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Hans Christian Andersen
Father of the Modern Fairy Tale 
by Terri Windling



 

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 the book in paperback.

Ashliman, D. L.  A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy the book 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.
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Bettelheim, Bruno.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Bredsdorff, Elias. Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work, 1805-75. New York: Scribner, 1975.
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Briggs, Katharine. A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures. London: Allen Lane, 1976. [Published in U.S. as An Encyclopedia of Fairies. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.]
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Byatt, A. S. Possession: A Romance. New York: Random House, 1990.
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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.
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Cirlot, J. E. A Dictionary of Symbols, 2nd ed. Jack Sage, trans. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962. Reprinted by Dover in 2002.
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"Cockchafer." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on January 27, 2007.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer>

Cooper, J. C. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978.
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Davidson, H.E. "Helpers and Adversaries in Fairy Tales." A Companion to the Fairy Tale. Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri, editors. Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer, 2003.
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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 the book in paperback.

Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
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Ferguson, George Wells. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art: With Illustrations from Paintings from the Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Frank, Jeffrey and Diana Crone Frank.  The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
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Franz, Marie-Louise von. Individuation in Fairy Tales. Boston: Shambhala, 1977, 1990.
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"Historia Regum Brittaniae." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on January 27, 2007.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Regum_Britanniae>

Internet Movie Database. Accessed on September 28, 2006.
<http://www.imdb.org>

"Jenny Lind." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on September 28, 2006.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind>

Jones, Alison. Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore. Edinburgh; New York: Larousse, 1995.
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Knowles, Elizabeth. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Leach, Maria.  Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.
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"Locus Amoenus." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on January 27, 2007.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_amoenus>

MacDonald, Margaret Read.  Tom Thumb: The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series.  Phoenix: Oryx, 1993.
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Murphy, Bruce, ed.  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition.  New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition.  New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.

Norris, Pamela. Eve: A Biography. London: Picador, 1998. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
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Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.
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Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
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Robbins, Mary E. "The Truculent Toad in the Middle Ages." Animals in the Middle Ages. Nona C. Flores, editor. New York: Routledge, 2000.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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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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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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Wullschlager, Jackie. Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
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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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Tom Thumb (The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series)  by Margaret Read MacDonald

Hans Christian Andersen by Jackie Wullschlager

The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen : A New Translation from the Danish by Jeffrey Frank

by Marie-Louise Von Franz

A Companion to the Fairy Tale

Great Fairy Tale Tradition by Jack Zipes

New Tales for Old by Gail de Vos

Tales, Then and Now by Altman and  de Vos

Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

Fairy Tales by Jann Einfield

The Folktale by Stith Thompson

The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales edited by Maria Tatar

 
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