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The uses of enchantment : the meaning and importance of fairy tales
Record details
- ISBN: 0394497716 :
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Physical Description:
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vi, 328, xi p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1976 ; Random House [distributor].
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-328) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : the struggle for meaning -- Life divined from the inside -- "The fisherman and the Jinny" : fairy tale compared to fable -- Fairy tale versus myth : optimism versus pessimism -- "The three little pigs" : pleasure principle versus reality principle -- The child's need for magic -- Vicarious satisfaction versus conscious recognition -- The importance of externalization : fantasy figures and events -- Transformations : the fantasy of the wicked stepmother -- Bringing order into chaos -- "The queen bee" : achieving integration -- "Brother and sister" : unifying our dual nature -- "Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the porter: : fancy versus reality -- The frame story of thousand and one nights -- Tales of two brothers -- "The three languages" : building integration -- "The three feathers" : the youngest child as simpleton -- Oedipal conflicts and resolutions : the knight in shining armor and the damsel in distress -- Fear of fantasy : why were fairy tales outlawed? -- Transcending infancy with the help of fantasy -- "The goose girl" : achieving autonomy -- Fantasy, recovery, escape, and consolation -- On the telling of fairy stories -- "Hansel and Gretel" -- "Little Red Riding Hood" -- "Jack and the Beanstalk" -- The jealous queen in "Snow White" and the myth of Oedipus -- "Snow White" -- "Goldilocks and the three bears" -- "The sleeping beauty" -- "Cinderella" -- The animal-groom cycle of fairy tales. |
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| Subject: | Folk-lore and children Fairy tales -- History and criticism Folklore and children Psychoanalysis |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Castlegar Campus Library | GR 550 B47 1977 (Text)
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B000145466 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
