The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwabe, Claudia.

Contributor:

Jones, Christa.

Series:

Routledge Literature Companions Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures. It offers an expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, literary studies, and cultural studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I History and Global Formations of the Canon

1 North American Traditions: Transforming the Canon By Anthologizing and Adapting Indigenous and Immigrant Tales

Anthologizing Indigenous Storytelling: Appropriation and Misappropriation

Immigrants to Turtle Island: Anthologizing and Americanizing European Tale Traditions

Adapting Classic Tales: Injustice and Speculative Futures

Notes

References Cited and Further Reading

2 South American Fairy-Tale Traditions: Little Red Riding Hood in Alternative Itineraries

Marvelous Tales in Local Contexts

Fiction and Beliefs in Marvelous Tales

Marvelous Tales and Folk Narrative Matrices

Latin American Märchen: a General Overview

Marvelous Tales in Argentinian Contexts

The Vanishing Zone of Beliefs in Argentinian Märchen

Little Red Riding Hood in Covid Times: Folktales, Belief Narratives, and Embodied Performances

"Little Red Riding Hood and the Pombero:" Folk Matrices and Belief Narratives

Little Red Riding Hood: a Theatrical Performance

"Big Bad Wolf, Where Are You?" By Lola Brikman: a Choreographic Recreation in Covid Times

Conclusion

3 Franz Boas and John Alden Mason In Puerto Rico (1914-1915): Jíbaro Rural Oral Fairy Tales

Transcribing Oral Folktales From the Countryside: Jíbaros as Cultural Informants

Rural Puerto Rican Oral Folktales: Snow White Turned Into a Jíbara Known as Blanca Flor

Not All Fairy Godmothers Are Fairies: Las Encantadas in "La Cenizosa" ("Cinderella")

To the Rescue of Encantados: Kindness Goes a Long Way

Conclusion: the Cultural Significance of Puerto Rican Fairy Tales as Folktales

References.

4 Remaking The Nine-Tailed Fox In Korean Fairy-Tale Television: Narrative, Gender, and Remediation

The Nine-Tailed Fox as a Symbol of Patriarchy and Posterity

Remaking the Kumiho in Mass Media

Kumiho, Masculinity, and Nationhood

Epilogue

5 Decolonizing Through Desi Genres: Trans-Generic Approaches to South Asian Fairy Tales

Defining the Desi Genre

Purāṇa, Kathā, and Charitā as Desi Genres

Towards Decolonizing and Redefining the Notions of Wonder Within South Asian Narratives

Digital Adaptations of Desi Genres: Shifting Perceptions and Trans-Generic Approaches in the Global South

Conclusions

6 Turkish and Middle Eastern Folktales And Fairy Tales

Turkish and Turkic Tales

Collections, Scholars, and Scholarship

Arab Tales

Arab Collections, Scholars, and Scholarship

Armenian Tales

Armenian Collections, Scholars, and Scholarship

Kurdish Tales

Kurdish Collections, Scholars, and Scholarship

Iranian Tales

Iranian Collections, Scholars, and Scholarship

Jewish Tales

Jewish Folktale Collections, Scholars, and Scholarship

Regional Interactions

Tale Types in the Middle East

Note

7 The Arabian Nights: Medieval Magic Tales and Hannā Diyāb's Fairy Tales

Magic and Genre in the Medieval Arabian Nights

Incantations and Invocations

Fairy Tales in the Medieval Arabian Nights?

Hannā Diyāb's European Stories and Magic in the Arabian Nights

Concluding Thoughts

8 Hybridizing Nature In Colonial Australian and New Zealand Fairy Tales, 1891-1930

Retellings of European Tales

Australian Fairy Tales as Natural Origin Stories.

Educating Children About Nature and Maori Culture in Tales From New Zealand

Conclusion: Fairy Tales, National Identity, and the Environment

References

9 Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations: Folktales and Fairy Tales in Central and Eastern Europe Slavic Countries

Folk and Fairy Tales in the Twentieth Century

Folk and Fairy Tales in Central and Eastern Europe in Post-Soviet Period

Part II Theories and Approaches

10 A Historicist Approach To The Evolution of Fairy Tales

Preliminaries: Word-Picking

A Case History: Nice Bears, Nasty Intruders

The Evolution of a Fox Into Goldilocks

The Vixen

The Vagrant

11 Thinking With Fairy Tales: Cognitive Approaches to the Genre

Fairy Tales and the Mind: Why Study Fairy Tales Through a Cognitive Perspective?

The Child Reader: Fairy Tales and Cognitive Development

Wondering and Wandering: Fairy Tales and Fantastic Cognition

Conflict, Anger, Love? Fairy Tales and Emotions

Fantastic and Marvelous Bodies: Fairy Tales and Embodied Cognition

12 Psychological and Therapeutic Approaches To The Fairy Tale

Freud, Jung, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic

Therapeutic Approaches in the Age of Authorpreneurship: Starhawk, Sharon Blackie, and Martin Shaw

Beyond the Western Paradigm: Eco-Therapeutic Approaches to the Fairy Tale

13 Multispecies Fairy-Tale Studies

Fairy-tale Animals and the Problem of Anthropomorphism

Fairy Tales and the Umwelt

The Problem of Animal Tales in the ATU Index

A Classification of Multispecies Tales

The Uses of a Multispecies Tale Classification

14 A Question Of Architecture: Structuralist, Formalist, and Post-Modern Approaches to Fairy Tales

Structuralist and Formalist Approaches to Fairy Tales: an Overview

Postmodern Approaches to Fairy Tales: an Overview

15 Post-Colonial Tricksters: African Diasporic Folklore in Contemporary Culture

Anansi and Brer Rabbit: Shapeshifting Diasporic Tricksters

Folklore Versus Fairy Tales

Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: "It's a Risky Thing to Copy, Shall I Catch It?"

Anthropomorphizing: the Influence of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus On the Development of the British Children's Story

Anansi Tricks: Escaping Eurocentric Thought

Modern Anansi: Neil Gaiman's American Gods (2001)

Tricksters Today: the "Wrong" Type of Black Anger

16 Fairy Tales and Their Translatedness

Translatedness

A Reluctant Dialogue

Thinking With Translation Theory

Translators as Knowledge Producers

Translators as Creators

References Cited and Further Readings

17 Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory

Feminist Theory

Gender and Queer Theory

Convergences and Connections

References Cited

18 Mutation, Mutilation, Metamorphosis, Monstrosity: A Cripistemological Analysis of Disability and Difference in Old and New Fairy Tales

Narrative Prosthesis and Ableist Gaze in "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" and Its Adaptations

Disability as Corruption Or Curse: From Rumpelstiltskin to Aschenputtel

Disciplining Disability in Animal Husband Tales: Beauty Tames the Beast

Edward Scissorhands and the Social Constructionist Model of Disability

Engendering Disability: Maidenhood and Martyrdom in "The Girl Without Hands" and "The Little Mermaid".

Resisting Readings: Cripistemological Analyses and Dismodern Perspectives

Queercripping Snow White

Compensatory Disability and Empowering Exceptionality: Old and New Thumbelinas

The Politics of Demythologization and Disenchantment in Post-Modern Retellings

Part III Art Forms and Genre Intersections

19 Literary Fairy Tales: Constructed Hybrids

Kunstmärchen and Concepts of the Oral Tradition

German Literary Fairy Tales, the Conception of the Kunstmärchen

Little Red Riding Hood: a Case Study of Literary Retelling

20 Fairy Tales As Children's and Young Adult Literature

A Short History of Fairy Tales as Children's Literature

Fairy Tales as Children's Literature

Young Adult Fairy-Tale Retellings

Mediagraphy

21 Twenty-First Century Fairy-Tale Adaptations on Page and Screen

Adaptations as Adaptations

Palimpsests and the Fairy-Tale Web

Storyworlds as Discursive Space

Family Restoration Tales

Complicated Villains

22 Fairy-Tale Pastiche: Nostalgia and Whimsy at Work in Abc's Once Upon a Time and Disney's Wish

Fairy-tale Pastiche

Nostalgia

Whimsy

Disney's Wish

Critical Pastiche

23 Images of The Imaginary: Fairy-Tale Illustration and the Visual Arts

24 Manga and Anime

How Western Fairy Tales Entered Manga/anime

Grimm Masterpiece Theatre, "Snow White" Retold

The Legend of Snow White: the Tale Is Elaborated

Prétear, the New Legend of Snow White: the Tale Revised

The Snow White With Red Hair: a Folkloresque Allusion

Notes.

References Cited and Further Reading.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-042700-6

1-003-40388-3

1-04-042696-4

9781003403883

OCLC:

1546961447