The Classic Fairy Tales
The Classic Fairy Tales
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 rescripting, 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.
Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 12/12/2016
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393602975
About the Author
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.