Book
The uses of enchantment : the meaning and importance of fairy tales
Item details
- ISBN: 0394497716
- ISBN: 9780394497716
- ISBN: 0394722655
- ISBN: 9780394722658
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Physical Description:
print
regular print
vi, 328, xi pages ; 24 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
- Distributor: New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The struggle for meaning -- Part One: A pocketful of magic -- Life divined from the inside -- "The fisherman and the Jinny": fairy tale compared to fable -- Fairy tale versus myth: optimism versus pessimism -- "The three little pigs": Pleasure principle versus reality principle -- The child's need for magic -- Vicarious satisfaction versus conscious recognition -- The importance of externalization: fantasy figures and events -- Transformations: The fantasy of the wicked stepmother -- Bringing order into chaos -- "The queen bee": achieving integration -- "Brother and sister": unifying our dual nature -- "Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the porter ": fancy versus reality -- The frame story of "Thousand and One Nights" -- Tales of two brothers -- "The three languages": building integration -- "The three feathers": the youngest child as simpleton -- Oedipal conflicts and resolutions: the knight in shining armor and the damsel in distress -- Fear of fantasy: Why were fairy tales outlawed? -- Transcending infancy with the help of fantasy -- "The goose girl": achieving autonomy -- Fantasy, recovery, escape, and consolation -- On the telling of fairy stories -- Part Two: In fairy land -- "Hansel and Gretel" -- "Little Red Riding Hood" -- "Jack and the Beanstalk" -- The jealous queen in "Snow White" and the myth of Oedipus -- "Snow White" -- "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" -- "The Sleeping Beauty" -- "Cinderella" -- The animal-groom cycle of fairy tales. |
| Awards Note: | National Book Award, 1977: Contemporary Thought |
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| Genre: | Folklore. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Fairy tales. Folklore. |
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| Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
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