Reviews Marvels & Tales Editors
Marvels & Tales Volume 24 | Issue 2 Article 10 10-1-2010 Reviews Marvels & Tales Editors Recommended Citation Editors, Marvels & Tales. "Reviews." Marvels & Tales 24.2 (2010). Web. <http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol24/iss2/ 10>. 24496_10_341-366_r2nj.qxp 9/17/10 1:37 PM Page 341 REVIEWS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Folk and Fairy Tales, 4th ed. Edited by Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek. Buf- 11 falo, NY: Broadview Press, 2009. 411 pp. 12 Hallett and Karasek’s fourth edition of Folk and Fairy Tales, an anthology of 13 traditional tales and contemporary adaptations that spans contributions from 14 Giambattista Basile to Tanith Lee, is a well-rounded and critically framed col- 15 lection that is eminently suitable for classroom use. According to the publish- 16 ers, this new edition contains an additional four articles in the “Criticism” sec- 17 tion, an expanded discussion of illustrations, the “Juxtapositions” section, and 18 more cross-cultural variation in the choice of stories. 19 The book is divided into eleven sections: “Little Red Riding Hood,” 20 “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella,” “Growing Up (Is Hard to Do),” “The En- 21 chanted Bride(groom),” “Brain over Brawn (The Trickster),” “Villains,” “A Less 22 Than Perfect World,” “Juxtapositions,” “Illustrations,” and “Criticism.” Clearly 23 the organization of the tale selections is somewhat loose and subjective, and 24 many tales could easily be moved elsewhere, but the editors’ intention is to 25 demonstrate how a single story or theme has been approached by different 26 writers to serve different purposes. Each section begins with a few pages of 27 commentary and critical remarks to frame readers’ reactions.
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