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Cinderella
A Casebook
Edited by Alan Dundes

"I cannot imagine any student of folklore without this book."
—Jack Zipes, University of Florida

Covering a period of more than one hundred years of work by renowned folklorists, these enlightening essays explore the timeless tale of Cinderella. In addition to the most famous versions of the story (Basile's Pentamerone, Perrault's Cendrillon, and the Grimm's Aschenputtel), this casebook includes articles on other versions of the tale from Russian, English, Chinese, Greek and French folklore. The volume concludes with several interpretive essays, including a psychoanalytic view from Dundes and a critique of the popularization of Cinderella in America. Folklorists and those interested in children's and women's literature will value this Wisconsin edition.

"Folklorists, scholars of children's literature, and feminists should appreciate particularly the wide scope of this collection... now in paperback with an updated Bibliographical Addendum.... Most helpful are the two-page introductions to each variant and to each essay which include a brief overview of the historical times as well as suggested additional sources for more discussion."—Danny Rochman, Folklore Forum

"A milestone, a near complete source of primary and secondary materials.... The selected analytical writing include definitive classic and new discoveries, covering the whole range of methodological modes and theoretical perspectives from early forms and typology to myth-ritual, social-historical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical readings. The annotated bibliography is most helpful, illuminating, and comprehensive, encompassing publications in other Western languages and works by Asianists."—Chieko Mulhern, Asian Folklore Studies

"... the scope of this collection is striking.... It certainly belongs in all undergraduate libraries, especially where folklore courses and women's studies are offered." —American Anthropology

Alan Dundes (1934–2005) was professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, and published ten books with the University of Wisconsin Press, including Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist; The Vampire: A Casebook; The Blood Libel Legend; and The Cockfight: A Casebook. He was also the editor of Recollecting Freud by Isidor Sadger.

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December 1988
LC: 88-040186 GR
328 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

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"One can imagine several dimensions on which psychoanalysts might find such a collection interesting: as examples of applied psychoanalysis, in relation to philosophical and cultural examination of imaginative material, in relation to child development, and in the correlations between folktales of a particular culture and individual histories."
—Kerry Kelly Novick, Psychoanalytic Quarterly

"... masterly introductions by Dundes to each of the essays... [Literary] critics can learn something from the folklore method."
Times Literary Supplement

 

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