SOURCE: "Barthelme's 'Snow White': The Making of a Modern Fairy Tale," in Southern Folklore Quarterly, Vol. 45, 1981, pp. 145-53.
In the following essay, Halden looks at Donald Barthelme's Snow White both as a traditional fairy tale and as an inversion of established fairy-tale symbolism.
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