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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.
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