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Strongly recommended:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
The Children's Literature Web Guide
Run from the University of Calgary - one of the best sites
Links into:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
which is the Folklore, Myth and Legend section,
with a
very large number of links
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http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Tales grouped by type
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The
Guttenberg Project
http://www.thalasson.com/gtn/
A huge collection of non-copyright texts, the Gutenberg
project.
This is a really comprehensive site of texts,
but you do have to search
quite hard to get
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
A site with links to all on-line texts.
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Strongly recommended:
www.northvegr.org
What was (and remains) an amazing site has been somewhat
compromised by pseudo pagan religious connotations. However, here you can find almost
every text you could possibly want, in English translation, and sometimes
also in the original, of Nordic, Germanic, and Northern Europe myth and
Icelandic saga. For the full scope of this site, go take a look.
Be warned, it has a very pretty separate navigation shield
which is really annoying if you use a two-screen system, as it stops access
to the second screen.
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Heidi Anne Heiner's Fairy Tale
pages
http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/index.htm
The site includes a discussion section, which you can find under Part 3,
Appendix.
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Greek Mythology Link
A Greek myth site, a little confusing at first, but very comprehensive
once you get used to it.
http://www.hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/
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Feminism
and folk tales:
A discussion thread from 1994 that gives some useful information for further
exploration
(note there are two pages - click 'next page' when you have got to the bottom of
the first):
http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/fairytale_feminist.html#TopOfPage
I quite like this little essay, and it has some suggestions for adult
fairy-tales:
http://www.womenwriters.net/editorials/rakow.html
See also the Snow White link below.
Some fairy-tale sites
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Thomas
Keightley's Fairy Mythology
complete on-line text
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University of Arizona |
And She Lived
Happily Ever After: Women in Fairy Tales. A Women's Studies course site,
with the following description: "Fairy tales have been passed on throughout
generations. Aside from their entertainment value, fairy tales are a vehicle
for outdated moral messages. Their survival through oral tradition is
testament to their power and influence. The following essays examine a cross
section of fairy tales and their effects on the moral development of women."
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William Barker |
Fairy Tales:
A Select Reading List of Secondary Material
A useful bibliography by William Barker of the Memorial University of
Newfoundland, that includes feminist readings
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A useful list
for further reading can be found here (Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and
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Marvels
and Tales, Vol.14, No.1. 2000 is an issue devoted to "Fairy Tale
Liberation--Thirty Years Later".
For contents see
http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/MarvelsHome/v14n1.html,
but you will have to go to the Library to read the articles.
I quite like
this little essay, and it has some suggestions for adult fairy-tales:
http://www.womenwriters.net/editorials/rakow.html
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Aesop's fables
http://www.pacificnet.net/%7Ejohnr/aesop/
http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/
and
http://hca.gilead.org.il/
127 of the tales can be found at
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/aesophca.html
A
collection from tales from The Arabian Nights
http://www.arabiannights.org/main.html
a link to the
story of Ariadne and Theseus. This Greek myth, with Ariadne giving Theseus
a thread so he can get back out of the Labyrinth, is echoed in The Princess
and the Goblin
http://www.hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/Ariadne.html
 Tales
from Il Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile
http://surlalune.tripod.com/pentamerone/index.htm
and
http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/pentamerone.htm
for modern versions of the story,
try the SurLaLune Fairy Tales site. Click
here to go straight to the relevant page (opens in new window).
A Cinderella bibliography
http://docserver.ub.rug.nl/camelot/cinder/cin15.htm
George MacDonald sites currently pose a problem, as a search will throw up major
sites that either don't work, or in fact exist at a different location. The
links below should provide enough to get you going.
Versions
of the classic tale
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/jack/jackhome.html
Covers of versions
of the classic tale:
http:/sun250.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de/2006-0156/start.htm
http:/sun250.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de/2006-0169/start.htm
Versions
of the classic tale
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/lrrh/lrrhhome.htm
The most comprehensive C.S.Lewis
site is the Into the Wardrobe site at:
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/main.shtml
A
comparison of the 1812 and 1857 versions of the Grimm Hansel and Gretel story
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm015a.html
bibliography: http://my.linkbaton.com/bibliography/sendak/maurice/
general site: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sendak.htm
Encarta entry at: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=02C09000
English translation of the complete text
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Nibelungenlied/
A vast site by Kay E. Vandergrift, of the State University
of New Jersey, that, if you can find your way beyond the specific Snow White
sections, includes much interesting material on educating children, including
many feminist perspectives.
The Snow White sections includes 36 variants, commentary and criticism, a
bibliography, and articles on the teaching of the fairy tale.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snowwhite.html
There are a large number of C.S.
Lewis sites, covering all aspects of his life, from the Narnia Chronicles to his
place as a Christian thinker.
The best is at
general site: http://cslewis.drzeus.net/main.shtml
which includes
bibliographies, scholarly essays, and links.
But also check out the following:
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