Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781554810437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 584 str.

Christine A. Jones; Jennifer Schacker

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An anthology of tales and original critical essays that moves beyond canonized "classics" and old paradigms.

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PREFACE

PART I: THE TALES

• Introduction: “How to Read a Fairy Tale,” Jennifer Schacker and Christine A. Jones

A. EARLY WRITTEN TRADITIONS

1. Anon., Egyptian Tales (New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, c. 1298-1187 BCE; translated by Edward F. Wente, Jr., 2003)
   The Tale of Two Brothers


2. Lucius Apuleius, Metamorphoses (mid-2nd century ACE; translated by Jack Lindsay, 1960)
   The Old Woman’s Tale (excerpt)


3. Marie de France, “Le Fresne” (c. 1160; translated by Judith P. Shoaf, 1996)
   Le Fresne


4. Anon., Alf Layla wa Layla (14th century; translated by Husain Haddawy, 1990)
   The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier’s Daughter

B. EARLY PRINT TRADITIONS

5. Giovan Francesco Straparola, Le Piacevoli notti (1551, 1553; translated by Nancy Canepa, 2011)
   Crazy Pietro, Night Three, Tale 1
   Costantino Fortunato, Night Eleven, Tale 1
   King Pig, Night Two, Tale 1

• R.I. [Richard Johnson], The History of Tom Thumbe, the Little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthur’s Dwarfe (1621) [website]

6. Giambatista Basile, Lo cunto de li cunti (1634-36; translated by Nancy Canepa, 2007)
   The Cinderella Cat (Sixth Entertainment of the First Day)
   The Old Woman Who Was Skinned (Tenth Entertainment of the First Day)
   Cagliuso (Fourth Entertainment of the Second Day)
   Sun, Moon, and Talia (Fifth Entertainment of the Fifth day)


7. Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier de Villandon, Oeuvres meslées (1696; translated by Robert Samber, 1729)
   The Discreet Princess; or the Adventures of Finetta. A Novel


8. Catherine Bernard, Inès de Courdoue (1696; translated by Christine A. Jones, 2011)
   Riquet à la Houppe

• Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force, “The Enchanter,” Les Contes des Contes (1697; translated by Lewis Seifert and Domna Stanton, 2010) [website]

9. Charles Perrault, Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697; translated by Christine A. Jones, 2011)Blue Beard
   Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
   The Little Red Riding Hood
   Sleeping Beauty


10. Marie-Catherine D’Aulnoy, Les Contes des Fées (1698)
    The Fairies’ Tales (translated by Christine A. Jones, 2011)
    Finette Cendron (translated by Elizabeth Lee and Annie Macdonell, 1892)


11. Henriette-Julie de Murat, Histoires sublimes et allégoriques (1699; translated by Allison Stedman, 2011)
    The Savage, A Story


12. Anne-Claude Phillip de Tubière-Grimoard de Pestels Levieux de Lévis, Comte de Caylus, Marquis d’Esternay, Baron de Bransac, Féeries nouvelles (1741; translated by Roswell M. Field, 1917)
    Sylvain and Jocosa


13. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, The Misses Magazine, Containing Dialogues between a Governess and Several of Ladies of Quality Her Scholars (1759)
    Beauty and the Beast

C. ROMANTICISM TO THE FIN DE SIÈCLE

• Johann Ludwig Tieck, “The Elves,” Phantasus vol. 1 (1812; translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1827) [website]

14. Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, Kinder-und Hausmärchen (1812 and 1815, 1819, 1857; translated by Jack Zipes [1987] 2002)
    Hansel and Gretel
    The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes
    Snow White
    The Maiden without Hands
    Six Swans


15. Thomas Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1823)
    The Crookened Back


16. Hans Christian Andersen, Eventyr, fortalte for børn (1835-45; translated by Tiina Nunnally, 2004)
    The Tinderbox
    The Princess on the Pea
    The Red Shoes


17. Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Norske Folkeeventyr (1845-48; translated by George Webbe Dasent, 1858)
    East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon
    Tatterhood
    Little Annie the Goose Girl

• George Cruikshank, “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper,” Gorge Cruikshank’s Fairy Library (1854) [website]

18. Aleksandr Afanas’ev, Narodnye russkie skazki (1855-64; translated by Helena Goscilo, 2005)
    The Frog Princess
    Baga Yagazas
    The Maiden Tsar
    Danilo the Luckless


19. John Francis Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands (1860)
    The Story of the White Pet


20. Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
    Goblin Market


21. Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Bluebeard’s Keys and Other Stories (1874)
    Bluebeard’s Keys (excerpt)


22. Mary de Morgan, On a Pincushion, and Other Fairy Tales (1877)
    A Toy Princess

• Henriette Kühne-Harkort, Snow White, Freely Adapted from the Grimms (1877, theater script; translated by Shawn C. Jarvis, 2001) [website]

23. Luigi Capuana, C’era una volta … fiabe (1882)
    The Talking Tree


24. Flora Annie Steel and Richard Carnac Temple, Wide Awake Stories, A Collection of Tales Told by Little Children, Between Sunrise and Sunset, in the Panjab and Kashmir (1884)
    Princess Aubergine


25. Rosamund Marriott Watson, The Bird-Bride: A Volume of Ballads and Sonnets (1889)
    Ballad of the Bird-Bride

• Victor Stevens, Little Red Riding Hood, or The Saucy Squire of Sunnydale (1900, pantomime script) [website]

D. MODERN/POSTMODERN TALES

26. Daniil Kharms, “A Children’s Story” (c. 1920s-1930s; translated by George Gibian, 1971)
    A Children’s Story


27. Arkady Gaidar, “Skazka o voennoi taine, o Mal’chishe i ego tverdom slove” (1935; translated by Helena Goscilo, 2005)
    The Tale of the Military Secret, Malchish-Kibalchish and His Solemn Word


28. Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Cat’s Cradle-Book (1940)
    Bluebeard’s Daughter


29. Gianni Rodari, Venti storie piu una (1969; translated by Nancy Canepa, 2011)
    Nino and Nina


30. Anne Sexton, Transformations (1971)
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


31. Robert Coover, Briar Rose (1996)
    Briar Rose (excerpt)


32. Nalo Hopkinson, Skin Folk (2001)
    The Glass Bottle Trick


33. Neil Gaiman, “Instructions” (2000)
    Instructions


34. Kelly Link, “Swans” (2000)Swans


35. Marina Warner, “The Difference in the Dose” (2010)
    The Difference in the Dose: A Story after Rapunzel

E. CONTEMPORARY TRANSCRIPTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

36. John Alden Mason, “Juan Bobo and the Riddling Princess: A Puerto Rican Folktale,” translated by William Bernard McCarthy (2005)
    Juan Bobo and the Riddling Princess: A Puerto Rican Folktale, performer unknown (c.1914-15)


37. J. Manuel Espinosa, Cuentos de Cuanto Hay/Tales from Spanish New Mexico (1931), translated and reworked by Joe Hayes (1998)
    The Enchanted Frog, performed by Alesnio Chacon, 1931


38. Linda Dégh, Hungarian Folktales: The Art of Zsuzanna Palkó (1995), translated by Vera Kalm (1995)
    The Serpent Prince, performed by Zsuzanna Palkó, 1950


39. A.K. Ramanujan, Folktales of India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-Two Languages, 1991
    Hanchi, performed by Chennamma, 1955


40. Marius Barbeau, The Golden Phoenix and Other French-Canadian Fairy Tales (1958), retold by Michael Hornyansky
    The Princess of Tomboso, performed by Marcel Tremblay, 1916


41. Hasan M. El-Shamy, Tales Arab Women Tell, and the Behavioral Patterns They Portray (1999)
    The Daughters of the Bean Vendor, performed by Tahiyyah M., 1971


42. Donald Braid, Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped Through Stories (2002)
    The Boy and the Blacksmith, performed by Duncan Williamson, 1987

PART II: CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL APPROACHES

Introduction: How to Read the Critical Essays, Jennifer Schacker and Christine A. Jones

GENRE

• On Fairy Tales and Their Anthologies, Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker
  Intertextuality, Gina M. Miele
  Fairy Tales as Metacommentary in Manga and Anime, Bill Ellis

IDEOLOGY

• Fairy Tales and the Ideology of Gender, Cristina Bacchilega
  Ideology, Statecraft, and Subversion, Marina Balina
  Ideology and the Importance of Socio-Political and Gender Contexts, Anne E. Duggan

AUTHORSHIP

• Authorship in Oral Narrative, Henry Glassie
  The Case of the Disappearing Author, Elizabeth Wanning Harries
  Oral versus Literary Tales: A New Approach to Issues of Authorship, Armando Maggi

RECEPTION

• Dear Reader, Donald Haase
  The Fairy Tale in Victorian England, Molly Clark Hillard
  Sexuality and the Women Fairy Tale Writers of the 1690s, Sophie Raynard

TRANSLATION

• Geographical Translocations and Cultural Transformations, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
  The Translation of Enchantment, Nancy L. Canepa
  The Wonder of the Arabian Nights in English, Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS