James Thurber • The Little Girl and the Wolf......Page 36
Italo Calvino • The False Grandmother......Page 37
Chiang Mi • Goldflower and the Bear......Page 39
Roald Dahl • Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf......Page 41
Roald Dahl • The Three Little Pigs......Page 42
Introduction: Beauty and the Beast......Page 45
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont • Beauty and the Beast......Page 52
Giovanni Francesco Straparola • The Pig King......Page 62
Brothers Grimm • The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich......Page 67
Angela Carter • The Tiger's Bride......Page 70
Urashima the Fisherman......Page 86
Alexander Afanasev • The Frog Princess......Page 88
The Swan Maiden......Page 92
Introduction: Snow White......Page 94
Giambattista Basile • The Young Slave......Page 100
Brothers Grimm • Snow White......Page 103
Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland's Daughter......Page 110
Anne Sexton • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs......Page 116
Introduction: Cinderella......Page 121
Yeh-hsien......Page 127
Charles Perrault • Donkeyskin......Page 129
Brothers Grimm • Cinderella......Page 137
Joseph Jacobs • Catskin......Page 142
The Story of the Black Cow......Page 145
Lin Lan • Cinderella......Page 147
The Princess in the Suit of Leather......Page 151
Introduction: Bluebeard......Page 158
Charles Perrault • Bluebeard......Page 164
Brothers Grimm • Fitcher's Bird......Page 168
Brothers Grimm • The Robber Bridegroom......Page 171
Joseph Jacobs • Mr. Fox......Page 174
Margaret Atwood • Bluebeard's Egg......Page 176
Introduction: Hansel and Gretel......Page 199
Brothers Grimm • Hansel and Gretel......Page 204
Brothers Grimm • The Juniper Tree......Page 210
Joseph Jacobs • The Rose-Tree......Page 217
Charles Perrault • Little Thumbling......Page 219
Pippety Pew......Page 226
Joseph Jacobs • Molly Whuppie......Page 229
Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen......Page 232
The Little Mermaid......Page 236
The Little Match Girl......Page 253
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf......Page 255
The Red Shoes......Page 261
Introduction: Oscar Wilde......Page 266
The Selfish Giant......Page 270
The Happy Prince......Page 273
The Nightingale and the Rose......Page 281
Criticism......Page 287
Bruno Bettelheim • [The Struggle for Meaning]......Page 289
Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament......Page 291
Bruno Bettelheim • "Hansel and Gretel"......Page 293
Robert Darnton • Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose......Page 300
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar • [Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother]......Page 311
Karen E. Rowe • To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale......Page 317
Marina Warner • The Old Wives' Tale......Page 329
Zohar Shavit • The Concept of Childhood and Children's Folktales: Test Case—"Little Red Riding Hood"......Page 337
The Concept of Childhood up to the Seventeenth Century......Page 338
Relations between the Child's World and the Adult's World: From Unity to Polarization......Page 339
The Spread of the Concept of Childhood into Society: Two Concepts......Page 340
"Little Red Riding Hood": A Test Case of Attitudes towards Folktales from the Seventeenth Century On......Page 342
Manipulating the Model: The Ambiguity of "Little Red Riding Hood"......Page 343
The Basis for the Ambiguous Nature of the Text......Page 344
The Function of the Duality of the Intended Audience......Page 345
Differences between Versions of "Little Red Riding Hood": Perrault vs. the Brothers Grimm......Page 346
Differences in Tone and Ending......Page 348
Jack Zipes • Breaking the Disney Spell......Page 352
The Oral and Literary Fairy Tales......Page 353
Disney's Magical Rise......Page 359
Casting the Commodity Spell with Snow White......Page 365
The Revered Place of Folklore......Page 373
The Nationalistic View of Folklore......Page 374
Bettelheim's Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Fairy Tales......Page 379
The Question of Ownership......Page 380
Discovering Individual Ownership of Fairy Tales......Page 382
Maria Tatar • Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales......Page 384
Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson • From The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography......Page 393
Folklore and Literature......Page 398
The Method and Material......Page 402
Thirty-One Functions......Page 406
Propp's Dramatis Personae......Page 407
Anthologies......Page 409
Critical Studies......Page 411
Norton Critical Editions......Page 415