Beauties and Beasts

Betsy Hearne (Author)
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Beauties and Beasts

Betsy Hearne (Author)
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This volume offers 28 versions of the fable of "Beauty and the Beast", with minimal adaptations from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and America. Afterwards, the author discusses Disney's film version of this familiar theme of a lonely beast transformed by the magic of human love.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Rescued Beasts
Beauty and the Beast (French)
The Enchanted Tsarevitch (Russian)
The Princess and the Pig (Turkish)
A Bunch of Laurel Blooms for a Present (Appalachian)
The Small-Tooth Dog (English)
The Fairy Serpent (Chinese)
Monkey Son-in-Law (Japanese)
The Lizard Husband (Indonesian)
Questing Beauties
Cupid and Psyche (Greco-Roman)
The Serpent and the Grape-Grower's Daughter (French)
The Singing, Soaring Lark (German)
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Norwegian)
Whitebear Whittington (Appalachian)
The Three Daughters of King O'Hara (Irish)
The Black Bull of Norroway (Scottish)
Bull-of-all-the-Land (Jamaican)
Prince White Hog (Missouri French)
The Enchanted Prince (Spanish American)
The Story of Five Heads (African)
The Ten Serpents (Israeli)
Egle, Queen of Serpents (Lithuanian)
Homely Women and Homemade Men
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (English)
The Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heughs (Scottish)
Kemp Owyne (Scottish)
Pinto Smalto (Italian)
The Dough Prince (West Virginian)
Old Man Coyote, the Young Man and Two Otter Sisters (Native American)
Essays, Activities, and Resources
In the Dark with Disney
Activities
Some Picture Book Versions of Beauty and the Beast
Sources
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published 13 Apr 1993
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9780313069383
Imprint Greenwood
Series The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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