The Classic Fairy Tales

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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. 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