Once upon a time : a short history of fairy tale

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Label

Once upon a time : a short history of fairy tale

Title remainder

a short history of fairy tale

Statement of responsibility

Marina Warner

Creator

• Warner, Marina, 1946-

Author

• Warner, Marina, 1946-

Subject

• Fairy tales -- Adaptations
• Fairy tales -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over her long writing career, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich collection of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. She makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GR550

LC item number

.W39 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography