Resources
Good site for ideas: Fairy Tales: Origins and Evolution
Compare your favorite Disney classics: Beauty and Beast, Little Mermaid, Snow White
Folklore and Mythology and Electronic Texts of D. L. Ashliman at University of Pittsburgh .
. Non-electronic resources:
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Knopf, 1977.
Bottigheimer, Ruth. Fairy Tales and Society: Illusions, Allusions, and Paradigm. Philadelphia : U of Penn, 1986.
Ellis, John. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Michaelis-Jena, Ruth. The Brothers Grimm. London, 1970.
Snyder, Louis. "Nationalistic Aspects of the Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales," in Journal of Social Psychology, 33:209-23.
Zipes, Jack. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Routledge, 1988.