The Cambridge companion to fairy tales / edited by Maria Tatar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tatar, Maria, 1945- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales.

Fairy tales--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature. As the simple expression of complex thought, fairy tales have increasingly become the focus of intense scholarly inquiry. In this Companion, international scholars from a range of academic disciplines explore the historical origins, cultural dissemination and psychological power of fairy stories, and offer model interpretations of tales from a variety of traditions and sources, including Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and the One Thousand and One Nights. Rather than disenchanting the stories, the essays in this volume broaden our understanding of them and deepen our appreciation of the cultural work they do. A chronology and guide to further reading contribute to the usefulness of the volume for students and scholars.

Contents:

Fairy tales, copyright, and the public domain

Female tricksters as double agents

While beauty sleeps : the poetics of male violence in Perceforest and Almodóvar's Talk to her

Fairy-tale adaptations and economies of desire

Fairy-tale symbolism

Trickster heroes in "The boy steals the ogre's treasure"

Exploring empathy and ethics in tales about three brothers

The creation of Cinderella from Basile to the Brothers Grimm

The soul music of "The juniper tree"

Sex, crime, magic, and mystery in the Thousand and one nights

Media-hyping of fairy tales

Transformations of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tales from Hawthorne to Oz.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316188989

1316188981

9781316190845

1316190846

9781139381062

1139381067

OCLC:

898273014