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Product Description: Just about everyone is familiar with folk and fairy tales. Children learn about them from parents, teachers, and other adults, while researchers study these tales at colleges and universities. At the same time, folk and fairy tales are inseparable from everyday life and popular culture...read more
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9780313328107 | Greenwood Pub Group, May 30, 2004, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: Just about everyone is familiar with folk and fairy tales.

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Product Description: Using Beaumont’s classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how "Beauty and the Beast" takes on different meanings as it is analyzed by psychologists, illustrated in picture books, adapted to the screen, and rewritten by contemporary writers...read more
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9781551115634 | Broadview Pr, March 30, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Using Beaumont’s classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how "Beauty and the Beast" takes on different meanings as it is analyzed by psychologists, illustrated in picture books, adapted to the screen, and rewritten by contemporary writers.

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Critical essays explore the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced prominent creators of fairy tales, and analyze significant works.
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9780613642774 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $35.20 | About this edition: Critical essays explore the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced prominent creators of fairy tales, and analyze significant works.

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Product Description: What Treasures Are Hidden in the Enchanted Woods?More than just bedtime traditions, more than simple children’s literature, the most enduring stories are echoes of the greatest of all stories, the Gospel. God of the Fairy Tale is a collection of spiritual reflections on the truths found in classic fairy tales, truths that point us to the ultimate Truth about God, redemption, and ourselves...read more
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9780877880493 | 1 edition (Harold Shaw Pub, October 1, 2003), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: What Treasures Are Hidden in the Enchanted Woods?

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Product Description: Fairy tales, often said to be ''timeless'' and fundamentally ''oral,'' have a long written history. However, argues Elizabeth Wanning Harries in this provocative book, a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. The short, subtly didactic fairy tales of Charles Perrault and the Grimms have determined our notions about what fairy tales should be like...read more
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9780691074443 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral", have a long written history.

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9780691115672 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2003, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Fairy tales, often said to be ''timeless'' and fundamentally ''oral,'' have a long written history.
9780691074450 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Fairy tales, often said to be ''timeless'' and fundamentally ''oral,'' have a long written history.

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Essays discuss the history and development of fairy tales in cultures from all over the world and throughout history, including adaptation for film, art, opera, ballet, music, and commercial use.
By Jack David Zipes (editor)
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9780198601159 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 18, 2000, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 'Researchers from scholars to the general public will find this reference source an excellent starting place to find definitions, summaries, authors, artists, and regional and historical overviews of fairy tales, past and present.

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9780198605096 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 25, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the history and development of fairy tales in cultures from all over the world and throughout history, including adaptation for film, art, opera, ballet, music, and commercial use.

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Product Description: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the romantic myth of the brothers as wandering scholars, who gathered "authentic" tales from the peasantry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780312293802 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, December 6, 2002), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm.

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Product Description: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the romantic myth of the brothers as wandering scholars, who gathered "authentic" tales from the peasantry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781403960658 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, December 6, 2002), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm.
9780415900812 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm.

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9780415902090 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 1, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Who were the Brothers Grimm?

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Product Description: One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of folklorist and critics to provide the student with a stunning, lucid overview of the genre and a solid understanding of its structure...read more
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9780415938914 | Routledge, August 1, 2002, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world.

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Product Description: This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780292707252 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The evolution of the fairy tale from the folk tale and their fascination for the modern reader are examined

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9780813190303 | 2 rev exp edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 5, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world.
9780415907194 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 1, 1993), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This text explores, in both historical and critical contexts, the evolution of folk tales and fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them and their incorporation in mass media culture today.

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9780838639238 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $48.50

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Product Description: The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition is indispensable for students of fairy tales.The tales—116 in all—are thematically grouped. Each grouping is introduced and annotated by Jack Zipes, the genre’s reigning expert...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jack David Zipes (editor)
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9780393976366 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $28.40 | About this edition: The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition is indispensable for students of fairy tales.

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A Jungian psychoanalyst and author of Women Who Run with the Wolves analyzes the archetype of the wise old woman, exploring the beauty, passion, wisdom, and opportunity for self-discovery that can enrich our lives. 750,000 first printing. QPB Main. BOMC Alt. Tour.
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9780679450979, titled "Dangerous Old Woman: Myths and Stories of the Wise Old Woman Archetype" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A Jungian psychoanalyst and author of Women Who Run with the Wolves analyzes the archetype of the wise old woman, exploring the beauty, passion, wisdom, and opportunity for self-discovery that can enrich our lives.

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9780679774099 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, October 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A Jungian psychoanalyst and author of Women Who Run with the Wolves analyzes the archetype of the wise old woman, exploring the beauty, passion, wisdom, and opportunity for self-discovery that can enrich our lives.
9780345406309, titled "The Dangerous Old Woman: Myths & Stories of the Wise Old Woman Archetype" | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Dr.

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9781564554178 | Sounds True, December 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Dr.

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Critical essays explore the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced prominent creators of fairy tales, and analyze significant works. (view table of contents)
By Jann Einfeld (editor)
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9780737704167 | Greenhaven Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Critical essays explore the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced prominent creators of fairy tales, and analyze significant works.

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9780737704174 | Greenhaven Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $36.20 | About this edition: Critical essays explore the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced prominent creators of fairy tales, and analyze significant works.

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Product Description: Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant’s Critique of Judgment offers for a “free” and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus’s book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely “modern” phenomena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780804729512 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $57.95

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9780804729529 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant’s Critique of Judgment offers for a “free” and purely aesthetic beauty.

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Explains how fairy tales help children deal with emotional conflicts, and discusses the roles played by the various objects and characters found in fairy tales (view table of contents)
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9780465091485 | Basic Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explains how fairy tales help children deal with emotional conflicts, and discusses the roles played by the various objects and characters found in fairy tales

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Product Description: Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: "Snow White," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Bluebeard...read more
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9780812233926 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to analyze their varying representations of women.

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9780812216837 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies.

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Product Description: Our most popular fairy tales and nursery rhymes are based on ancient myths about the sun, the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, and summer and winter solstices. These myths span the globe and are thousands of years old, even dating to the late Ice Age and before...read more
By Matt Kane and Joe Servello (illustrator)
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9780966707618 | Golden Egg Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Our most popular fairy tales and nursery rhymes are based on ancient myths about the sun, the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, and summer and winter solstices.

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Product Description: For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? Until now we have lacked a social history of the fairy tale to frame our understanding of the role it plays in our lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415921503 | Routledge, December 1, 1998, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave.

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Focusing on six types of tales in variants from around the world, essays explore the genre, cultural implications, and critical history. (view table of contents)
By Maria M. Tatar (editor)
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9780393972771 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $24.15 | About this edition: Focusing on six types of tales in variants from around the world, essays explore the genre, cultural implications, and critical history.
9789990060805 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: " Whether called "the good people," "the little people," or simply "them," fairies are familiar from their appearances in Shakespeare's plays, Disney's films, and points in between. In many cultures, however, fairies are not just the stuff of distant legend or literature: they are real creatures with supernatural powers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Narvaez (editor)
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9780824071004 | Reprint edition (Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1992), cover price $80.00

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9780813109398 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 6, 1997), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: " Whether called "the good people," "the little people," or simply "them," fairies are familiar from their appearances in Shakespeare's plays, Disney's films, and points in between.

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Product Description: Gathered from around the world and culled by the author from 7,000 folktales, these stories of a vigorous, potent femininity beyond that of the helpless princess focus on mature, capable women and set traditional plots on their ears...read more
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9780874778182 | J P Tarcher, June 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Notes on well-known myths and case studies from the author's therapy practice accompany a collection of folktales that reveal the complexity, and meaning of femininity

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9780874778632 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathered from around the world and culled by the author from 7,000 folktales, these stories of a vigorous, potent femininity beyond that of the helpless princess focus on mature, capable women and set traditional plots on their ears.

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9781562160357 | 2 rev sub edition (Systems Co, June 1, 1997), cover price $38.00

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9781562160364 | 2 revised edition (Systems Co, June 1, 1997), cover price $19.00

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Product Description: Use popular fairy tales and fairy-tale characters as springboards for learning, and help students develop problem-solving abilities and creative-writing skills. Adaptable to virtually any fairy tale and to a variety of learning environments and levels, these activities will challenge students to move beyond the simplistic study of tales to develop in-depth writing skills...read more
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9781563084829 | Teacher Ideas Pr, August 15, 1997, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Use popular fairy tales and fairy-tale characters as springboards for learning, and help students develop problem-solving abilities and creative-writing skills.

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Product Description: Addressing his ongoing concerns, the author of this text examines the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as a film. As a result of analyzing the historical trajectory of storytelling and the literary fairy tale, the essays in this volume move from the 16th century to the present, between different cultures and societies, and from specific analyses to general syntheses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415918503 | Routledge, March 1, 1997, cover price $131.00 | About this edition: Addressing his ongoing concerns, the author of this text examines the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as a film.

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9780415918510 | Routledge, March 1, 1997, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Addressing his ongoing concerns, the author of this text examines the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as a film.

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