Selected Annotated Bibliography on the Brothers Grimm and their Tales Several of these titles are on reserve under Yocom ENGL 491 Folklore and Gender and ENGL 513 Folk Narrative and Storytelling. Bacchilega, Cristina. 1997. Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. Interpretation of folktales and their contemporary revisions in literature and film by Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Margaret Atwood, Jane Campion and others. Includes Bluebeard, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast. Bolte, Johannes. 1994 [19??]. Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmarchen der Bruder Grimm. New York: Georg Olms. Bottigheimer, Ruth B., ed. 1986. Fairy Tales and Society. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Articles on the history and interpretation of the marchen and of the Grimm brothers treatment of marchen. Tatar, Bottigheimer, Rowe, Stone on feminist issues. Structural, semiotic approaches. Also: Zipes, Dundes. Stone on storytelling revival in N America. Therapeutic uses of tales. Criminological significance of tales. Bottigheimer, Ruth B. 1987. Grimms' Bad Girls & Bold Boys: The Moral & Social Vision of the Tales. New Haven: Yale University Press. Collection of her essays on history of tales; on magic, prohibitions, punishment, death; on towers, forests, and trees; on Christian values; on spinning; on work, money, anti-semitism; on eroticism; on power, powerlessness. Especially good is essay that uses versions of Cinderella to show how Grimms edited to give wicked women and men more direct speech (and therefore, subjectivity). Cohn, Michael. 1997. Snow White: A Tale of Terror. film. Darnton, Robert. 1984. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Basic Books. Section on the history of the Grimm brothers' tales. Dundes, Alan. 1987. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Grimms' Tales with Special Reference to "The Maiden without Hands" (AT 706). The Germanic Review 42:50-65. Dundes, Alan, ed. 1989. Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Collection of versions of and essays about LRRH. Includes Grimm version, also Asian versions of "Grandaunt Tiger." Zipes on LRRH as male creation and projection; Dundes on psychoanalytic interpretation. Dundes, Alan, ed. [1982]1988. Cinderella: A Casebook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Collection of versions of and essays about Cinderella, including its earliest Chinese version and its distribution all over the world. Several essays that show the tale in living contexts: see especially Mills, "A Cinderella Variant in the Context of a Muslim Women's Ritual" and Falassi "Cinderella in Tuscany." Also, a study of the folktale source of Shakespeare's King Lear. Includes Grimm brothers' version. Ellis, John. 1983. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and their Tales. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. On the editing of the tales by the brothers Grimm. Appendix provides English translations of several versions (manuscript, 1812, and others) of Grimm tales. (out of print; not in Fenwick) Estis, Clarissa Pinkola. 1992. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. New York: Ballantine Books. Jungian analysis of marchen. Discusses tales included in the Grimm brothers collection. Bluebeard, Animal Groom, Vasalisa (the doll in her pocket), Wild Man, Ugly Duckling, Sealskin, La Llorona, Baubo, Coyote, Bear, Trees, Three Gold Hairs, Woman with Hair of Gold, Handless Maiden. Writes of the body in "fairy tales." Foley, John Miles, ed. 1998. Teaching Oral Traditions. New York: Modern Language Association. Introduction to nature and scope of oral traditions; presents methods of studying them; gives 25 tutorials on commonly taught works; and offers pedagogical examples and AV resources. Haase, Donald, ed. 1993. The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Especially interesting is Jarvis' essay on women who began re-writing Grimm in 1843. Other essays on re-visions of Grimms' tales. Hallett, Martin, and Barbara Karasek, eds. 1996. Folk and Fairy Tales 2/e. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. Textbook with tales, re-visions, and critical essays. Jarvis, Shawn. 1993. Trivial Pursit? Women Deconstructing the Grimmian Model in the Kaffeterkreis. In The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales, edited by D. Haase. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. German women in 1843 rewrite Grimms' tales. Kamenetsky, Christa. 1984. Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Includes sections on German and Norse folktales and sagas, as well as the use of German folklore (including festival, ritual) in schools to promote National Socialism. Leavy, Barbara Fass. 1994. In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender. New York: New York University Press. Discusses the marchen type of the animal husband/wife/partner and its literary formulations. Though no discussion of the Grimm brothers, study speaks of tales in their collection. Swan Maiden. Demon Lover. Captured fairy bride. Cupid and Psyche. Frog Prince. Loathly Ladies. Russalka. Orpheus and Eurydice. Runaway wives: Ibsen's Doll House. L|thi, Max. [1947] 1986. The European Folktale: Form and Nature. Translated by Niles, John D. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Essay on the textual characteristics of the marchen: one dimensionality, depthlessness, abstract style, isolation and universal connection, sublimation and all-inclusiveness. Function and significance of the folktale, scholarship on folktale, the significance of Vladimir Propp's work. Discusses the tales also written by the Grimm brothers. L|thi, Max. [1970] 1976. Once Upon A Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Translated by Chadeayne, Lee and Gottwald, Paul. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Summary of author's earlier work for a more general audience. Especially good is essay "Rapunzel: The Fairy Tale as Representation of a Maturation Process." Particular focus on Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, White Snake, Rapunzel. Essay on fairy tale hero. L|thi, Max. [1975] 1987. The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man. Translated by Erickson, Jon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Textual characteristics of the marchen: beauty and its shock effect, style and composition (formulas, structure, stability and dynamism) technical means and artistic effects, interaction of motifs and themes, fairytale hero and secondary figures. Discussion of tales included by Grimm brothers. McGlathery, James M., ed. 1988. The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. Urbana: University of Illinois. Essays include psychoanalytic analysis of LRR, revisions of SW, how how the Grimms added proverbs to their tales, other issues in the Grimms' editing of the tales, use of tales pre-Grimm in German families, Zipes "Dreams of a Better Bourgeois Life," Hearne on revisions of Grimm tales. McGlathery, James M. 1993. Grimms' Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Columbia, SC: Camden House. Discussion of the history of criticism on Grimms' Fairy Tales. Sexton, Anne. 19. Transformations. Poems. Reworkings of several marchen, including many from the Grimm collection. Opening poem explains the narrator's intent. Includes Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and more. Stone, Kay. 1998. Burning Brightly: New Light on Old Tales Told Today. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. Professional storytelling in North America today. Contains revisions of marchen. Chapter on Susan Gordon's version of "The Juniper Tree" and Kay Stone's version of "The Curious Girl" ("Frau Trude"). Taggart, James M. 1990. Enchanted Maidens: Gender Relations in Spanish Folktales of Courtship and Marriage. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Differences in versions of marchen told by women and men in Spain. Tales also included in Grimm brothers collection: Snow White, Cinderella, animal groom tales. Tatar, Maria. 1987. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Discussion of editing techniques and publishing history. Her main concern is the enduring hold the stories have, an she suggests that the tales translate psychic realities (not Jungian archetypes) into concrete images, characters, and events. VandeVelde, Vivian, ed. 1995. Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Wierd. Los Angeles: Harcourt Brace & Company. Grimms' tales given modern twists and touches: Jane Yolen, Tanith Lee. Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, and more. von Franz, Marie-Louise. [1974] 1995. Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales. Boston: Shambala. Jungian interpretation of marchen. How aspects of the shadow are personified in giants, monsters, ghosts, demons, evil kings, and wicked witches of the tales. How problems of the shadow manifest themselves differently in men and women. How ghost stories reflect the psychology of grieving. What fairy tales advise us about our attitude toward evil. Concludes that rules of behavior we learn from the unconscious through "fairy tales" is usually a paradox: sometimes there must be a physical struggle against evil an sometimes a contest of wits, sometimes a display of strength or magic and sometimes a retreat. Importance of relying on the central, authentic core of our being--the innermost Self. Walker, Barbara G. 1996. Feminist Fairy Tales. New York: HarperCollins. Re-vision of marchen, some that are also in Grimm brothers' collection. Includes Cinderella, Riding Hood, Frog Prince, Snow White, Thomas Rhymer, and more. Warner, Marina. 1994. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. Study of the history and meaning of marchen and the literary fairy tale. Discuss why the tellers are often women and how that fact affects the status of the tales. Suggests tales are skillful vehicles by which adults convey advice, warning, and hope to themselves and others. Windling, Terri, ed. 1995. The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors. New York: Tom Doherty Associates. Zipes, Jack. 1979. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: Methuen. Focuses on the socio-historical forces which have changed the function of "fairy tales" during the last three centuries. Also discusses their use by a wide range of authors, including Grimms, Perrault, HC Andersen, Oscar Wilde, and JRR Tolkien. Zipes proposes that the tales once sought to celebrate humankind's capacity to transform the mundane into the utopian, but that this function has been cast under the paralyzing spell of commodity production. His aim in this study is to set the magic free again. Zipes, Jack, ed. 1983. The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood: Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey. Discussion of tale's history and use from its earliest oral versions until the 1980s. Collection of literary reworkings of the story. Many illustrations that also offer interpretations. "It is impossible to exaggerate the impact and importance of the LRRH syndrome as a dominant cultural pattern in Western societies. . . [I]n her two most popular literary forms, LRRH is a male creation and projection" (56). Zipes, Jack. 1988. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Routledge. Collection of essays. Especially interesting is "Once There Were Two Brothers Names Grimm: A Reintroduction," with its succinct summary of the history of the Grimms, their editing and publication practices, and Zipes' Marxist critique of the tales. A shortened form of this essay preceeds his translation of the Grimms' tales: The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1987). Essays on psycho-social situation of the Grimm brothers and its influence on the tales, the historical setting of the Grimms' production of the tales, and more.