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101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, …
A True Blue Idea
Marina Colasanti is a Brazilian journalist, visual artist, and author of over sixty volumes of short stories, poetry, essays, and children's literature. Her books have been …
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. …
Craving Supernatural Creatures
Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture analyzes supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, …
Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws
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 …
Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
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, …
Inviting Interruptions
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of ways to challenge the …
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space
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 …
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
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 …
Relief after Hardship
Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition.
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new …
Staging Fairyland
Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale.In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical …