Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales
of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his ...
The famous fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm - stories like Snow White , Red
Riding Hood , and Rumplestiltskin - are know to millions of people around the world and are deeply embedded in the collective psyche. In this ...
Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, the issue
of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes ...
Most of today's familiar fairy tales come from the stories of Charles Perrault, the Brothers
Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, but this innovative study encourages us to explore the marvelous tales of authors from the early modern period Giovanni Straparola, ...
In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max Lüthi, the traditional fairytale is
examined from two related points of view, that of aesthetics and that of anthropology. Lüthi shows that fairytales are more than just a pleasing form; ...
This concise version of Folk and Fairy Tales is designed to provide a more compact
and versatile collection for teaching children’s literature. Like the complete edition, it includes comparative versions of classic tales (Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and ...
Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothingsuch are the examples Kant's Critique
of Judgment offers for a free and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the ...
With a text revised and corrected by the author, this definitive edition of Individuation in Fairy
Tales is rich with insights from religion, literature, and myth. Dr. von Franz focuses on the symbolism of the bird motif in six fairy tales of ...