Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195178211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Especially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy tales full of polished wit and prose.
Wonder Tales
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195178211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Especially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy tales full of polished wit and prose.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195178211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Especially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy tales full of polished wit and prose.
Channeling Wonder
Author: Pauline Greenhill
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814339239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814339239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.
Tales of Wonder
Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517902599
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards from the late 19th century to the present, this volume presents a fascinating look at how key scenes of fairy tales have been rendered over time, suggesting a rethinking and reliving of the tales through the years. Full color. 12 x 12.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517902599
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards from the late 19th century to the present, this volume presents a fascinating look at how key scenes of fairy tales have been rendered over time, suggesting a rethinking and reliving of the tales through the years. Full color. 12 x 12.
Fairy Tales Transformed?
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081433928X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081433928X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.
Tales of Wonder
Author: Brian Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999146644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999146644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Inviting Interruptions
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814347010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
As we make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales—and their critical analyses—will continue to interest and enchant general audiences, students, and scholars.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814347010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
As we make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales—and their critical analyses—will continue to interest and enchant general audiences, students, and scholars.
Wonder Tales of Ancient Wales
Author: B. L. K. Henderson
Publisher: Hamlin Press
ISBN: 140862091X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor
Publisher: Hamlin Press
ISBN: 140862091X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor
Wonder Tales from Around the World
Author:
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.
Magical Wonder Tales
Author: Isabel Wyatt
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782506993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
If Orfeo is to be king, his mother decides, he must sleep outside. And so Orfeo sleeps in the meadow and becomes friends with the animals, birds, insects and beetles. Then one day, he agrees to help a jackdaw return a ruby ring to a princess... King Beetle Tamer is just one of fifteen magical wonder tales in this collection by master storyteller Isabel Wyatt. The stories are full of magic and unicorns, fairies and palaces, roses and gold, which will transport children to a world of faraway places and heroic deeds._x000D_ Suitable for children aged seven and up, this is a classic collection from the author of The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book._x000D_ A new revised edition, previously published as King Beetle-Tamer.
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782506993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
If Orfeo is to be king, his mother decides, he must sleep outside. And so Orfeo sleeps in the meadow and becomes friends with the animals, birds, insects and beetles. Then one day, he agrees to help a jackdaw return a ruby ring to a princess... King Beetle Tamer is just one of fifteen magical wonder tales in this collection by master storyteller Isabel Wyatt. The stories are full of magic and unicorns, fairies and palaces, roses and gold, which will transport children to a world of faraway places and heroic deeds._x000D_ Suitable for children aged seven and up, this is a classic collection from the author of The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book._x000D_ A new revised edition, previously published as King Beetle-Tamer.
Preserving the Spell
Author: Armando Maggi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624296X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Once upon a time, glass slippers, poison apples, evil stepmothers, fairy godmothers, and princes charming exerted a magnetic hold, cast a magic spell, on adults and children alike. Real-life anxieties fostered a need for stories that assuage. But the world changes, and Maggi asks here whether fairy tales have found a way to transform themselves to keep up. He says no, they haven t. The genre of fairy tale has become contaminated, it has been entitized, like processed food, fossilized as Disney-esque icons. We need to rediscover the marvelous, the oneiric trance of dazzling dreams or horrid torments. We need a new mythic lens to help us understand reality, but to chart what that might be, it is necessary to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that intersect with each other across time and space. He goes to Giambattista Basile for the Ur fairy tales, with a special focus on the emblematic Cupid and Psyche myth, an anchor for Maggi s wide-ranging investigation of essential variations on fairy tales (with oppositions of beauty/ugly, human/divine, apparent/real). The transformations of later Italian, French, English, and German traditions come to a head with the Brothers Grimm in 19t-century Germany. Maggi brilliantly weaves the traditions into the 20th century, in memoirs such as those by Joan Didion, in postmodern novels such as Robert Coover s, and, in a final manifestation, in the convulsively, bleakly beautiful movie, "Beasts of the Southern Wild." This book offers profound reflections on reading fairy tales, on the inherent human need for narrative-myth (and, ultimately, for hope), showing us why we tell tales and how these stories transform over time. He offers, in an appendix, the first translation of the original Grimm edition of Basile s 50 tales."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624296X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Once upon a time, glass slippers, poison apples, evil stepmothers, fairy godmothers, and princes charming exerted a magnetic hold, cast a magic spell, on adults and children alike. Real-life anxieties fostered a need for stories that assuage. But the world changes, and Maggi asks here whether fairy tales have found a way to transform themselves to keep up. He says no, they haven t. The genre of fairy tale has become contaminated, it has been entitized, like processed food, fossilized as Disney-esque icons. We need to rediscover the marvelous, the oneiric trance of dazzling dreams or horrid torments. We need a new mythic lens to help us understand reality, but to chart what that might be, it is necessary to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that intersect with each other across time and space. He goes to Giambattista Basile for the Ur fairy tales, with a special focus on the emblematic Cupid and Psyche myth, an anchor for Maggi s wide-ranging investigation of essential variations on fairy tales (with oppositions of beauty/ugly, human/divine, apparent/real). The transformations of later Italian, French, English, and German traditions come to a head with the Brothers Grimm in 19t-century Germany. Maggi brilliantly weaves the traditions into the 20th century, in memoirs such as those by Joan Didion, in postmodern novels such as Robert Coover s, and, in a final manifestation, in the convulsively, bleakly beautiful movie, "Beasts of the Southern Wild." This book offers profound reflections on reading fairy tales, on the inherent human need for narrative-myth (and, ultimately, for hope), showing us why we tell tales and how these stories transform over time. He offers, in an appendix, the first translation of the original Grimm edition of Basile s 50 tales."