Thursday, September 25, 2014

Find an entry in The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes that could be useful in a "Cinderella" research paper. Create a works cited page that includes each chosen entry. Write an annotated bibliography for the chosen entry.

You did not specify what the "Cinderella" research paper entails or the guidelines for the assignment, so when researching and choosing a useful entry, I focused on the popular fairy tale with its various versions in mind. Below is the citation in MLA style, as well as material for an annotated bibliography. Keep in mind, again, I am not sure what you are asked to do in this research paper, so I took a general approach to the material.

Goldberg, Harriet. “Cinderella.” The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes, Second edition, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 110-113.

In this entry, Harriet Goldberg begins by telling us a bit about the first European literary appearance of the Cinderella fairy tale in the sixteenth century. She focuses mainly on its circulation in Europe but mentions that the story has been adapted and re-adapted across the world, from Africa, to China, to Australia, to Japan. The reason for this is that the story has universal appeal and common features, such as that it is easily segmented, it includes a magical helper, it explores social mobility through marriage, and it features an identity test such as Cinderella’s lost slipper. Goldberg emphasizes that there have been many versions (literary, dramatic, musical, poetic, cinematic) of the fairy tale but that it remains a stable story and that scholars are still working on understanding it fully.
You might consider adding to this by tailoring it to your assignment guidelines and researching other entries in the encyclopedia. You can use this example as a guide.

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