Beauties and Beasts

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.

List 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

About the author

Betsy Hearne

Product details

• Authors: Hearne Betsy
• Assisted by: Betsy Hearne (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 13
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.1993
• EAN: 9780897747295
• ISBN: 978-0-89774-729-5
• Series: The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Folklore, myths & legends, Myth & legend told as fiction, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), The Arts: World Literature