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Christian Perspectives: Explorations of the Fairy tale HUM 422: Finding Library Materials

Books/eBooks

Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Ed. Jack Zipes. London: Penguin 2004. Print.

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Ed. Hugh Haughton. London: Penguin, 2003. Print.

Cole, Joanna. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. New York: Anchor, 1983. Print

Collodi, Carlo. Pinocchio. 1883. 1944. Trans. E. Harden. Illus. Roberto Innocenti. New York: Knopf, 1988. Print.

Dunsany, Lord. The King of Elfland’s Daughter. 1924. New York: Ballantine, 1999. Print.

———. In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales. Ed. S. T. Joshi. London: Penguin, 2004. Print.

Goldman, William. The Princess Bride. New York: Ballantine, 1973. Print

Hoffmann, E. T. A. The Best Tales of Hoffmann. Ed. E. F. Bleiler. New York: Dover, 1979. Print

Hoffmann, E. T. A., and Alexandre Dumas. Nutcracker and Mouse King; The Tale of the Nutcracker. Trans. Joachim Neugroschel. London: Penguin, 2007. Print

Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies. 1863. Ed. Richard D. Beards. London: Penguin, 2008. Print

MacDonald, George. Phantastes. 1858. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1981. Print.

Novalis. Henry von Ofterdingen. Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 1964. Print.

Schönwerth, Franz Xavier von. The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales. Trans. Maria Tatar. Ed. Erika Eichenseer. London: Penguin, 2015. Print.

Stoker, Bram. Under the Sunset. 1882. North Hollywood, CA: Newcastle, 1978. Print.

Yeats, William Butler, ed. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. 1892. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993. Print.

Zipes, Jack, ed. Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. Print.

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. 1976. New York: Vintage, 2010. Print

Chesterton G. K. Tremendous Trifles. London: Methuen, 1909. Print

Joshi, S. T. The Weird Tale. 1990. 2nd ed. Holicong, PA: Wildside, 2003. Print.

Lewis, C. S. Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories. San Diego: Harvest, 1994. Print.

Lurie, Alison. Don’t Tell the Grown-ups: Why Kids Love the Books They Do. Boston: Little Brown, 1990. Print.

Lüthi, Max. Once upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1976. Print.

Prickett, Stephen. Victorian Fantasy. 1979. 2nd ed. Waco: Baylor UP, 2005. Print

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series 9. Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics 10. Rev. ed. Trans. Laurence Scott. Ed. Louis Wagner. Austin: U of Texas P, 1968. Print.

---. Theory and History of Folklore. Theory and History of Literature 5. Trans. Ariadna Y. Martin and Richard P. Martin. Ed. Anatoly Liberman. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984. Print.

Tatar, Maria. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. Print.

---. Off with Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992. Print.

Browse for books: Call Numbers

Each Branch library is arranged according the the Library of Congress Classification system. Once you know the general area where books on your topic are kept, it can be very effective to browse the shelves. How to read a call number

  • BL: Mythology & World Religions
  • E 98 and E 99: Native American & Indigenous legends, traditional stories, and creation stories
  • GR 99.6 - GR 390: Folklore from particular countries and regions
  • PZ 8: Fairytales
  • PZ 8.1: Folktales 
  • PZ 8.2: Fables

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Folklore--Dictionaries
Mythology--Dictionaries
Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Authors -- Biography.
Children's literature, European -- History and criticism
Fairy tales -- Authorship.
Children's literature Dictionaries
Fairy tales in literature
Fairy tales Adaptations
Fairy tales
Tales
Tales History and criticism
Tales Structural analysis