In Search of Cupid and Psyche: Myth and Legend in Children's Literature


IN SEARCH OF CUPID AND PSYCHE: MYTH AND LEGEND IN
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
READINGS

The following readings have been assigned for course number: 17:611:589:88 [11669], in the school of Professional Development Studies at Rutgers University, SCILS, by Michael Joseph.

Adams, Jeff. The Conspiracy of The Text : The Place of Narrative In The Development of Thought.London ; New York: Routledge & K. Paul, 1986.

The Adventures of Torti: Tales From West Africa, retold by Okechukwu K. Ugorji Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1991.
Selection: The Magic Drum.

Apuleius. Cupid and Psyche.
The text of "Cupid and Psyche" is taken from Lucius Apuleius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass / a new translation by Robert Graves. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1951, 1972: chapters 7,8 and 9.

Apuleius. Cupid & Psyche / Apuleius. Edited by E.J. Kenney. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Balme, Maurice George. Cupid and Psyche; an adaptation from The Golden Ass of Apuleius [by] M. G. Balme [and] J. H. W. Morwood. [London]: Oxford University Press, [c1976]

Barth, Edna.Cupid and Psyche; a love story, retold by Edna Barth ; illustrated by Ati Forberg. New York: Seabury Press, c1976.

Beauties and Beasts [collected] by Betsy Hearne; illustrated by Joanne Caroselli. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1993.
Presents several versions of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Cupid and Psyche," and provides several tales that reverse traditional gender roles. Includes commentary on each tale, activities, bibliographies, and a list of sources.

Beauty and the Beast, retold by Jan Carr. 1993; illustrated by Katy Bratun. New York: Scholastic, 1993.
Image from Beauty and the Dying Beast

Beauty and The Beast; with illustrations selected and arranged by Cooper Edens from the Green Tiger’s collection of old children’s books. San Diego: Green Tiger Press, 1989.

Beauty and the Beast : Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, R.L. Stevenson and their contemporaries. Edited by Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges. Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1996.

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.
Sections relating to "Cupid and Psyche" discussed by James Gollnick

Campbell. Joseph. The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1968, 1973. (particularly Chapter II, 1-3).

-- The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology. New York: Viking, 1959.

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co. 1865.
OUR ONLINE VERSION adapted from Project Gutenberg--THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0.

Cinderella. Cinderella Project. University of Southern Mississippi. http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/cinderella.html

Classic African Children's Stories: A Collection of Ancient Tales, edited and compiled by Phyllis Savory. (New York: Citadel, 1995).
 Selection: The Son of The Tortoise

Craft, M. Charlotte (Marie Charlotte). Cupid and Psyche as told by M. Charlotte Craft ; illustrated by K.Y. Craft. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1996.

Ekwensi, Cyprian. The Great Elephant Bird. Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann Kenya, 1990.

Eliade, Mircea. Myth and Reality. Trans. Willard R. Trask. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

-- The Myth of the Eternal Return, or, Cosmos and History, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
The Structure of Myths, an excerpt.

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1957, 1971.

-- The Stubborn Structure. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1970.

Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, 1972.
Sections relating to Orpheus; Demeter/Persephone; Pandora; Andromeda; Hesione

-- The White Goddess: A historical grammar of poetic myth. Amended and enlarged edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1948, 1980.

A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, 3d. ed., edited by Wilfred L. Guerin, Earle Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne C. Reesman, John R. Willingham. New York. Oxford UP, 1992.
 Sections relating to Mythological and archetypal criticism

Harrison, Jane Ellen. Mythology. New York: Harcourt, 1924, 1963.

A Harvest of World Folk Tales, edited by Milton Rugoff. New York: Viking, 1971.
Section:Shining Lodge: A Blackfoot Tale

Hearne, Betsy. Beauty and The Beast : Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale; with an essay by Larry DeVries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Hodges, Margaret. The arrow and the lamp : the story of Psyche retold by Margaret Hodges; illustrated by Donna Diamond. Boston : Little, Brown, c1989.

Hooke, S.H. Middle Eastern Mythology. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
Sections relating to Inanna; Ishtar; Telepinus.

The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales, retold by Neil Philip, illustrated by Nilesh Mistry New York: DK Publishing, 1998.
 Illustration of The Dying Beast

James, Paula. Unity in Diversity : a Study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses : with particular reference to the narrator's art of transformation and the metamorphosis motif in the Tale of Cupid and Psyche Paula James. Hildesheim ; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 1987

Joseph, Michael. "Cupid As Monster Husband." http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/mjoseph/cupid_as_monster.html

-- "Images of Beauty and The Beast" http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/mjoseph/Images_Beauty_Beast.html

Labouvie-Vief, Gisela. Psyche and Eros : Mind and Gender in the Life Course. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Lake, Rosemary. Fairy Tales. www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Meadow/5332

The Language of Poetry, edited by Allen Tate. New York: Russell, 1960.

Leeming, David Adams. The World of Myth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Lewis, C.S. Till We Have Faces. San Diego; New York; London: A Harvest/HBJ Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, 1956.

Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked. London: Cape, 1970.

The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature, edited by Cathy M. Davidson and E.M. Broner. New York: Ungar, 1980.

Neumann, Erich. Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.
Section discussed by James Gollnick

Orgel, Doris. The Princess and The God. New York: Bantam, 1996.

Pratt, Annis. Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction. Brighton: Harvester, 1982.

-- Dancing With Goddesses: Archetypes, Poetry, and Empowerment. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994

The Prodigal daughter, or, A strange and wonderful relation : Shewing how a gentleman of a vast estate in Bristol had a proud and disobedient daughter ... Boston, printed and sold at I. Thomas's Printing-Office near the Mill Bridge, [1771 or 1772].
OUR ONLINE VERSION: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/mjoseph/prodigal.html

Rennie, Bryan S. Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.
 "Myths and Mythology"—chapter seven.

Richardson, I. M. The Adventures of Eros and Psyche, written by I.M. Richardson; illustrated by Robert Baxter. Mahwah, N.J. : Troll Associates, c1983.

San Souci, Robert. The Talking Eggs. New York: Dial, 1989.

Schroeder, J. Het Sprookje van Amor en Psyche in het licht der Psychoanalyse. Baarn, Netherlands, 1917.
 Section discussed by James Gollnick.

Shorer, Mark. William Blake: The Politics of Vision. New York: Holt, 1940.

Toads & Diamonds, retold by Charlotte Huck; pictures by Anita Lobel. New York: Greenwillow, 1996.

Vandergrift, Kay. Vandergrift's Feminist Page. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/feminist.html

--. " Little Snow White" http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/snowwhitetext.html

Wheelwright, Philip. Metaphor and Reality. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962.

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