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Tales, Then and Now This Page Intentionally Left Blank T ALES, T N HEN AND OW More Folktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults Anna E. Altmann Gail de Vos 2001 Libraries Unlimited A Division of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Englewood, Colorado Copyright © 2001 Anna E. Altmann and Gail de Vos All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. LIBRARIES UNLIMITED A Division of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. P.O. Box 6633 Englewood, CO 80155-6633 1-800-237-6124 www.lu.com LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Altmann, Anna E. Tales, then and now : more folk tales as young adult literary fictions / Anna E. Altmann, Gail de Vos. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56308-831-2 (softbound) 1. Folklore in literature. 2. Literature and folklore. 3. Young adult fiction--History and criticism. 4. Tales--Adaptations--History and criticism. I. De Vos, Gail, 1949- II. Title. PN56.F58 A45 2001 398.2'0835--dc21 2001038274 To my siblings, Toni, Urs, Barbara, and Erik, who share the journey. AEA To Taryn and Lawrence, who are beginning their “happy ever after” story. GdV This Page Intentionally Left Blank C ontents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Contents 1 —BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tale Type: AT 425C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A History of “Beauty and the Beast” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 de Villeneuve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 de Beaumont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Nineteenth-Century Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Overview of Critical Interpretations of “Beauty and the Beast”. . . . . . . . 7 Reworkings of “Beauty and the Beast” in Novel Form. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast . . . . . . . . . 16 Kristin and Boone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Roses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Beauty and the Beast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Beauty and the Beast: Night of Beauty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Fire Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Rose: A Novel Based on Beauty and the Beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Beauty: A Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Rose Daughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 “Rusina, Not Quite in Love”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Short Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Feature Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 La belle et la bête . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Beauty and the Beast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Beauty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Musical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Television Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 vii viii n CONTENTS 1 —BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(continued) Internet Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Classroom Extensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Beast in the Attic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Five Stable Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Initiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 King Kong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Pictures and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Polar Opposites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Strauss and Browne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Filling the Gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 The Tale Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Endnotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 2 —JACK AND HIS STORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Tale Type: AT 328. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 A History of “Jack the Giant Killer” and “Jack and the Beanstalk”. . . . . . 53 Jack in the Oral Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 In Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 In North America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Jack in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Differences Between the European Jack and His North American Cousin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Overview of Critical Interpretations of Jack’s Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Reworkings of Jack in Novel Form. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Jack of Kinrowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Similarities Between the Novels and Folklore Sources . . . . . . . 68 Related Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Jackie and the Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Crazy Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Short Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Films and Stage Plays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Picture Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Graphic Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Internet Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Classroom Extensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 “Fee Fo Fum” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Mary Shelley and Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Novel Study:Jack of Kinrowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Darkness and Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Fairy Tale Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Contents n ix Images of Giants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Jack the Trickster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Popular Culture References inJack of Kinrowan. . . . . . . . . . . 82 Recommended Folklore Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 “Wild Hunt”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 3 —TWO BALLADS: TAM LIN AND THOMAS THE RHYMER . . . . . . . . . . 87 “Tam Lin” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 “Thomas the Rhymer”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Tale Type Numbers and Motifs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Child Ballad Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 A History of the Ballads “Tam Lin” and “Thomas the Rhymer” . . . . . . . 92 Overview of Critical Interpretations of the Two Ballads. . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Tam Lin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 “Thomas the Rhymer” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Reworkings of the Ballads in Novel Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 The Queen of Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Perilous Gard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Fire and Hemlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Tam Lin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 A Winter Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Thomas the Rhymer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The Rhymer and the Ravens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Short Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 “Tam Lin”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 “Thomas the Rhymer” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Poetry and Song Lyrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Picture Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Graphic Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Internet Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Classroom Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 The Heroic Ideal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Literary Allusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Orpheus and “Thomas the Rhymer”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 A Parcel of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Roses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Shakespeare and Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Triads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Tristrem and Isolde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Using Ballads in the Classroom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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