Once upon a time : a short history of fairy tale / Marina Warner.

By:

Warner, Marina, 1946-

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780198718659
0198718659

Subject(s):

Fairy tales -- History and criticism

Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

DDC classification:

398.209 23

LOC classification:

GR550 .W39 2014

Contents:

The worlds of faery : far away & down below -- With a touch of her wand : magic & metamorphosis -- Voices on the page : tales, tellers, & translators -- Potato soup : true stories/real life -- Childish things : pictures & conversations -- On the couch : house-training the id -- In the dock : don't bet on the prince -- Double vision : the dream of reason -- On stage & screen : states of illusion.

Summary: Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over her long writing career, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich collection of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. She makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.

List(s) this item appears in: ENG 210 - Folk and Fairy Tale Resources

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	GR550 .W39 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001362986

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index.

Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over her long writing career, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich collection of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. She makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.