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Folk and Fairy Tales Library Guide: Resources on Themes and Interpretations

Themes and Motifs

Children and Fairy Tales

Indexes

Index to Fairy Tales, 1949-1972: Including Folklore, Legends & Myths in Collections by Norma Olin Ireland
Index to Fairy Tales, 1973-1977: 4th Supplement by Norma Olin Ireland
Index to Fairy Tales, 1978-1986: 5th Supplement by Norma Olin Ireland and Joseph W. Sprug
Index to Fairy Tales, 1987-1992 by Joseph W. Sprug
Storyteller's Sourcebook by Margaret Read MacDonald (Editor)
ISBN: 0810304716
Publication Date: 1982-03-01
Storyteller's Sourcebook, 1983-1999 by Margaret Read MacDonald and Brian W. Sturm
ISBN: 0810354853
Publication Date: 2001-02-07

Interpretations

Fairy Tales and Society by Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Editor)
ISBN: 0812280210
Publication Date: 1987
The Ordinary and the Fabulous: an Introduction to Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales by Elizabeth Cook
An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz
ISBN: 9780882141015
Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Picturing the Rose by Marcia Lane
ISBN: 082420848X
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Once upon a Time by Max Luthi
ISBN: 0253202035
Publication Date: 1976-09-22
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
ISBN: 0393972771
Publication Date: 1998-11-17
From the Beast to the Blonde: on Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner
Breaking the Magic Spell by Jack D. Zipes
ISBN: 0813190304
Publication Date: 2002-07-05
The Meaning of Folklore by Alan Dundes; Simon J. Bronner (Editor)
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes
Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook by D. L. Ashliman
The Fairytale and Plot Structure by Terence Patrick Murphy
Why Fairy Tales Stick by Jack Zipes

Feminism and Fairy Tales

Twice upon a time : women writers and the history of the fairy tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Forbidden Journeys by Nina Auerbach (Editor); U. C. Knoepflmacher (Editor)
ISBN: 0226032035
Publication Date: 1992-06-08
Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity by U.C. Knoepflmacher
Fairy Tales and the Female Imagination by Jennifer Waelti-Walters
The Maid of the North by Ethel J. Phelps
ISBN: 9780030623745
Publication Date: 1982-09-01
Feminine in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth

Anthologies

Texts of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are available here.

Bibliography