Fairy Tales: A Lamar Critical Edition

Created by Emily Brown, Molli Eckart, Patrick Lucas, Jordyn Quirit, Kathryn Riley, and Allie Valentine.

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 A Closer Look At Traditional Fairy Tales and Modern Adaptations: A Lamar University Critical Edition
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  • Context Sections
    • Historical Context of Romanticism
    • Context Regarding the Evolution of Fairy Tales Throughout History
    • Fairytales and Oral Tradition
    • Folktale vs. Fairy Tale
    • Charles Perrault: Man of Many Words
    • Historical and Biographical Context Related to the Brothers Grimm
  • Critical Summaries
    • "The Old Wives' Tale" by Marina Warner
    • "The Sleeping Beauty" by Bruno Bettleheim
    • “The Fairy-Tale Hero: The Image of Man in the Fairy Tale” by Maria Tatar
    • "The Brothers Grimm as Collectors and Editors of German Folktales" By Siegfried Neumann
    • "Breaking the Disney Spell" by Jack Zipes
    • "Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales" by Maria Tatar
  • Critical Analyses
    • Snow White: The Changing of Female Agency in American Film Adaptations
    • Romanticizing the First Encounter with the Prince in Three Fairy Tales
    • The Evolution of Fairy Tales and How They Will Last
    • Why is the World So Cold, Mother?
    • Maleficent: One Step for Villains, One Giant Leap for Fairy Tale Adapations
    • Christ vs. Eve: A Critical Analysis of Biblical Allusions Within "Little Snow-White" by The Brothers Grimm

Welcome, Readers.

Hello, and welcome to the website for this Lamar Critical Edition. Through this website, we, the writers and contributors, aim to give insight into information that will help you better comprehend and further explore the ideas expressed in fairy tales. Whether it be fairy tales collected by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm or modern adaptations by Walt Disney, we hope that the information compiled within this website aids you on your quest to understand fairy tales more thoroughly.

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