The Cambridge companion to fairy tales /

Other Authors: Tatar, Maria,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Fairy tales, copyright, and the public domain
  • Female tricksters as double agents
  • While beauty sleeps : the poetics of male violence in Perceforest and AlmodoÌ桲's Talk to her
  • Fairy-tale adaptations and economies of desire
  • Fairy-tale symbolism
  • Trickster heroes in "The boy steals the ogre's treasure"
  • Exploring empathy and ethics in tales about three brothers
  • The creation of Cinderella from Basile to the Brothers Grimm
  • The soul music of "The juniper tree"
  • Sex, crime, magic, and mystery in the Thousand and one nights
  • Media-hyping of fairy tales
  • Transformations of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tales from Hawthorne to Oz.