TY - CHAP
T1 - Fairy Tales
AU - Gibson, Mel
N1 - References
Bettelheim, B. (1976) The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. London: Thames and Hudson.
Warner, M. (1995) From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. New York: Vintage.
Warner, M. (2014) Once Upon a Time: A Short History of the Fairy Tale. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zipes, J. (2013) The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Commonly defined as children’s STORIES about magical beings, fairy tales, related to FOLKLORE and MYTH, have travelled across cultures over time. Regarding ADAPTATIONS created for children, Chris Duffy’s (2013) anthology comic is representative. Fairy tales may also engage adult READERS with their consideration of issues of SEXUALITY and morality, as exemplified by Bill Willingham’s Fables (2002–2015), which incorporates characters from a number of fairy tales. Marina Warner (2014) is a key theorist in relation to how these tales reflect changing social concerns, behaviours, and contexts through retelling. Warner (1995) also analyses who tells the tales and how, considering FILM alongside traditional oral storytelling. This is not the only approach to these tales, however. Bruno Bettelheim (1976), for instance, analysed them in terms of Freudian PSYCHOANALYSIS and was concerned with how they might help children understand problems such as separation anxiety and sibling rivalries. This work is seen as problematic but still represents an important way of thinking about fairy tales and, in particular, children’s responses to them. Another key approach is to look at the origins of these tales, as exemplified by Jack Zipes (2013) who did so via engagement with cognitive science and evolutionary theory, amongst other fields.
AB - Commonly defined as children’s STORIES about magical beings, fairy tales, related to FOLKLORE and MYTH, have travelled across cultures over time. Regarding ADAPTATIONS created for children, Chris Duffy’s (2013) anthology comic is representative. Fairy tales may also engage adult READERS with their consideration of issues of SEXUALITY and morality, as exemplified by Bill Willingham’s Fables (2002–2015), which incorporates characters from a number of fairy tales. Marina Warner (2014) is a key theorist in relation to how these tales reflect changing social concerns, behaviours, and contexts through retelling. Warner (1995) also analyses who tells the tales and how, considering FILM alongside traditional oral storytelling. This is not the only approach to these tales, however. Bruno Bettelheim (1976), for instance, analysed them in terms of Freudian PSYCHOANALYSIS and was concerned with how they might help children understand problems such as separation anxiety and sibling rivalries. This work is seen as problematic but still represents an important way of thinking about fairy tales and, in particular, children’s responses to them. Another key approach is to look at the origins of these tales, as exemplified by Jack Zipes (2013) who did so via engagement with cognitive science and evolutionary theory, amongst other fields.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-74974-3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-74974-3
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
SN - 9783030749736
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
SP - 104
BT - Key Terms in Comics Studies
A2 - La Cour, Erin
A2 - Grennan, Simon
A2 - Spanjers, Rik
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -