Maio, Kathi. "Beauty Fades But Fairy Tales Never Die." Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.3/4 (2012): 204-210. Web
This article examines different versions of the Snow White fairy tale from the point of view of various film adapations. Starting with Disneys orginal tale, ranging from Snow White and the Three Stooges, to the newer Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror. In the newer editions, it is examined and compared to the fact that these movies have stronger female leads, and Snow White is no considered to be helpless, but rahter saves the men involved and fights for herself.
McCully, Robert S. The Enigma of Symbols in Fairy Tales. n.d.
This book contains a collection of six stories, such as Beauty and the Beast, and Jack and the Beanstalk. The author provides commentry on each of the tales and writes what believes to be the moral of each tale, after a close reading. The book also has a suggested reading biblography as well.
Moore, Robert. King, Warrior, Magic, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. New York: HarperOne, 1991. Print.
This book examines masculinity through different arachtypes of makes in mythology and fairy tales. The auther divides the book into two sections- Boy to Man psychology, which discussed how boys develop into the ideal man. Part two is divided into four different archetypes commonly found in stories, those four listed in the title of the work. The stories were divided and discussed accorinding to those chapters.
Mortensen, Finn Hauberg. "The Little Mermaid: Icon and Disneyfication." Scandinavation Studies 80.1 (2008): 437-454. Web.
This article eximanines different versions of the Little Mermaid tale, most recently the Disney remakes of the st...
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...ther volumes of their works. This is a two part volume containing the first 211 stories written by the Grimms. I plan on using this work as a reference to the orginal tales of the Grimms.
—. The Great Fairytale Tradition From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. Ed. Jack Zipes W.W. Norton and Company, 2012. Print.
Includes 116 stories divided into genres such as Abandond Children, Love Conquors All, and Envious Sisters. Each chapter/genre division is explained byZipes, and commenting on certin intermixing elements for different genres. Includes illuistrations.
—. The Irresistible Fairy Tale: Cultural and Social . Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012. Print.
Zipes uses different culuteral readings of popular fairy tales and looks at what it is about the stories that have made them stick throughout the years.
As the world has transformed and progressed throughout history, so have its stories and legends, namely the infamous tale of Cinderella. With countless versions and adaptations, numerous authors from around the world have written this beauty’s tale with their own twists and additions to it. And while many may have a unique or interesting way of telling her story, Anne Sexton and The Brother’s Grimm’s Cinderellas show the effects cultures from different time periods can have on a timeless tale, effects such as changing the story’s moral. While Sexton chooses to keep some elements of her version, such as the story, the same as the Brothers Grimm version, she changes the format and context, and adds her own commentary to transform the story’s
Anderson, Hans Christian. “The Little Mermaid.” Folk and Fairy Tales. 3rd ed. Eds. Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek. Toronto: Broadview, 2002.
Tatar, Maria. Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1992. Print.
read through the article I had to pick out ten important facts about the fairy tale genre and its origins. Collecting my facts was difficult because there were many writers that changed the audience for fairy tales. I didn’t want to just write down 10 authors and their works t...
The simplicity of fairy tales and non-specific details renders them ideal for manipulation allowing writers to add their own comments often reflecting social convention and ideology. Theref...
In both Hans Christian Andersons “The Little Mermaid,” and Disney’s version of the story, the main character— a young and beautiful mermaid— waits anxiously for her fifteenth birthday to venture from her father’s underwater castle to the world above the water. As the story carries on the mermaids priorities change; her modest and selfless nature is revealed towards the end in Andersen’s version. However, Disney’s version encompasses a rather shallow ending and plot throughout. The theme found in comparing the two versions reveal that Andersen’s substance trumps Disney’s entertainment factor in fairy tales.
The fairy tales that we have become so familiar with are embedded with love, imagination and enchantment. In truth, these are just common archetypes; originally fairy tales had a much darker backdrop. They were once symbols of sexualisation and brutality as not everything ended happily ever after. Deriving from promiscuous and overlooked on goings from the 19th century (such as molestation), these ideas were later suppressed when they became children’s tales. John Updike described traditional fairy tales as ‘The pornography of their day’, hence they contained elements of wish-fulfilment and gratification such as rape, pleasure and attainment. This is true to a certain extent but they also consisted of violence, mutiny and injustice. An exploration
Fairy tales have been part of our lives ever since we were young children. We all either grew up watching Disney renditions of fairy tales, or we had storybooks filled with vivid pictures of a tale. Fairy tales are so important in our culture that it would be difficult to find someone who has not heard of Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, or other fairy tale protagonists. Interestingly enough, fairy tales have been a very integral part of Western culture since the time they were written. Fairy tale writers, such as Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers, revolutionized culture in the 17th and 18th centuries with their writings. Not only did these writers write these tales for entertainment, but they also accomplished to influence the
Over centuries of children have been enjoying the classic fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. The fanciful plots and the vivid details allow children to be entranced by characters and adventures that can only be found in these stories. One of the most beloved fairy tales, which both the Perrault and the Grimms have their own separate versions of, is Cinderella. Cinderella is able to show how both versions are able to feed off the same plots while personifying the century and social economic situation in which they have lived.
Throughout my childhood, my sister loved to write unique fairytales for me that would make my little mind soar. Although I didn’t read modern fairytales, fairytales played an important role in my childhood as they first helped me to read, gain knowledge about the world and understand myself. According to Bruno Bettelheim’s book, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairytales, fairy tales give children much knowledge about their identity, others emotions and their environment. Children gain knowledge by reading about life experiences similar to their own and use this knowledge they gain through out their development, just as I did. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, written by the Grimm Brothers
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. Print.
..., Maria. “An Introduction to Fairy Tales.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Ed. Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen. Toronto: Longman, 2013. 230-235. Print.
Zipes, Jack. Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.
Fairy Tale Text & Motif. Prod. Distribution Access. Distribution Access, 2001.Discovery Education. Web. 1 December 2001. .
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are two people we can thank. Although they are often associated with writing tales such as Snow White, and Rapunzel, that is not the case. These stories existed long before they were even born. These two men went on a quest to save the tales from extinction. The two men interviewed many people collecting these stories. It was said that they embellished the stories at the time, something that they denied. In 1812 they published their first volume which included 82 stories. The title was Kinder-und Hausmärchen. Over the ages, they would update that volume by adding and deleting tales. Originally these stories were not written for kids due to the graphic nature. The Grimm’s collection of fairy tales was in its 7th edition when Wilhelm Grimm died in 1859. By that point, the collection had grown to 211 stories and included intricate illustrations. Jacob − who had lived with Wilhelm and his wife − died in 1863 ("The Publication of Grimm’s Fairy Tales | History Today,"