The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2 ed.)
Edited by:
Jack Zipes
‘thoroughly researched, impartial, scholarly, wonderfully illustrated and enormous fun’ –The Independent on Sunday
Over 1,000 entries
This Companion is an authoritative reference source for the complex and captivating genre of the fairy tale. It provides full coverage of stories and characters, from Ali Baba, Aladdin, and Cinderella, to Hansel and Gretel, the Moomins, and Tom Thumb, along with the writers who wrote and reworked them, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, A. S. Byatt, and Gabriel García Márquez, and the artists who illustrated them, including Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, and Maurice Sendak. The Companion also examines related topics such as Disney, film, opera, science fiction, music, even advertising. Special survey articles explore the development of the fairy-tale tradition in individual countries, focusing particularly on the European and North American traditions.
Written by a team of over 70 specialist contributors from around the world, this is an essential companion for anyone interested in literature, film, or art, or for anyone who values the traditions of storytelling.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- 2015
- Print ISBN-13:
- 9780199689828
- Published online:
- 2015
- Current Online Version:
- 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acref/9780199689828.001.0001
- eISBN:
- 9780191769504
