SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT "SNOW WHITE," ILLUSTRATION, FOLKLORE, AND FAIRY TALES

Many of the items in this list are quoted in segments of this Snow White module, but every attempt has been made to include additional resources on the topics.

Andric, Ivo. Conversations with Goya. Bridges. Signs. Trans. By Celia Hawkesworth and Andrew Harvey. London: Menard Press with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1992.

Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Auerbach, Nina and U. C. Knoepflmacher. Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Baeten, Elizabeth M. The Magic Mirror: Myth's Abiding Power. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Bang, Molly. Picture This: Perception & Composition. Foreword by Rudolf Arnheim. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1991.

Behrens, Laurence and Leonard J. Rosen. Eds. Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 5th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Beitter, Ursula E. "Identity Crisis in Fairy-Tale Land: The Grimm Fairy Tales and Their Uses by Modern-Day Imitators," in Imagination, Emblems and Expressions: Essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and Continental Culture and Identity. Ed. by Helen Ryan-Ranson. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993, pp. 274-282.

Bettleheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Knopf, 1976.

The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore. ed. by Alan Dundes. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

Bosma, Bette. Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, and Myths: Using Folk Literature in Your Classroom. 2nd edition. New York: Teachers College Press, 1992.

Bottigheimer, Ruth B. Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

Bottigheimer, Ruth B. "Iconographic Continuity in Illustrations of The Goosegirl. Children's Literature. Vol. 13, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985, pp.49-71.

Bottigheimer, Ruth B. "The Publishing History of Grimms' Tales: Reception at the Cash Register," in The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions. ed. by Donald Haase. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1993, pp.78-101.

Bottigheimer, Ruth B. "From Gold to Guilt: The Forces Which Reshaped Grimms' Tales," in The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. ed. by James M. McGlathery and Others. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp.192-204.

Briggs, Katharine Mary. The Vanishing People: A Study of Traditional Fairy Beliefs. London: Batsford, 1978.

Briggs, Katharine M. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge and Paul, 1967.

The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. ed. by James M. McGlathery and others. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Brown, Carolyn S. The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee, 1987.

Canham, Stephen. "'What Manner of Beast? Illustrations of 'Beauty and the Beast,'" in Image & Maker: An Annual Dedicated to the Consideration of Book Illustration. ed. by Harold Darling and Peter Neumeyer. La Jolla, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1984, pp. 13-25.

Carden, Patricia. "Fairy Tale, Myth, and Literature: Russian Structuralist Approaches," in Literary Criticism and Myth. [Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, Vol. 9] ed. by Joseph P. Strelka. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980, pp. 179-197.

Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth. Translated by Suzanne Langer. New York: Dover, 1953.

Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook. ed. by Alan Dundes. New York: Garland, 1982.

Clark, H. Nichols B. "Happily Ever After . . .; Fairy Tales, Fables, and Myths," inMyth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. Introductory Essay by Michael Patrick Hearn. Essays by Trinkett Clark and H. Nichols B. Clark. Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart in Cooperation with the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1996, pp. 157-206.

Cohen, Betsy. The Snow White Syndrome: All About Envy. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Colum, Padraic. "Introduction," in The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales. Introduction by Padriac Colum. Commentary by Joseph Campbell. Illus. by Josef Scharl. New York: Pantheon Books, 1944, pp. vii-xiv.

Cook, Elizabeth. The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths Legends and Fairy Tales for Teachers and Storytellers. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Cruikshank, George. The Cruikshank Fairy-Book: Four Famous Stories: Puss in Boots, Jack and the Bean-Stalk, Hop-O'-My Thumb and Cinderella. Illus. by George Cruikshank. New York: Putnam, 1910.

Davenport, Tom. "Some Personal Notes on Adapting Folk-Fairy Tales to Film." Children's Literature. Vol. 9. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981, pp. 107-115.

Degh, Linda. "Grimms' Household Tales and Its Place in the Household: The Social Relevance of a Controversial Classic," Western Folklore. Vol. 39 (1979): 83-103.

Degh, Linda. "What Did the Grimm Brothers Give to and Take From the Folk?" in The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. ed. by James McGlathery and others. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 66-90.

Dorson, Richard M. The British Folklorists: A History. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Douglas, Mary. Implicit Meanings. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.

Dundes, Alan. The Study of Folklore. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965.

Elizagaray, Alga Marina. "The Ability to Dream: Adaptations, Translations, Folklore," in How Much Truth Do We Tell the Children? The Politics of Children's Literature. Ed. by Betty Bacon. Minneapolis, MN: Marxist Educational Press, 1988, pp. 85-91.

Ellis, John M. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Elms, Alan C. "'The Three Bears': Four Interpretations" Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 90, No. 357. (July-September 1977): 257-273.

Evil Eye: A Folklore Casebook. ed. by Alan Dundes. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes. ed. by L. Bruce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer and Stephen M. Sonnenberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1993.

Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. ed. by Ruth B. Bottigheimer. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Favat, F. Andre. Child and Tale: The Origins of Interest. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1977.

Finch, Christopher. The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973.

Fine, Elizabeth C. The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.

The Flood Myth. ed. by Alan Dundes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

Folk Literature and Children: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials. compiled by George Shannon. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Folklore and Folktales Around the World. ed. by Ruth Kearney Carlson. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 1972.

Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes. ed. by Regina Bendix and Rosemary L. Zunwalt. New York: Garland, 1996.

Franz, Marie-Louise von. The Feminine in Fairy Tales. Revised Edition. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1993.

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. ed. by Maria Leach. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1984.

Girardot, N. J. "Initiation and Meaning in the Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 90, No. 357 (July-September 1977): 274-300.

Girardot, N.J. "Response to Jones: "Scholarship Is Never Just the Sum of All Its Variants," Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 92, No. 363 (January-March 1979): 73-76.

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979.

Gose, Elliott B. The World of the Irish Wonder Tale: An Introduction to the Study of Fairy Tales. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

Hearn, Michael Patrick. "Discover, Explore, Enjoy," in Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. Introductory Essay by Michael Patrick Hearn. Essays by Trinkett Clark and H. Nichols B. Clark. Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart in Cooperation with the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1996, pp. 1-41.

Hearne, Betsy. Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Hearne, Betsy. "Booking the Brothers Grimm: Art, Adaptations, and Economics," in The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. ed. by James M. McGlathery and Others. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp.220-233.

Hearne, Betsy. "Disney Revisited, Or, Jiminy Criket, It's Musty Down Here!" Horn Book. Volume 73, No. 2 (March/April 1997): 137-146.

Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman's Life. New York: Ballantine, 1988.

Holliss, Richard and Brian Sibley. Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs & The Making of the Classic Film. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.

Huang, Mei. Transforming the Cinderella Dream: From Frances Burney to Charlotte Bronte. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Hyman, Trina Schart. "Cut It Down, and You Will Find Something at the Roots" in The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions. ed. by Donald Haase. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1993, pp. 293-300.

Image & Maker: An Annual Dedicated to the Consideration of Book Illustration. ed. by Harold Darling and Peter Neumeyer. La Jolla, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1984.

Jones, Steven Swann. The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination. New York: Twayne, 1995.

Jones, Steven Swann. "The Structure of Snow White," Fabula: Journal of Folktale Studies. Vol. 24 No. 1-2. (1983): 56-71.

Jones, Steven Swann. "The Pitfalls of Snow White Scholarship" Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 92, No. 363 (January-March 1979): 69-73.

Kamenetsky, Christa. The Brothers Grimm and Their Critics: Folktales and the Quest for Meaning. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1992.

Kerrigan, William. "Introduction," in Opening Texts: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of the Child. ed. by Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. ix-xix.

Kiefer, Barbara Z. The Potential of Picturebooks: From Visual Literacy to Aesthetic Understanding. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall, 1995.

Kolbenschlag, Madonna. Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye. San Francisco, Ca: HarperCollins, 1988.

Lane, Marcia. Picturing the Rose: A Way of Looking at Fairy Tales. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1993.

Langer, Suzanne. Problems of Art. New York: Scribners, 1957.

Levin, Judith. "Why Folklorists Should Study Housework," in Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore. ed. by Susan Tower Hollis, Linda Pershing, and M. Jane Young. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993, pp. 285-296.

Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook. ed. by Alan Dundes. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Lundell, Torborg. Fair Tale Mothers. New York: Lang, 1990.

Luthi, Max. Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1976.

MacDonald, Margaret Read. The Storyteller's Sourcebook: A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore Collections for Children. Detroit, MI: Neal-Schuman/Gale, 1982.

MacDonald, Ruth. "The Tale Retold: Feminist Fairy Tales," Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Vol. 7 (Summer, 1982): 18.

MacMath, Russ. "Recasting Cinderella: How Pictures Tell the Tale," Bookbird. Vol. 32 , No. 4 (Winter 1994): 29-34.

McGlathery, James M. Grimms' Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993.

Mellon, Constance A. "Folk Tales as Picture Books; Visual Literacy or Oral Tradition?" School Library Journal. Vol. 33, no. 10 (June/July 1987): 46-47.

Milne, A. A. "Introduction," in The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, n.d.

Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. Introductory Essay by Michael Patrick Hearn. Essays by Trinkett Clark and H. Nichols B. Clark. Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart in Cooperation with the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1996.

Neumann, Siegfried. "The Brothers Grimm As Collectors and Editors of German Folktales," in The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions. ed. by Donald Haase. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1993, pp.24-40.

Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology. ed. by Ann Fehn, Ingeborg Hoesterey, and Maria Tatar. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Nodelman, Perry. Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Nodelman, Perry. "How Picture Books Work," in Image & Maker: An Annual Dedicated to the Consideration of Book Illustration. ed. by Harold Darling and Peter Neumeyer. La Jolla, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1984, pp. 1-12.

Once Upon a Folktale: Capturing the Folktale Process with Children. ed. by Gloria T. Blatt. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

A Peculiar Gift: Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children. Selected and Introduced by Lance Salway. Harmondsworth, England: Kestral Books, 1976.

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. 2nd ed. rev. and ed. by Louis Wagner. Introduction by Alan Dundes. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1975. [first published 1928]

Propp, Vladimir. Theory and History of Folklore. Trans. by Ariadna Y. Martin and Richard P. Martin. ed. by Anatoly Liberman. Theory and History of Literature, Volume 5. Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions. ed. by Donald Haase. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1993.

Robinson, Robert D. "The Three Little Pigs: From Six Directions," in Aspects of Reading. ed. by Eldonna L. Evertts. Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1970.

Roelleke, Heinz. "New Results of Research on Grimms' Fairy Tales," in The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. ed. by James M. McGlathery and Others. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp.101-111.

Roscoe, William Caldwell. "Children's Fairy Tales, and George Cruikshank," in A Peculiar Gift: Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children. Selected and Introduced by Lance Salway. Harmondsworth, England: Kestral Books, 1976, pp. 119-126.

Rovenger, Judith. "The Better to Hear You With: Making Sense of Folktales," School Library Journal. Vol. 39, no. 3 (March 1993): 134-35.

Rowe, Karen E. "Feminism and Fairy Tales," in Don't Bet on the Prince. ed. by Jack Zipes. New York: Methuen, 1986, pp. 209-226.

Ruf, Theodar. Die Schoene aus dem Glassarg: Schneewittchens Maerchenhaftes und Wirkliches Leban. Wurzburg, Germany: Konighausen and Neumann, 1995. [Includes history and criticism of "Snow White."]

Ruskin, John. "Fairy Stories," in A Peculiar Gift: Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children. Selected and Introduced by Lance Salway. Harmondsworth, England: Kestral Books, 1976, pp. 127-132.

Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.

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Schweizer, Niklaus R. "Kahaunani: 'Snowwhite' in Hawaiian: A Study in Acculturation," in Easy Meets West: Homage to Edgar C. Knowlton, Jr. Ed. by Roger L. Hadlich and J.D. Ellsworth. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii, 1988, pp. 283-289.

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Smith, Verity. "Dwarfed by Snow White: Feminist Revisions of Fairy Tale Discourse in the Narrative of Maria Luisa Bombal and Dulce Maria Loynaz," in Feminist Readings on Spanish and Latin-American Literature. Ed. by L. P. Conde and S.M. Hart. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991, pp. 137-149.

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Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. New York: Meuthen/Routledge, 1987.

Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Zipes, Jack. Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England. New York: Methuen, 1986.

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Zipes, Jack. "On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand," in How Much Truth Do We Tell the Children? The Politics of Children's Literature. Ed. by Betty Bacon. Minneapolis, MN: Marxist Educational Press, 1988, pp. 59-73.

Zumwalt, Rosemary Levy. American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.