From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and
goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and
mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell
over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for
centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural
borders, and been passed on from generation to generation,
ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of
literature have greater power to enchant us and rekindle our
imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do
they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and
communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range
of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their
history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration
draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and
fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Marina Warner has loved
fairy tales over a long writing life, 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
hoard 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. Her book makes a persuasive case
for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and
culture.
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