#38 A GRIMM Understanding of Retellings

Content warning for discussion of sexual assault in mythology and romance novels at times: 1:00:58 -1:11:36

This is a long one, you sparkly romance nerds. Buckle in! We're diving into Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast, Pride & Prejudice, and Hades & Persephone! If you haven't listened to part one, go click #37 for some information on the different categories of retellings. Questions/Comments/Concerns? Don't forget to email us at [email protected]!

Terms:

• Folktale - a fictional story passed down by generations, generally starting as an oral tradition, and with the purpose of relating a moral or life lesson to the listener.
• Tale Type - a self-sufficient narrative
• Motif - the smallest descriptive unit within the narrative. These motifs combined together create the building blocks that lead us up to a narrative
• Myth - a legendary story that usually explains some historical or religious phenomenon
• Literature - in this episode, this refers to fictional writings that serve no larger purpose than just to tell a story
• Trope - a narrative within the larger literary narrative; a path built of motifs that leads to an understood outcome
• The Aarne-Thompson-Uther classification of folktales - abbreviated to ATU, this is a classification system of tale types and motifs. The ATU groups together multiple tales that represent an independent type which has been documented amongst at least three ethnic groups or over a long time period.

Cinderella links

• ATU Tale Types 510: Persecuted Heroine stories
• Tale of Rhodopsis
• Tale of Ye Xian
• Pentamarone by Giambattista Basile "Cenerentola" (1634)
• Histoires ou contes du temps passé by Charles Perrault "Cendrillon; ou la petite pantoufle du verre" (1697)
• Aschenputtel by the Brothers Grimm (1812)
• "The History of Cinderella" (Abilene Public Library)
• Cinderella Across cultures (ed. by de la Rochère, 2016)
• "A Girl, A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving Cinderella"(Holmes for NPR, 2015)
• Retellings
• A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James
• If the Shoe Fits by Julia Murphy
• A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
• Midnight in the Garden of the Prince by Catherine Keaton
• Rogue Princess by BR Meyers
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon 
• Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare
• One Night with You by Sophie Jordan

Beauty and the Beast links

• ATU tale type 425 A-C: The Search for the Enchanted Lost Husband
• "The Woman Who Married the Snake" from the Panchatantra (1199 CE, possibly as early as 200BCE)
• "Cupid and Psyche" as written by Lucius Apuleius in The Golden Ass (1st and 2nd c. CE)
• La Jeune Americaine et les Contes Marins by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot, Dame de Villeneuve in her work (1740)
• Magasin des enfants by Jean-Marie le Prince de Beaumont (1756)
• “Beauty and the Beast; visions and revisions of an old tale” by Betsy Hearne (1991)
• "Beauty and the Beast, Old And New" (Windling, 2007)
• "Beauty and the Beast" (Pook Press, 2018a)
• "7 Variants of Beauty and the Beast Fairy Tales – A Tale as Old as Time" (Pook Press, 2018b)
• Retellings
• A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
• The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare 
• Romancing the Duke ALSO by Tessa Dare
• Entreat Me by Grace Draven
• The Beast by Katee Robert

Pride & Prejudice links

• '"Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen Society of America
• ""Pride and Prejudice" Remains Timeless and Delightful, More than 200 Years Later" (Rogerson, 2020)
• "Why are we still so passionate about 'Pride & Prejudice'?" (Donahue, 2013)
• Retellings
• The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
• Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
• Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
• The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi

Hades & Persephone links

• Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• "The Story of Hades and Persephone: Rape and Romance" (Warner, 2020)
• "Hades and Persephone story" (Athens Beyond, 2021)
• "Persephone: Queen of the Underworld" (Greekmythology.com, 2021)
• "Homer" (Britannica)
• "Homerids" (Britannica)
• "Homerics Hymns 1-3" (Classical Texts Library)
• "Persephone" (wikipedia)
• Makowski, John F. “Persephone, Psyche, and the Mother-Maiden Archetype.” The Classical Outlook, vol. 62, no. 3, American Classical League, 1985, pp. 73–78 (jstor)
• Mylonas, George E. “The Hymn to Demeter.” The Classical Weekly, vol. 38, no. 23, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1945, pp. 180–82 (jstor)
• Parker, Robert. “The ‘Hymn to Demeter’ and the ‘Homeric Hymns.’” Greece & Rome, vol. 38, no. 1, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 1–17 (jstor)
• Retellings
• Neon Gods by Katee Robert
• Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
• Lore Olympus (vol.1) by Rachel Smythe
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas 
• Promises and Pomegranates by Sav r. Miller
• Kore by Ambrosia R. Harris
• Pestilence by Lauren Thelassa
• The Power of Hades by Eliza Raine
• It Ain’t Me Babe by Tillie COle
• Deal with the Elf King by Elisa Kova
• From Blood and Ash series and book by Jennifer Lynn Armentrout 
• Punderworld by Linda Sejic
• Circe by Madeleine Miller

Other links:

• "The uses and limitations of the Folklorist's toolkit for fiction" (Lemberg, 2015)
• "The Evolution of the Disney Princess Franchise: Catching Up and Moving Forward" (Maier, 2016)
• "Why Romance Will Never Stop Retelling Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast" (Popp, 2021)
• "Legendary Literary Couples Live on in Countless Retellings" (Cybil, 2019)
• da Silva, Sara Graça, and Jamshid J Tehrani. “Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales.” Royal Society open science vol. 3,1 150645. 20 Jan. 2016,

Other retellings:

• Omegaverse retellings Bleeding Red and Sullied Cinders by DE Chapman
• The Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy (King Midas, but Midas isn't endgame)
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan (myth of Chang E)
• A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow (Sleeping Beauty)
• Anything by Madeleine Miller, Pat Barker, or Jennifer L Saint!

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