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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 398.2 EAN: 9780393972771 ISBN: 0393972771 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 04, 1999 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Sales Rank: 79748
Product Description: 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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Awesom Book
This book has the original fairy tales, and they are amazing. If you want something completely different from the clean cut Disney versions of the classics you should at least read the book.
Rating: - Excellent
This is a very accurate study on fairy tales: everyone who wonders what's there beyond a story can easily find an answer. The book contains classical versions of some of the most famous fairy tales (Little ... Read More
Rating: - Just what she needed
My daughter needed this for school and buying all her books here instead of the site the school works with saved a lot of money. Great condition, would buy again.
Rating: - A Reference in the Genre
(This is an old review I wrote somewhere else before, 20th April 2005.)
This book is a collection of both classical fairy tales and contemporary ones, though you never get the contemporary ... Read More
Rating: - A Guide to Fairy Tales
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 ... Read More
