The Cambridge companion to fairy tales / 
edited by Maria Tatar. 
 - xiii, 252 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - Cambridge companions to literature. .
 - Cambridge companions to literature. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Fairy tales, copyright, and the public domain -- Female tricksters as double agents -- While beauty sleeps : the poetics of male violence in Perceforest and AlmodoÌvar'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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Text in English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107634879 (pbk) 1107634873 (pbk) 9781107031012 (hbk) 110703101X (hbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015302682 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fairy tales.<br/>Fairy tales--History and criticism.<br/>Fairy tales.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GR550  / .C37 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>398.2