LibGuides: Fairy Tales: Recommended Sources

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Recommended E-Books

Folklore by Charlie T. McCormick (Editor); Kim Kennedy White (Editor)
ISBN: 9781598842418
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inquiry in folklore to define the identity of every culture in the world.
Literature and Its Times by Joyce Moss; George Wilson
ISBN: 9780787606060
Publication Date: 1997-09-26
Provides in-depth commentary on characters, themes, and the historical and social context of 300 most-studied literary works, including novels, plays, poems, speeches, and short stories, both international and American.
Icons of the American Comic Book by Randy Duncan (Editor); Matthew J. Smith (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313399237
Publication Date: 2013-01-29
This book explores how the heroes and villains of popular comic books--and the creators of these icons of our culture--reflect the American experience out of which they sprang, and how they have achieved relevance by adapting to, and perhaps influencing, the evolving American character.
Encyclopedia of Video Games by Mark J. P. Wolf (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313379369
Publication Date: 2012-08-16
This encyclopedia collects and organizes theoretical and historical content on the topic of video games, covering the people, systems, technologies, and theoretical concepts as well as the games themselves.
Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Heroes and Superheroes by Bart Beaty; Stephen Weiner
ISBN: 9781587658655
Publication Date: 2012-04-01
Provides in-depth insight into over 130 of the most popular and studied graphic novels.
Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: History, Theme and Technique by Bart H. Beaty (Editor); Stephen Weiner (Editor)
ISBN: 9781587659577
Publication Date: 2012-10-01
A one-volume set that contains over 70 essays covering themes and concepts of graphic novels.
Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents and Underground Classics by Bart H. Beaty (Editor); Stephen Weiner (Editor)
ISBN: 9781587659508
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
Offers 215 essays covering graphic novels and core comics series, focusing on the independents and underground genre that form today's canon for academic coursework and library collections.
Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
ISBN: 9780199532155
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Drawing on an 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, Warner forms a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.

Background Information

Get background information, an overview of your topic and facts about your topic from e-books such as encyclopedias. Below are databases to search for background information.

Bloom's Literary Criticism eBooks This link opens in a new window
Over 1,000 eBooks of literary criticism covering frequently studied writers and works.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
See especially FAIRY TALE: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION.
Very Short Introductions can change the way you think about the things that interest you, and are the perfect introduction to subjects you previously knew nothing about: from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Globalization to Literary Theory. Very Short Introductions online bringing together titles from this well-known and established print series, via a highly discoverable and fully cross-searchable platform.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales by Donald Haase
ISBN: 9780313334412
Publication Date: 2007-12-30
3 volumes. A broad, multicultural survey of folk and fairy tales from around the world. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries written by numerous expert contributors. Entries cover themes and motifs, individuals, characters and character types, national traditions, genres, and a range of other topics.

Recommended Web Sites

Sur La Lune
Each annotated tale includes the tale with annotations, its history, a list of similar tales across cultures (many full text), a bibliography, an illustration gallery, a book gallery and a list of modern interpretations.

Literary Databases

Bloom's Literary Criticism eBooks This link opens in a new window
Over 1,000 eBooks of literary criticism covering frequently studied writers and works.

Literary Reference Center Plus
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing.

Fairy Tales