The fairy tale : the magic mirror of imagination / by Jones, Steven Swann, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The folklore origin and the definition of the fairy tale -- The thematic core of fairy tales -- The literary history of the fairy tale -- Fairy tales with male protagonists -- Fairy tales with female protagonists -- The fairy tale influence in The wizard of Oz, The cat in the hat, and Where the wild things are.…”
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Fairy tales : a new history / by Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Table of Contents: “…Why a new history of fairy tales? -- Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk as creator, the book as source -- The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers : Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors -- The two inventors of fairy tale tradition : Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553) -- A new history.…”
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Fairy Tale. by Teverson, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Psychoanalysis, history and ideology: twentieth- and twenty-first-century approaches to fairy tale -- Psychoanalysis and Fairy Tale -- Fairy Medicine: Bruno Bettelheim and Reader-Focused Analysis -- Histories From Below: Historicism and the Fairy Tale -- Voice of the People? …”
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Fairy tales transformed? : twenty-first-century adaptations and the politics of wonder / by Bacchilega, Cristina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the fairy-tale web: intertextual and multimedial practices in globalized culture, a geopolitics of inequality, and (un)predictable links -- Activist responses : adaptation, remediation, and relocation -- Double exposures : reading (in) fairy-tale films -- Fairy-tale remix in film : genres, histories, and economies -- Resituating the Arabian Nights : challenges and promises of translation -- Epilogue : the politics of wonder.…”
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Fairy tales from before fairy tales : the medieval Latin past of wonderful lies / by Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956-

Subjects: “…Fairy tales History and criticism.…”
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Marvelous geometry : narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale / by Tiffin, Jessica, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Byatt -- Structured sword and sorcery : the popular fairy tales of Lee, Pratchett, and Tepper -- Magical illusion : fairy-tale film -- "Happily ever after" : fairy tale as popular parody.…”
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Feathers, paws, fins, and claws : fairy-tale beasts /

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Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales. by Schwartz, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Cover page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Jewish Fairy Tales; Elijah's Violin; The Witches of Ashkelon; The Golden Mountain; The Princess and the Slave; King David and the Giant; The Princess in the Tower; King Solomon and Asmodeus; The Beggar King; The Eternal Light; The Mysterious Palace; The Flight of the Eagle; The Wooden Sword; The Magic Flute of Asmodeus; Partnership with Asmodeus; The Demon Princess; The Enchanted Fountain; The Nightingale and the Dove; The Golden Tree; The Golden Feather; The Mute Princess.…”
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Fables and fairy tales / by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Aesop, Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863, Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859

Table of Contents: “…Aesop's fables -- Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy tales -- Grimm's Fairy tales -- The blue fairy book.…”
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Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words /

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to fairy tales -- Giovanni Boccaccio, The genealogy of the pagan gods (begun circa 1350) -- The literary fairy tale in Italy -- Giovan Francesco Straparola, The pleasant nights (1551,1553) -- Andrea Calmo, "Letter to Signora Frondosa" (1556) -- Girolamo Bargagli, Dialogue on games that are played during the Sienese Veglie (1572, written 1563) -- Giambattista Basile, The tale of tales (dedication for day 1, 1634) -- Girolamo Brusoni, The glories of the incogniti, or the illustrious men of the academy of the "unknown gentlemen" (1647) -- Pompeo Sarnelli, foreword to Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (1674) and foreword to An outing to Posillipo (1684) -- Bartolomeo Lupardi, "Dedicatory letter to Signor Giuseppo Spada" (1679) -- Maddalena and Teresa Manfredi, and Teresa and Angiola Zanotti, The gossip on the chair (1742) -- Ferdinando Galiani, On the Neapolitan dialect (1779) -- Luigi Serio, The fart : response to on the Neapolitan dialect (1780) -- Fairy tales and fairyland fictions in France -- Charles Perrault, Griselda, Novella, with the tale of donkeyskin and that of the ridiculous wishes, fourth edition (1695) -- Charles Perrault, Tales of my mother goose (1695) -- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, Diverse works (1696) -- Catherine Bernard, "Prince Rosebush" and "Ricky of the tuft" in Inès of Cordova : a Spanish novel (1696) -- Mercure gallant, extract from The history of the Marquise / Marquis of Banneville (September 1696) -- Charles Perrault, Histories, or tales of past times (1697) license -- [Editor] Mercure galant, Presentation of Histories, or tales of past times (January 1697) -- Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Tales of the fairies (1697) and New tales, or The fashionable fairies (1698) -- Charlotte Rose de La Force, "Notice concerning the following story" in The tales of the tales (1698) -- Henriette Julie de Murat, Sublime and allegorical histories (1699) -- Abbé Pierre de Villiers, Conversations about the Contes de Fées and some other works of our time, to serve as an antidote to bad taste, dedicated to the gentlemen of the Académie Française (1699) -- Antoine Galland, Thousand and one nights : Arab tales translated into French (1704-1717).…”
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Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words /

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to fairy tales -- Giovanni Boccaccio, The genealogy of the pagan gods (begun circa 1350) -- The literary fairy tale in Italy -- Giovan Francesco Straparola, The pleasant nights (1551,1553) -- Andrea Calmo, "Letter to Signora Frondosa" (1556) -- Girolamo Bargagli, Dialogue on games that are played during the Sienese Veglie (1572, written 1563) -- Giambattista Basile, The tale of tales (dedication for day 1, 1634) -- Girolamo Brusoni, The glories of the incogniti, or the illustrious men of the academy of the "unknown gentlemen" (1647) -- Pompeo Sarnelli, foreword to Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (1674) and foreword to An outing to Posillipo (1684) -- Bartolomeo Lupardi, "Dedicatory letter to Signor Giuseppo Spada" (1679) -- Maddalena and Teresa Manfredi, and Teresa and Angiola Zanotti, The gossip on the chair (1742) -- Ferdinando Galiani, On the Neapolitan dialect (1779) -- Luigi Serio, The fart : response to on the Neapolitan dialect (1780) -- Fairy tales and fairyland fictions in France -- Charles Perrault, Griselda, Novella, with the tale of donkeyskin and that of the ridiculous wishes, fourth edition (1695) -- Charles Perrault, Tales of my mother goose (1695) -- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, Diverse works (1696) -- Catherine Bernard, "Prince Rosebush" and "Ricky of the tuft" in Inès of Cordova : a Spanish novel (1696) -- Mercure gallant, extract from The history of the Marquise / Marquis of Banneville (September 1696) -- Charles Perrault, Histories, or tales of past times (1697) license -- [Editor] Mercure galant, Presentation of Histories, or tales of past times (January 1697) -- Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Tales of the fairies (1697) and New tales, or The fashionable fairies (1698) -- Charlotte Rose de La Force, "Notice concerning the following story" in The tales of the tales (1698) -- Henriette Julie de Murat, Sublime and allegorical histories (1699) -- Abbé Pierre de Villiers, Conversations about the Contes de Fées and some other works of our time, to serve as an antidote to bad taste, dedicated to the gentlemen of the Académie Française (1699) -- Antoine Galland, Thousand and one nights : Arab tales translated into French (1704-1717).…”
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Tales from Grimm by Gág, Wanda, 1893-1946

Subjects: “…Fairy tales Germany.…”
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More Tales from Grimm. by Gag, Wanda

Subjects: “…Fairy tales Germany.…”
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Japanese Fairy Tales. by Ozaki, Yei Theodora

Table of Contents: “…Japanese Fairy Tales; PREFACE; MY LORD BAG OF RICE; THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW; THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD; THE FARMER AND THE BADGER; THE SHINANSHA, OR THE SOUTH POINTING CARRIAGE; THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY; THE STORY OF PRINCESS HASE; THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE; THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; THE MIRROR OF MATSUYAMA; THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA; THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR; THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER; THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO FLOWER; THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY.…”
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Science of Fairy Tales. by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

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Children into swans : fairy tales and the pagan imagination / by Beveridge, Jan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Early Storytellers -- The Oldest "Fairy" Tale -- The Manuscript -- Folk Tales and Fairy Tales.…”
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The Irish fairy tale : a narrative tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens / by Carrassi, Vito

Table of Contents: “…A Rebirth in the Light of the Tradition; Chapter 4. The Fairy Tale Between Fabula and Historia; Chapter 5. The Process of Composition of the Fairy Tale; Chapter 6. …”
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Fairy Tale Review : the Translucent Issue #13. by Kate Bernheimer

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Developmental fairy tales : evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture / by Jones, Andrew F.

Table of Contents: “…The "development" of modern Chinese literature -- The iron house of narrative: Lu Xun and the late Qing fiction of evolutionary adventure -- Inherit the wolf: Lu Xun, natural history, and narrative form -- The child as history in republican China: a discourse on development -- Playthings of history -- A narrow cage: Eroshenko, Lu Xun, and the modern Chinese fairy tale.…”
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Folk and fairy tales : a handbook / by Ashliman, D. L.

Subjects: “…Fairy tales History and criticism.…”
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Teaching fairy tales /

Table of Contents: “…What is a fairy tale? / Maria Tatar -- The prehistory fairy tales / Graham Anderson -- The evolution of folk- and fairy tales in Europe and North America / Jack Zipes -- The fairy-tale canon / Donald Haase -- Fairy tales in the classroom / Lewis C. …”
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale : the Cultural and Social History of a Genre / by Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics -- The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture -- Remaking "Bluebeard," or good-bye to Perrault -- Witch as fairy/fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas -- The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors -- Guiseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the explosion of a genre -- Appendix A: sensationalist scholarship: a "new" hsitory of fairy tales -- Appendix B: Reductionist scholarship: a "new" definition of the fairy tale.…”
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The complete fairy tales / by Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703

Subjects: “…Fairy tales France.…”
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Grim fairy tales : the rhetorical construction of American welfare policy / by Gring-Pemble, Lisa M.

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Fairy Tale Review : the Ochre Issue #12. by Kate Bernheimer

Table of Contents: “…Cecily Schuler: To Meet My Father -- Ira Sukrungruang: Family: A Fairy Tale -- Kim Welliver: The Three Bears' Lesser Known Names for Goldilocks -- Gabrielle Williams: Clementine & the Cold Winter -- Allyson Young: Sedna -- Contributor Notes…”
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Fairy tale films : visions of ambiguity /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Grounding the spell : the fairy tale film and transformation /…”
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Fairy tales and society : illusion, allusion, and paradigm /

Table of Contents: “…Clinton -- To spin a yarn : the female voice in folklore and fairy tale / Karen E. Rowe -- Telling tales- spreading tales : change in the communicative forms of a popular genre / Rudolf Schenda -- Born yesterday : heroes in the Grimms' Fairy Tales / Maria M. …”
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French fairy tales : a Jungian approach / by Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz, 1926-2010

Table of Contents: “…Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Fantastic Queen Merely a Tongue-in-Cheek Fairy Tale? --…”
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Fairy Tale Review : the Yellow Issue #9. by Bernheimer, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Guest Editor's Note -- Resurrection Refrains: 22 Tarot Lyrics in the Form of the Yellow Brick Road -- The If-Tree -- Fairy Tale for the Suburban Makeover -- With No Fairy -- The Colorists -- The Girl in the Sky -- Holey Sonnets: Rapunzel -- 39.5 Celsius -- Pinnochia from Pleasure Island -- The Lemon Tree -- Cinder -- from In a House in a Woods -- A Successful Rise -- What the Baby Tells Me -- And That Is How They Found Me -- The Hillbilly in My Pocket -- Sugar Snatch -- A Real Cinderella Story -- Josh Henderson Is Anne Boleyn…”
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Fairy tales of Appalachia /

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Postmodern Fairy Tales : Gender and Narrative Strategies.

Table of Contents: “…Performing Wonders: Postmodern Revisions of Fairy Tales -- 2. The Framing of ""Snow White"": Narrative and Gender (Re)Production -- 3. …”
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale : the Cultural and Social History of a Genre / by Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics -- The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture -- Remaking "Bluebeard," or good-bye to Perrault -- Witch as fairy/fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas -- The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors -- Guiseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the explosion of a genre -- Appendix A: sensationalist scholarship: a "new" hsitory of fairy tales -- Appendix B: Reductionist scholarship: a "new" definition of the fairy tale.…”
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Nightmare's fairy tale : a young refugee's home fronts, 1938-1948 / by Korman, Gerd

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Fairy-Tale Science : Monstrous Generation in the Takes of Straparola and Basile. by Magnanini, Suzanne

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A Fairy Tale 'And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass''. by the Elder, George Colman

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Fairy Tale Review : the Mauve Issue #11. by Bernheimer, Kate

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Snow White and the seven dwarfs by Gág, Wanda, 1893-1946

Subjects: “…Fairy tales.…”
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Snow White and the seven dwarfs by Gág, Wanda, 1893-1946

Subjects: “…Fairy tales.…”
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The enchanted screen : the unknown history of fairy-tale films / by Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Filmic adaptation and appropriation of the fairy tale -- De-Disneyfying Disney : notes on the development of the fairy-tale film -- Georges Méliès : pioneer of the fairy-tale film and the art of the ridiculous -- Animated fairy-tale cartoons : celebrating the carnival art of the ridiculous -- Animated feature fairy-tale films -- Cracking the magic mirror : re-presentations of Snow White -- The trials and tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood revisited and reviewed -- Bluebeard's original sin and the rise of serial killing, mass murder, and fascism -- The triumph of the underdog : Cinderella's legacy -- Abusing and abandoning children : "Hansel and Gretel," "Tom Thumb," "The Pied Piper," "Donkey-skin," and "The juniper tree" -- Choosing the right mate : why beasts and frogs make for ideal husbands -- Andersen's cinematic legacy : trivialization and innovation -- Adapting fairy-tale novels -- Between slave language and utopian optimism : neglected fairy-tale films of Central and Eastern Europe -- Fairy-tale films in dark times : breaking molds, seeing the world anew.…”
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Three gay tales from Grimm by Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863

Subjects: “…Fairy tales Germany.…”
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