Rapunzel | Bibliography

I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.





Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001. 
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover or paperback.

Ashliman, D. L.  A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Ashliman, D. L.  The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Fairy Tales). 
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html. 
Accessed on 10 December 1998.

Bernheimer, Kate.  Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.  New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Bettelheim, Bruno.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

Canepa, Nancy. From Court to Forest : Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto De Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Canepa, Nancy. Out of the Woods : The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1997.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic, 1999.
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Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. Growth Charts. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/
Chart accessed at this URL:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/growthcharts/
set1clinical/ cj41c022.pdf

Accessed on 3 November 2003.

Cirlot, J. E. Jack Sage, trans. A Dictionary of Symbols, 2nd ed. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.

Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Crane, Thomas. Italian Popular Tales. New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

de Vos, Gail and Anna E. Altmann. New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. 
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001. 
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Guiness World Records. Entry for Longest Hair.
URL: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/
Accessed on 3 November 2003.

Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton: Princeton University, 2001. 
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Hendrickson, Linnea. “The View From Rapunzel’s Tower.” Children's Literature in Education. Vol 31.4 (Dec2000): 209-223.

Heuscher, Julius E. A Psychiatric Study of Myths and Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning, and Usefulness. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1974. 2nd edition.

Internet Movie Database. 
URL: http://www.imdb.com
Accessed on 8 May 2003.

Lang, Andrew, ed. "Rapunzel." The Red Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1966. (Original published 1890.)
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Leach, Maria.  Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.

Luthi, Max. Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1976.

Matthews, Borg, trans. The Herder Symbol Dictionary. Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications, 1986.

Murphy, Bruce, ed.  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition.  New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition.  New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.

Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Philip, Neil. The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales. New York: DK Publishing, 1997.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Tatar, Maria M., ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
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Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
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Thompson, William Irwin. Imaginary Landscapes: Making Worlds of Myth and Science. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1970, 1996.
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Warner, Marina.  From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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WordNet: A Lexical Dictionary for the English Language. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ 
Accessed on 15 December 2003.

Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack.  Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.
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Zipes, Jack.  Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. New York: Methuen, 1983.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. 
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. When Dreams Come True. London: Routledge, 1998.
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