For Further Reading

BIOGRAPHIES

Hettinga, Donald R. The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy. New York: Clarion Books, 2001. For young people; readable and well done, with chronology and illustrations.
Michaelis-Jena, Ruth. The Brothers Grimm. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. Somewhat uncritical but readable illustrated biography with details about the Grimm family.

BIO-CRITICISM

Zipes, Jack. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Routledge, 1988. Good overview of the brothers’ life and work.

CRITICISM

Antonsen, Elmer H., ed. The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 1990. Articles on their philological and linguistic work.
Bettelheim, Bruno. 1976. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. The classic psychoanalytic work on fairy tales.
Bottigheimer, Ruth B. Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987. Useful criticism on social issues, including presentation of female and Jewish characters.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New York: Pan theon, 1949. Classic Jungian interpretation of the Grimms’ tales and other works of legend and fantasy.
Ellis, John M. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Skep tical analysis of the Grimms’ use of sources.
Kamenetsky, Christa. The Brothers Grimm and Their Critics: Folktales and the Quest for Meaning. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992. Rigorous, readable, and comprehensive account of the Grimms, the tales, and the criticism.
McGlathery, James M., ed. The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. Ur bana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Articles on current controversies by distinguished critics and scholars.
———. Grimms’ Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993. Useful summaries of critical theories and commentary on famous tales.
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. The Classic Fairy Tales. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Earliest English texts and history of some famous tales, with beautiful illustrations.
Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Originally published in Russian, 1928. Translated by Laurence Scott. Second revised edition. Edited by Louis A Wagner. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. Important formalist and structuralist classification of narrative patterns.
Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. Interesting study of backgrounds and interpretations of tales focusing on sex, violence, monsters, and other “hard facts.”
Thompson, Stith. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958. Scholarly study of motifs in six volumes.
Tolkien, J. R. R. “On Fairy-Stories.” In The Tolkien Reader. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Argument on the significance of fairy tales by a creator of fantasy.
Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Chatto and Windus, 1994. Interesting study focusing on the treatment and role of the feminine in fairy tales.
Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. New York: Routledge, 1991. Essays on fairy tales by the Grimms and others as part of the discourse on socialization of children.
———. Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. Consideration of the origins of tales, their ideological function in culture, and some contemporary American versions.