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                 Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2021 Edition World Literature Fairytales

                

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, Bruno Bettelheim

     Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, Marie-Louise von Franz

     The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, The Anatomy Of Puck, Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins Brownies Bogies & Other Supernatural Creatures, Kate Krackernuts, Hobberdy Dick, Katharine M. Briggs

     A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Folger Library, William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat & Paul Werstine (Editors)

     The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardiner

     Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales (Virago Fairy Tales #1-2), Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella & Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault,

 Angela Carter, Charles Perrault, Jack D. Zipes (Introduction), Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World, Angela Carter

     Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye, Madonna Kolbenschlag

     From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock, Marina Warner

     Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook, Cinderella: A Casebook, Alan Dundes (Editor)

     Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère , Gillian Lathey, Monika Woźniak, (Editors)

     Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, Catherine Orenstein

     Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale, Betsy Hearne

     The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, The Annotated Brothers Grimm: The Bicentennial Edition (editor), Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives, The Annotated Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Editor), The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters (editor), Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Maria Tatar

      Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales

by Sibelan E.S. Forrester (Translation), Jack D. Zipes (Foreword), Helena Goscilo (Contributor), Martin Skoro (Contributor)

      Rackham’s Fairy Tale Illustrations, Arthur Rackham

     The Wizard of Oz: The Official 75th Anniversary Companion, William Stillman, Jay Scarfone

     Faeries, Good Faeries Bad Faeries, The Goblin Companion, Goblins! A Survival Guide and Fiasco in Four Parts, The Faeries’ Oracle, Brian Froud’s World of Faerie, Brian Froud’s Faeries’ Tales, Brian Froud

     The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films, Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales, The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre, The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture, Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales, Jack D. Zipes

     My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales, Kate Bernheimer

     Snow White Blood Red, Black Thorn White Rose, Ruby Slippers Golden Tears, Black Swan White Raven, Silver Birch Blood Moon, Black Heart Ivory Bones, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Editors)

     Jack, the Giant Killer, Drink Down the Moon, Charles de Lint

     Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner

     Swan’s Wing, Ursula Synge

     The Coachman Rat, David Henry Wilson

     Tam Lin, Juniper Gentian and Rosemary, Pamela Dean

     The Sun the Moon & the Stars, Steven Brust

     The Nightingale, Kara Dalkey

     Fitcher’s Brides, Gregory Frost

     Briar Rose, The Emerald Circus, Jane Yolen

     Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik

     The Wicked Years (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Out of Oz), Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Mirror Mirror, Lost, What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, After Alice,  Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker,  Gregory Maguire  

     Cat’s Eye, Life Before Man, Interlunar, The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwod

The Fairytale Sexual Politics of Margaret Atwood, Sharon Rose Wilson

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I am a former counselor, teacher, and debate coach who loves to read and write, and a student of literature, psychology, history, philosophy, and languages who loves to travel. Help me celebrate the lives and works of our great authors as a common human heritage. I can also be reached at jayofdollhousepark@gmail.com. Regarding my literary criticism on Dollhouse Park Conservatory and Imaginarium: My initial project was to celebrate the authors whose work I love on their birthdays, by reading something of theirs and writing an appreciation. I've now come full circle and completed the calendar year. These are the authors whose works have been my companions through life, and some new discoveries. Many of their books are ones I also taught in high school English classes; works thoroughly lived with. I also include reading lists by national literature, a Modern American Literature group of lists, and Best Books of the Year lists and reviews. There will occasionally be my own poetry as well; you are warned. I hope that you may also find books which will help you through life and bring depth and joy to your days. As to my aesthetics, I envision the mission of creating civilization as a game played by figures which represent conserving and revolutionary forces, as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot may serve as paragons of their sides of the board and reflect each other as partners in the great game of reimagining humankind, a result of the early influence of Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game and Yasunari Kawabata’s The Master of Go, which I read during seventh grade, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, which I read the following year. Each of us, as with every author, musician, artist, scientist, or public figure, plays the Great Game on one of these dyadic teams. The function of conservatism is to buffer order from the shock of the new and withstand stresses and changing conditions without losing ourselves or undergoing morphogenic change, the loss of identity as structural form, or ruptures to our prochronism, the memory and history of our choices, successful adaptations and strategies of survival as expressed in our systemic form, the loss of our culture and traditions. The function of revolution and innovation is to capitalize on chaos as adaptive potential in dynamically unstable conditions, to adapt and shape ourselves to future needs and to transform, create, and discover new forms, meanings, and values. We need both conserving and revolutionary forces to envision and enact a thing of beauty, be it a person, story, song, film, theory, or any creative artifact of authentic human imagination and experience. A beautiful political structure may be judged by the same criterion as a beautiful poem; so also with humans and the values their actions embody. Thank you so much for your company on this journey. Regarding my daily political journal on Torch of Freedom, a voice of progressive democracy and the antifascist Resistance: I stand for liberty, equality, truth, and justice; a free society of equals. My America is a torch of Liberty and a beacon of hope to the world. I stand for the absolute structural and systemic equality of all human beings, and for the Rights of Man everywhere on earth. I am on the side of Prometheus; rebellion, chaos, anarchy, resistance, transgression, revolution, and the frightening of the horses. Herein I write as an agent of Chaos and Transformation whose goal in life is to become a fulcrum and change the balance of power in the world. For thirty-nine years now I have been engaged in antifascist action, democracy activism, and revolutionary struggle against tyranny and state terror for the liberation of humankind, wherever men hunger to be free. And so I offer to all of you the Oath of the Resistance as it was given to me in Beirut 1982 by the great Jean Genet as he formulated it in Paris 1940, in a burning house, in a lost cause, in a time of force and darkness, in a last stand and an act of defiance beyond hope of victory or survival; “We swear our loyalty to each other, who answer tyranny with Liberty and fascism with Equality. We shall resist and yield not, and abandon not our fellows.” Resist and fear not, O my brothers and sisters, for in resistance we seize our freedom and become Unconquered.

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