Russian Fairy Tales (RUSS 0090): Bibliography

Folklore (General)

• 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. 1982. 32–46. Translation by Manfred Jacobson of: “Die Folklore als eine besondere Form des Schaffens.” Donum natalicum Schrijnen. Nijmegen. 1929. 900–13. Revised version in: Roman Jakobson. Selected Writings 4. The Hague: Mouton. 1966. 1–15.
• Bogatyrev, Petr and Roman Jakobson. “On the Boundary between Studies of Folklore and Literature.” L. Matejka and K. Pomorska, edd., Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views. Cambridge, MA. 1976. 91–93. Translation by H. Eagle of: “K problematike razmezhivaniia folkloristiki i literaturovedeniia.” Lud slowianski 2. 1934. 229–33.
• Campbell, Joseph. The hero with a thousand faces.[Bollingen Series 17.] New York: Pantheon. 1949.
• Eliade, Mircea. The Myth of the Eternal Return. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. Revised and enlarged. [Bollingen Series 46.] New York: Pantheon. 1971. [First ed. 1954.]
• Lord, Albert Bates. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. 1960. Repr: New York: Atheneum. 1965.
• Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folk Tale. 2nd ed., rev. and ed. with pref. by Louis A. Wagner. Introd. by Alan Dundes. Austin: University of Texas. 1968. (First Engl. ed. 1958. Translated from Morfologiia skazki. Leningrad: Academia. 1928.)
• Thompson, Stith. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature; a Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends. Rev. and enl. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1966. (First ed. 1932–36.)

Fairy Tales (General)

• Bottigheimer, Ruth B. Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania. 1986.
• Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales as Myth. Myth as Fairy Tale. The Thomas D. Clark Lectures: 1993. Lexington: University of Kentucky. 1994.

Feminism and Fairy Tales

• Rowe, Karen E. “Feminism and Fairy Tales.” Women’s Studies 6. 1979. 237–57.
• Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde. On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Chatto & Windus. 1997. Repr.: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1995.

See also the Selected Bibliography of Materials on Russian Folklore prepared by SEEFA, the Slavic and East European Folklore Association.