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Folk and fairy tales

These titles examine the nature and history of Folk and Fairy Tales through literature, and how such tales have been used in Children's Literature.  For instance, when and why did Folk and Fairy Tales become children's stories rather than literature for adult sensibilities?

The call number is to the text held in the Heyward Library.

Graham Anderson, Fairytale in the ancient world, New York : Routledge, 2000
hmc 398.2093 ANDE 

Cristina Bacchilega, Postmodern fairy tales : gender and narrative, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997
hmc 398.201 BACC

Sandra Beckett, Recycling Red Riding Hood, New York ; Routledge 2002
hmc 809.282 BECK

Bruno Bettelheim, The uses of enchantment  : the meaning and importance of fairy tales, New York : A.A. Knopf, 1976
hmc 398.45 BETT 

Sibylle Birkhäuser-Oer, The mother : archetypal image in fairy tales, Toronto : Inner City Books, 1988
hmc 398.352 BIRK

Sheldon Cashdan, The witch must die : how fairy tales shape our lives, New York : Basic Books, 1999
hmc 398.45 CASH

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women who run with the wolves: contacting the power of the wild woman, London : Rider, 1993
hmc 398.082 ESTE

John Goldthwaite, The natural history of make-believe : a guide to the principal works of Britain, Europe, and America, New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
hmc 028.5 GOLD 

Elizabeth Wanning Harries, Twice upon a time : women writers and the history of the fairy tale, Princeton NJ : Princeton University Press, 2001
hmc 398.209 HARR

Betsy Gould Hearne, Beauty and the beast : visions and revisions of an old tale, Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1989
hmc 398.21 LEPR/H

James E. Higgins, Beyond words : mystical fancy in children's literature, New York : Teachers College Press, [1970]
hmc 028.5 HIGG 

Steven Swann Jones, The fairy tale : the magic mirror of the imagination, New York : Routledge, 2002
hmc 398.2 JONE

U. C. Knoepflmacher, Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998
hmc 820.99282 KNOE 

Max Lüthi, Es war einmal. [English] Once upon a time : on the nature of fairy tales, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1976, c1970
hmc 398.2109 1 

Rudolf W. Meyer, Weisheit der deutschen Volksmarchen. [English] The wisdom of fairy tales, Edinburgh : Floris ; Hudson, N.Y. : Anthroposophie Press, 1988
hmc 028.5 MEYE 

Duncan Petrie (ed.), Cinema and the realms of enchantment : lectures, seminars and essays / by Marina Warner and others, London : British Film Institute, 1993
hmc 791.4367 CINE

Diane Purkiss, Troublesome things : a history of fairies and fairy stories, London : Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2000
hmc 398.45 PURK 

Susan Sellers, Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001
hmc 809.89287 SELL 

Carole G. Silver, Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness, New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999
hmc 398.21 SILV

Maria Tatar, The classic fairy tales : texts, criticism, New York : Norton, c1999
hmc 398.2 CLAS

 

Maria Tatar, The hard facts of the Grimm's fairy tales, Princeton, NJ. : Princeton University Press, 2003
hmc 398.20943 TATA

J. R. R. Tolkien, Tree and leaf : including the poem Mythopeoia, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1989, c1988
hmc 809.915 TOLK

Marie-Luise von Franz, The interpretation of fairy tales, Boston : Shambhala ; [New York] : Random House, 1996
hmc 398.2019 FRAN

Marie-Luise von Franz, The psychological meaning of redemption motifs in fairytales, Toronto : Inner City Books, c1980
hmc 398.2019 FRAN 

Marie-Luise von Franz, Shadow and evil in fairy tales, Boston : Shambhala, 1995
hmc 398.253 FRAN 

Marina Warner, From the beast to the blonde : on fairy tales and their tellers, London : Chatto & Windus, 1994
hmc 398.21 WARN 

Jack David Zipes, The Brothers Grimm : from enchanted forests to the modern world, New York : Routledge, 1988
hmc 398.20943 GRIM/Z

Jack David Zipes, Fairy tale as myth/myth as fairy tale, Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1994
hmc 398.21 ZIPE 

Jack David Zipes (ed.), The Great fairy tale tradition : from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm : texts, criticism, New York : W.W. Norton, 2001
hmc 398.2 GREA 

Jack David Zipes, Happily ever after : fairy tales, children, and the culture industry, New York : Routledge, 1997
hmc 398.2 ZIPE 

Jack David Zipes (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
href 398.21 OXFO 

 

Jack David Zipes, When dreams came true : classical fairy tales and their tradition, New York : Routledge, 1999
hmc 398.21 ZIPE

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