Major Idea Display

Major Idea is a new series we're doing this year to highlight topics within disciplines as a way to introduce different majors. Find the display at the beginning of the Reference section of books.

If you're interested in learning about the major, talk to one of the Los Banos Campus' academic counselors. Learn about careers in that major from the Los Banos Campus' career counselor.

In this display, we're exploring English through literature, specifically fairy tales and folklore.

Children's

CHB PIN The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney

CHB 398.2 HAM Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton

Non-fiction

398.2 BAB Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairytales

398.2 CAS The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales by Sheldon Cashdan

398.2 FAI Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches edited by Donald Haase

398.2 TEL The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art edited by W.S. Penn

398.2 ZIP Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes

398.2089 AFR African American Folktales edited by Roger D. Abrahams

398.245 BET The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

813.4 HIS The Historian’s Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum’s Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory

Reference

Ref 398.2 ASH Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook by D.L. Ashliman

Databases

Literature Resource Center

Web Articles

Book Riot, “Why Do We Sanitize Fairy Tales?”

Brain Pickings, “J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing ‘For Children’”

The Guardian, "Five Hundred New Fairytales Discovered in Germany"

Mental Floss, “8 Fairytales and Their Not-So-Happy Endings"

National Endowment for the Humanities, “How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairytale”

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