Fairy Tale

Warner explores a wealth of fairy tales in all their variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Drawing on an array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White, Warner forms a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.