Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Fairy tales, copyright, and the public domain
- 2 Female tricksters as double agents
- 3 While beauty sleeps
- 4 Fairy-tale adaptations and economies of desire
- 5 Fairy-tale symbolism
- 6 Trickster heroes in “The Boy Steals the Ogre’s Treasure”
- 7 Exploring empathy and ethics in tales about three brothers
- 8 The creation of Cinderella from Basile to the Brothers Grimm
- 9 The soul music of “The Juniper Tree”
- 10 Sex, crime, magic, and mystery in theThousand and One Nights
- 11 Media-hyping of fairy tales
- 12 Transformations of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s tales from Hawthorne to Oz
- Guide to further reading
- Index of tales
- Main index
6 - Trickster heroes in “The Boy Steals the Ogre’s Treasure”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Fairy tales, copyright, and the public domain
- 2 Female tricksters as double agents
- 3 While beauty sleeps
- 4 Fairy-tale adaptations and economies of desire
- 5 Fairy-tale symbolism
- 6 Trickster heroes in “The Boy Steals the Ogre’s Treasure”
- 7 Exploring empathy and ethics in tales about three brothers
- 8 The creation of Cinderella from Basile to the Brothers Grimm
- 9 The soul music of “The Juniper Tree”
- 10 Sex, crime, magic, and mystery in theThousand and One Nights
- 11 Media-hyping of fairy tales
- 12 Transformations of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s tales from Hawthorne to Oz
- Guide to further reading
- Index of tales
- Main index
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales , pp. 117 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014