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(Recommended Reading & Reference List – Updated July 24th, 2015) Main contributors: Jo Henwood, Jack Zipes, Sue Clancy, Gypsy Thornton, Louisa John-Krol Fairy Tale Study & Essays, Academic Text References, Discussions, General Reference Recommended: ♦ de Vos, Gail and Anna E. Altmann. New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Ch 6 pp 205-232 ♦ Getty, Laura J., “Maidens and Guardians: Interpreting the "Rapunzel" Tale” Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1997 ♦ John-Krol, Louisa http://victorianfairytalering.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/fairy- post-3-conference-review.html ♦ Lauer, Bernhard ed. Rapunzel: Traditionen eines euopäischen Märchenstoffes in Dichtung und Kunst. Kassel (1993) [Recommended by Jack Zipes for a comprehensive study of “Rapunzel”] ♦ Sur la Lune Rapunzel http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/ ♦ Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Ch 7 pp 105-114 ♦ Tolovaj PublishinG House http://tolovajwordsmith.hubpages.com/hub/the- rapunzel ♦ Wikipedia overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel ♦ WindlinG, Terri “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair “ http://www.endicott- studio.com/articleslist/rapunzel-rapunzel-let-down-your-hair-by-terri- windling.html 1 Further Reading & Study: ♦ ABCs Scary Fairy Stories – Rapunzel podcast: http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2014/03/20/3968071.htm ♦ Ashliman, Guide to the Folktales in the English Language Rapunzel: a comparison of the versions of 1812 and 1857 by D. L. Ashliman [Aarne-Thompson-Uther (and Ashliman) Type 310 “Maiden in the Tower”. ♦ Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1975. ♦ Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic, 1999. pp 156-160 ♦ Gibson, Sarah The (Australian) Re-enchantment project also talks about Rapunzel (on the dVd) ♦ Gould, Joan Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman’s Life 2006 Random House ♦ Lauer, Bernhard, ed. Rapunzel: Traditionen eines euopäischen Märchenstoffes in Dichtung und Kunst. Kassel (1993). ♦ Re-enchantment project (Australian) also talks about Rapunzel (on the dVd) ♦ Sawyer, Sarah http://www.sarahsawyer.com/2011/02/origins-of-rapunzel-part- one-of-four/ ♦ Tropes: Rapunzel http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Rapunzel http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/Rapunzel ♦ Warner, Marina CH 21 “The language of hair” pp 353-369 in From the Beast to the Blonde, 1994 Vintage ♦ Warner, Marina “After Rapunzel” Marvels and Tales 2010 24.2 (2010). http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?context=marvels&article=1 007 ♦ Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. “The Power of Love” pp 474-491. FORE RUNNERS OF RAPUNZEL ♦ Basile, Giambattista "Petrosinella" Il Pentamerone, day 2, tale 1. Il Pentamerone was first published in five installments between 1634 and 1636. ♦ BüschinG, Johann Gustav "das Mährchen von der Padde," in Volks-Sagen, Mährchen und Legenden (Leipzig: Carl Heinrich Reclam, 1812), no. 60, pp. 286-95. ♦ d’Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine “The White Cat” http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/whitecat.html ♦ de la Force, Charlotte-Rose (ca. 1646-1724"Persinette" Link to "Persinette," as retold by Terri Windling. ♦ Ferdowsi “Zal and Rudabeh” in Shahnemah ("The Book of Kings") http://classics.mit.edu/Ferdowsi/kings.4.zalrudabeh.html ♦ Kiz Kulesi tower legend (Turkey) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden%27s_Tower ♦ Saint Barbara http://www.folkstory.com/articles/stbabs.html ♦ Schultz, Friedrich (1762-98) in Kleine Romane, v. 5 (Leipzig, 1790), pp. 269-88. The Grimms' immediate source. 2 VARIANTS OF RAPUNZEL ATU TYPE 310 – The Maiden in the Tower: ♦ Ashliman, DL Guide to the Folktales in the English Language Rapunzel: a comparison of the versions of 1812 and 1857 by D. L. Ashliman ♦ Busk, Rachel "Filagranata" (1874) ♦ Crane, Thomas Frederick “Italian Popular Tales” (2003) This collection has a number of tales that relate to hair, tresses used as ladders. ♦ Gonzenbach, Laura "Beautiful Angiola" (1868) ♦ Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm "Rapunzel" (1812) ♦ Grimm, , Jacob and Wilhelm "Rapunzel" (1857) ♦ Heiner, Heidi Anne Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World: Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends and Other Tales About Maidens in Towers (Surlalune Fairy Tale) ♦ Imbriani, Vittorio "La Prezzemolina" (1871) ♦ LanG, Andrew "Prunella" (1890) ♦ Pitrè, Giuseppe "The Old Woman of the Garden" (1875) ♦ Sébillot, Paul "Parsilette" (1891) ♦ Tentelina and the Wolves, “....a brilliant Macedonian-Australian story of ATU 310 ('Rapunzel') + ATU 313 ('The Magic Flight'). The Australian version was recorded by Australian folklorist Gwenda davey from Mrs Anna and Rita Vasileva in Melbourne in 1976. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34996661?selectedversion=NBd9219280 (call numbers: 679993; Oral TRC 2632/8-9). Also 101 Macedonian Folk Tales by danica Cvetanovska and Maja Miškovska (Bigoss, Skopje, 2003 p 191ff. http://books.google.com.au/books/about/101_Macedonian_Folk_Tales.html?id=HSzaA AAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y ) ♦ Webster, Wentworth "The Fairy-Queen Godmother" (1877) ♦ Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. “The Power of Love” pp 474-491. ♦ Zipes, Jack, ed. The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang (Hackett, 2013), “The Power of Love” ATU 310 – The Maiden in the Tower pp 50-83 v Other Folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther Type 310 http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0310.html MODERN RETELLINGS (Not comprehensive. Emphasis on Australian authors or rec. retellinGs) ♦ Calvino, Italo “The Garden Witch” (1980) This is an interesting mix of Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel ♦ Carter, Angela “Parsley Girl” (2005) ♦ DonoGhue, Emma “Tale of the Hair” (pp 83-102 in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins) ♦ Forsyth, Kate (Australian author) Bitter Greens ♦ Forsyth, Kate (Australian author) The Wildkin’s Curse ♦ Dokey, Cameron Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel (YA) 3 ♦ Garner, James Finn 'Rapunzel' in “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories” ♦ Geras, Adele The Tower Room (YA) ♦ Geras, Adele (poetry online only) White Tower http://www.kateforsyth.com.au/kates-blog/a-rapunzel-poem-by-adele-geras ♦ Grey, Nicholas Stuart The Stone Cage (Children) ♦ Hale, Shannon and Dean Hale Rapunzel’s Revenge (YA) ♦ Kloester, Jennifer (Australian author) The Rapunzel Dilemma (YA) ♦ Maitland, Sara “From the Forest” (essays)Rapunzel (short story pp 217-223) ♦ Masson, Sophie (Australian author) The Crystal Heart (YA) ♦ Meyer, Marissa Cress (YA sci-fi series The Lunar Chronicles) ♦ Napoli, Donna Jo Zel ♦ Price, Fiona (Australian author) Let Down Your Hair ♦ Sexton, Anne (poetry 1971, 2001) Rapunzel ♦ Stanley, Diane (retold/illustrated by) Petrosinella: A Neapolitan Rapunzel ♦ TurGeon, Carolyn The Fairest of Them All ♦ Wood, Danielle (Australian author) “lettuce” pp 15-69 in Mothers Grimm ♦ See also Melisande by E. Nesbit, an amusing pastiche inspired by Rapunzel. http://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/Nesbit_Melisande.pdf AUSTRALIAN STORYTELLING, FOLKLORE, LEGENDS ♦ Tentelina and the Wolves, “....a brilliant Macedonian-Australian story of ATU 310 ('Rapunzel') + ATU 313 ('The Magic Flight'). The Australian version was recorded by Australian folklorist Gwenda Davey from Mrs Anna and Rita Vasileva in Melbourne in 1976. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34996661?selectedversion=NBd9219280 (call numbers: 679993; Oral TRC 2632/8-9). Also 101 Macedonian Folk Tales by danica Cvetanovska and Maja Miškovska (Bigoss, Skopje, 2003 p 191ff. http://books.google.com.au/books/about/101_Macedonian_Folk_Tales.html?id=HSzaA AAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y ) AUSTRALIAN POETRY ♦ Australian Poetry Library – archive list for Rapunzel (with text links) http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/search?q=rapunzel ♦ Cottier, P. S. “Rapunzel’s Lesson” http://pscottier.com/2012/10/01/tuesday-poem- rapunzels-hair-and-trans-tasman-co-operation/ ♦ Drapht (Aussie rapper), song “Rapunzel” http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drapht/rapunzel.html , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DJnvFBZ7pc ♦ Forsyth, Kate “In the Tower” http://www.kateforsyth.com.au/kates-blog/a-rapunzel- poem-by-kate-forsyth ♦ Forsyth, Kate Rapunzel http://www.kateforsyth.com.au/kates-blog/a-rapunzel-poem- by-kate-forsyth ♦ Hewitt, Dorothy Rapunzel in Suburbia Poem “Grave Fairytale” http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hewett-dorothy/grave-fairytale-0379051 4 AUSTRALIAN CONNECTIONS ♦ Kate Forsyth's personal story about how she became fascinated by Rapunzel http://www.kateforsyth.com.au/kates- blog/bitter_greens_the_story_behind_my_fascination_with_rapunzel ♦ Sister Liguori “The Nun in the Nightgown” http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/partridge-bridget-7968 ♦ Mary Bryant’s escape with husband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bryant ♦ Gymea lily (a tough red head up a tower) http://www.anbg.gov.au/aborig.s.e.aust/doryanthes-excelsa.html ♦ “GanG-gang: Once Was Rapunzel” March 11, 2015 http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/ganggang-once-was- rapunzel-20150311-140on1.html VISUAL & FINE ARTS ♦ Alice Anderson art installation with hair: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/alice-anderson- tressed-for-success-2262379.html http://www.riflemaker.org/s-alice-anderson ♦ Deann Cumner (Australian artist) - Rapunzel http://www.deanncumner.com/view.html?item=194 ♦ Bill Gekas