MYTH, FOLKTALE AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 234

LIST OF READINGS FOR FINAL EXAMINATION

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Alice in Wonderland.
Hergé, Prisoners of the Sun (Le Temple du Soleil).
Salman Rushdie. Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
Sook Nyul Choi. Karen M. Dugan, ill. Halmoni and the Picnic.

African Myths and Tales, ed. by Feldman:

Mulungu and the Beasts (separate hand-out)
When the Sky was Close
The Tower to Heaven
The Separation of God from Man
How the Lame Boy Brought Fire from Heaven
How the Earth Folk Received Fire
Fire from Heaven
The Two Strangers
The Perverted Message (all variants)
Let the Big Drum Roll
How an Unborn Child Avenged its Mother's Death
A Hunter and his Son
The Maiden Who was Sacrificed by her Kin
Why the Young Giant Lost His Strength
The Son of Kim-Ana-U-Eze and the Daughter of Sun and Moon

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Jack Zipes, tr. and ed.:

The Pink Flower
The Three Languages
The White Snake
Clever Hans
Freddy and Katy
The Good Bargain
The Three Sons of Fortune
Lucky Hans
The Singing Bone
The Juniper Tree
The Goosegirl
Faithful Johannes
The Black and the White Bride
The Three Little Gnomes in the Forest
Mother Holle
Princess Mouseskin
Snow White
The Water of Life
The Magic Table, the Gold Donkey, and the
Club in the Sack
Godfather Death
All Fur
Simple Hans
Fitcher's Bird
Bluebeard
The King of the Golden Mountain
The Six Servants
The Maiden Without Hands
The Three Snake Leaves
The Singing, Springing Lark
The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich
The Three Daughters and the Frog King
Snow White and Rose Red

One Hundred Favorite Folktales, ed. by Stith Thompson

The Three Languages
The Language of the Animals
Anpu and Bata
Polyphemus the Cyclops
Gudbrand on the Hillside
Peter Ox
Big Claus and Little Claus
The Servant Who Took the Place of his Master
The White Bride and the Black Bride
The Two Stepsisters
The Rich Man and his Son-in-Law
The Self-Propelled Carriage
Godfather Death
Friends in Life and Death
King Bean
The King Who Wanted a Beautiful Wife
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
The Frog Princess

Folktales from Hungary, ed. & tr. by Linda Dégh

When I was a Miller
Pretty Maid Ibronka
The Magic Calk
The Count's Horses
A Dead Husband Returns to Reveal Hidden Treasure