General Sources

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• Baker, Donald. Functions of Folk and Fairy Tales. Washington, D.C.: Association for Childhood Education International, 1981.
• Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales . New York : Knopf, 1976.
• Canton, Katia. The Fairy Tale Revisited : a Survey of the Evolution of the Tales, From Classical Literary Interpretations to Innovative Contemporary Dance-Theater Productions. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.
• Chinen, Allan B. Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993.
• The classic fairy tales : texts, criticism (Norton critical edition). Norton, 1998.
• Dundes, Alan. Folklore Matters. Tennessee: Univ. of Tennessee Pr., 1993.
• Dundes, Alan. Interpreting Folklore Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1980.
• Ellis, John M. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales. University of Chicago Press, 1983.
• Fairy Tales and Society : Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
• Fairy Tales as Ways of Knowing : Essays on Marchen in Psychology, Society and Literature. Las Vegas: P. Lang, 1981.
• Folklore Interpreted : Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes. Garland, 1996.
• Fohr, S. D. Cinderella's Gold Slipper : Spiritual Symbolism in the Grimm's Tales. Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1991.
• Franz, Marie-Luise von. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Boston: Shambhala, 1996.
• Franz, Marie-Louise von. An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Dallas, Tex.: Spring Publications, 1987
• Fromm, Erich. The Forgotten Language; an Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths. New York, Grove Press, 1957
• Grimm's grimmest. Chronicle, 1997.
• Hardland, Edwin Sidney Mythology and Folktales; Their Relation and Interpretation. AMS Press, 1977.
• Jason, Heda. Whom does God Favor : the Wicked or the Righteous? : the Reward-and-Punishment Fairy Tale. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1988.
• Jones, Marc Edmund. Man, Magic and Fantasy: The Domestication of Imagination . Stanwood, Wash. : Sabian Pub. Society, 1978.
• Jones, Steven Swann. The Fairy Tale : The Magic Mirror of Imagination. New York: Twayne Publishers ,1995.
• Kamenetsky, Christa. The Brothers Grimm & Their Critics : Folktales and the Quest for Meaning. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992.
• King, James Roy. Old Tales and New Truths : Charting the Bright-Shadow World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
• Koch, E.R. Seeing Through the Mother Goose Tales. Middletown, 1997.
• Lane, Marcia. Picturing the Rose : a Way of Looking at Fairy Tales. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1994.
• Luthi, Max. The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
• Meyer, Rudolf. The Wisdom of Fairy Tales. Edinburgh: Anthroposophic Press, 1988.
• Mieder, Wolfgang. Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature. Hanover : University Press of New England, 1987.
• Nutt, Alfred Trubner The Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare. AMS Press, 1972.
• Propp, Vladimir Aioakovlevich. Morphology of the folktale Univ. of Texas, 1968.
• Rank, Otto, Lord Raglan and Alan Dundes. In Quest of the Hero : the myth of the birth of the hero. New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1990.
• Siikala, Anna-Leena Interpreting oral narrative. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, ?.
• Riedel, Ingrid. Taboo in Folktales. New York: Fromm International Pub., 1995.
• Tatar, Marina M. The hard facts of the Grimms' fairy tales. Princeton Univ. Pr., 1990.
• Thompson, Chad K'etetaalkkaanee : the one who paddled among the people and animals : an analytical companion volume. Yukon Koyukuk School District; Univ. of Alaska, ?
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel). Tree and Leaf : Including the Poem Mythopoeia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989
• Victorian fairy tales : the revolt of the fairies and elves. Routledge, 1989.
• Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde : on Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
• Warner, Marina. Nogo the bogeyman : scaring, lulling, and making mock. Farrar, Straus & Girous, 1999.
• Warner, Marina. Six myths of our time : little angels, little monsters, beautiful beasts, and more. Vintage, 1995.
• Wisdom of Many : Essays on the Proverb. Austin, 1996.
• Witches, Ogres, and the Devil's Daughter : Encounters With Evil in Fairy Tales. [Translation of Bose im Marchen] Boston: Shambhala, 1992.
• Zipes, Jack David. Beauties, beasts, and enchantment : classic French fairy tales.
• Zipes, Jack David. Breaking the Magic Spell : Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: Methuen, 1984.
• Zipes, Jack David. The Brothers Grimm : From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Routledge, 1988.
• Zipes, Jack David. Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
• Zipes, Jack David. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. Routledge, 1988.
• Zipes, Jack David. Happily ever after : fairy tales, children and the culture industry. Routledge, 1997.
• Zipes, Jack David. When dreams come true : classical fairy tales and their tradition. Routledge, 1998.