The University of Wisconsin Press
Folklore / Women's Studies / Psychology
Cinderella "I cannot imagine any student of
folklore without this book." 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
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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." "... masterly introductions by Dundes
to each of the essays... [Literary] critics can learn something
from the folklore method."
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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 
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