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Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
Inbunden, 2016
478 kr
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The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. The tales are bawdy and irreverent but also tender …
Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale
Av Danielle M. Roemer, Cristina Bacchilega
Häftad, 2001
364 kr
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Angela Carter (1940-92) is widely known for her literary fairy tales, particularly those appearing in ""The Bloody Chamber"". Her stylishly creative appropriation and adaptation of fairy-tale patterns, motifs and content are evident not only in her individual tales written for adults but throughout …
Fairy Tales and Feminism
New Approaches
Häftad, 2004
345 kr
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In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. By exposing the role of fairy tales in the cultural struggle over gender, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked a debate that would change the way society …
Arabian Nights Reader
Häftad, 2006
359 kr
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The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of ""Oriental"" provenance. Bringing together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of tales became popular in the Western world during the eighteenth century and has since exerted a …
Marvelous Geometry
Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale
Häftad, 2009
393 kr
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This title explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film. In ""Marvelous Geometry"", Jessica Tiffin argues that within twentieth- and twenty-first-century Western literature there …
Some Day Your Witch Will Come
Av Kay Stone
Häftad, 2008
397 kr
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This book collects nearly thirty years of major work by noted writer and folklore scholar Kay Stone. In this enjoyable volume, Kay Stone has selected writings from her scholarly articles and books spanning 1975-2004 that contain reflections on the value of fairy tales as adult literature. The title …
Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective
Häftad, 2007
413 kr
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At a meeting sponsored by UNESCO at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, nineteen international scholars presented their work on the transnational aspects of the ""Arabian Nights"". This volume collects their papers, whose topics range from the history of the ""Arabian Nights"" …
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales
An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings
Häftad, 2011
413 kr
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In Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings Vanessa Joosen broadens the traditional concept of intertextuality to include academic texts. With three key texts from the 1970s at the center of her …
Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Av Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp, Sibelan Forrester
Häftad, 2012
457 kr
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Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale—but Morphology is only the first of Propp’s contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian …
Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World
An Anthology of International Retellings
Häftad, 2013
461 kr
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Across various time periods, audiences, aesthetics, and cultural landscapes, Little Red Riding Hood is a universal icon, and her story is one of the world's most retold tales. In Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World: An Anthology of International Retellings, Sandra L. Beckett presents over …
Transgressive Tales
Queering the Grimms
Av Kay Turner, Pauline Greenhill
Häftad, 2012
461 kr
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The stories in the Grimm brothers’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, …
Fairy Tales Transformed?
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder
Häftad, 2013
409 kr
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Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairy-tale scholar …
Queer Enchantments
Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy
Häftad, 2013
345 kr
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To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy colour schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, author …
Reading, Translating, Rewriting
Angela Carter's Translational Poetics
Av Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
Häftad, 2013
397 kr
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In translating Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralités into English, Angela Carter worked to modernise the language and message of the tales before rewriting many of them for her own famous collection of fairy tales for adults, The Bloody …
Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Häftad, 2014
397 kr
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Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes various …
Mother Goose Refigured
A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales
Häftad, 2016
397 kr
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Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (“Stories or Tales of the Past”) in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first “vogue” of tales produced by learned French writers. The genre that we now know so well was new and an uncommon type of literature in the epic world …
Politics of Magic
DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
Av Qinna Shen
Häftad, 2015
381 kr
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From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on …
Grimms' Tales Around the Globe
The Dynamics of Their International Reception
Av Vanessa Joosen, Gillian Lathey
Häftad, 2014
413 kr
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Grimms’ fairy tales are among the best-known stories in the world, but the way they have been introduced into and interpreted by cultures across the globe has varied enormously. In Grimms’ Tales around the Globe, editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe …
Channeling Wonder
Fairy Tales on Television
Av Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy
Häftad, 2014
359 kr
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Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently …
Erotic Infidelities
Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber
Häftad, 2014
397 kr
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In the thirty-five years since the publication of The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter’s reimagined fairy tales have inspired an impressive body of criticism. Yet none has addressed the ways her fairy tales grapple with and seek to overcome the near impossibility of heterosexual love and desire under …
Teaching Fairy Tales
Häftad, 2019
623 kr
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Teaching Fairy Tales edited by Nancy L. Canepa brings together scholars who have contributed to the field of fairy-tale studies since its origins. This collection offers information on materials, critical approaches and ideas, and pedagogical resources for the teaching of fairy tales in one …
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West
Av Mayako Murai
Häftad, 2015
397 kr
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As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than traditional tales and feature female …
Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws
Fairy-Tale Beasts
Inbunden, 2015
336 kr
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A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim through fairy-tale history. Some marvelous animal characters are deeply inscribed in current popular culture—the beast redeemed by beauty, the wolf in pursuit of little girls and little pigs, the frog prince released from enchantment by …
Cinderella Across Cultures
Av Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
387 kr
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The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore …
Craving Supernatural Creatures
German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture
Häftad, 2019
359 kr
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Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture analyzes supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and Otherness with terror, distance, and negativity, whereas contemporary North American popular culture …
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
Fairy-Tale Film Truths
Häftad, 2020
359 kr
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Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality.Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the …
Pleasures of Metamorphosis
Japanese and English Fairy-Tale Transformations of ""the Little Mermaid
Av Lucy Fraser
Häftad, 2017
445 kr
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Lucy Fraser’s The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid" explores Japanese and English transformations of Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 Danish fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by focusing on pleasure as a means to analyze the huge variety …
Relief After Hardship
The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days
Inbunden, 2017
591 kr
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Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition.
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space
Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales
Häftad, 2021
413 kr
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Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. It analyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and Secret Garden (a Korean drama), the …
Women Writing Wonder
An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales
Av Julie L. J. Koehler, Julie L. J. Koehler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1223 kr
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Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women authors who …
