The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
10 best books like The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Bruno Bettelheim): Morphology of the Folktale, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Morphology of the Folktale
| Author | Vladimir Propp |
| ISBN | 0292783760 |
Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretical breakthroughs in the field of folklore in the twentieth century. -- Alan Dundes. Propp's work is seminal...[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists...
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691114692 |
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032043 |
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
| Author | Joan Gould |
| ISBN | 0812975456 |
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden...
| Author | Catherine Orenstein |
| ISBN | 0465041264 |
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0374524874 |
In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers...
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0877735263 |
Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and...
| Author | Sheldon Cashdan |
| ISBN | 0465008968 |
In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying...
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 0385486812 |
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight...
| Author | Alison Lurie |
| ISBN | 0316246255 |
Read in one sitting and late into the night because it was SO MCUH FUN, although, yes, uneven, and difficult to follow in places if one hasn't read the original books. Children's literature (Lurie says) runs under the radar, and the authors of children's literature often possess the same attribute,...
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415976707 |
The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives...
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0874835917 |
Subtitled "Fantasy, Faerie, and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood," this small book of essays was first my position papers for the EdD I never quite got. Originally published in hardcover by Philomel and then brought out a few years later in a trade paperback, this book of essays has become well...
