| The Classic Fairy Tales Contributor(s): Tatar, Maria (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393602974 ISBN-13: 9780393602975 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $33.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 398.209 |
| LCCN: 2016050502 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (1.15 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Seven different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Tricksters." These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar. - Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. - More than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales. New to the Second Edition are interpretations by Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Lüthi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-Jörg Uther. - A revised and updated Selected Bibliography. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tatar, Maria: - Maria Tatar chairs the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. She is the author of Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and many other books on folklore and fairy stories. She is also the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, The Annotated Peter Pan, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition and The Grimm Reader. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |