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Russian 0090: Russian Fairy Tales. Autumn 2002 (03-1).

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Critical Theories and Methods

Psychoanalysis

Freud: Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. New York: Vintage. 1989 (first published 1975).

• 78-83, 90-96. (Two sibling tales.)
• 102-111. (Youngest child tales.)
• 199-215. (Snow White tales.)
• 66-73. (Stepmother tales.)
• 225-236. (Sleeping Beauty tales.)
• 282-291, 295-310. (Animal groom tales.)

Jung: von Franz, Marie-Louise. Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales. Boston: Shambhala. 1995 (first published 1974).

• "Taboos." Chapter 8. 190-214.

Self Theory: Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic Books. 1999.

• "Envy: If the Slipper Fits …." Chapter 5. 85-105.
• "Objects that Love." Chapter 6. 107-127.

Structuralism/Formalism: Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975 first published 1928).

• "The Method and Material." Chapter 2 (excerpt). 19-24.
• "List of Abbreviations." Appendix 4 (excerpt). 149-155.

Feminism

• Bottigheimer, Ruth B. "Silenced Women in the Grimms' Tales: The 'Fit' Between Fairy Tales and Their Historical Context." Ruth Bottigheimer, ed. Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. 1986. 115-31.
• Lieberman, Marcia K. "'Some Day My Prince Will Come': Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale." Chapter 17. Jack Zipes. Don't Bet on the Prince. Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England. New York: Routledge, 1989. 185-200.

Marxism

• Zipes, Jack. "Breaking the Disney Spell." Chapter 3. Jack Zipes. Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. 1994. 72-95.
• Zipes, Jack. "Inverting and Subverting the World with Hope." Chapter 5 (excerpt). Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion. New York: Routledge. 1991 (first published 1983). 121-131.

Miscellaneous Critical Approaches

• Bogatyrev, Pet[e]r and Roman Jakobson. "Folklore as a Special Form of Creativity." Peter Steiner, ed. The Prague School: Selected Writings, 1929-1946. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1982. 32-46.
• Warner, Marina. "Wicked Stepmothers." Chapter 14. From the Beast to the Blonde. NY: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. 218-240.

Literature and Literary Fairy Tales

Pre-Nineteenth-Century Literature

• "Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber." (Bylina). An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. James Bailey and Tatyana Ivanova, translation and commentary. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. 1998. 28-36
• "Peter and Fevronia of Murom." Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales. Edited by Serge Zenkovsky. New York: Meridian. 1963, 1974. 291-300.
• "Sadko." Arthur Ransome. Old Peter's Russian Tales. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1971. 32-42.

Nineteenth-Century Literature

• Gogol', Nikolaj. "Viy." (from Mirgorod.) 338-374.

Twentieth-Century Literature

• Shukshin, Vasily. "Before the Cocks Crow Thrice." Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures, and Other Stories . Natasha Ward and David Iliffe, tr. London: Marion Boyars. 1985. 108-163.
• Tolstaja, Tatjana. "Date with a Bird." On the Golden Porch. Antonina Bouis, tr. New York: Knopf. 1989. 116-130.
• Tolstaja, Tatjana. "The Poet and the Muse." Sleepwalker in a Fog. Jamey Gambrell, tr. New York: Knopf. 1992. 117-131.
• Sadur, Nina. "The Cute Little Redhead." Half a Revolution. Masha Gessen, tr. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press. 1995. 235-241.
• Sadur, Nina. "The Witch's Tears." Half a Revolution. Masha Gessen, tr. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press. 1995. 264-269.