Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher:
ISBN: 1250257611
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A fantastical collection of classic stories with a hands-on STEM twist.

Author: John Cargill Brough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Melanie Keene
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199662657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Presents a new perspective on Victorian scientific discoveries and inventions; includes a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales and stories; looks at why fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences; examines a range of scientific subjects, from palaeontology to entomology to astronomy.--Provided by publisher.

Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Jeremy Kubica
Publisher: Jeremy Kubica
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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"Introduces principles of computational thinking, illustrating high-level computer science concepts, the motivation behind them, and their application in a non-computer fairy tale domain."--Amazon.com.

Author: Laura Magner
Publisher: Pieces of Learning
ISBN: 1931334943
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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This book "draws on fairy tales as the context for practicing the scientific method and learning scientific knowledge."--Cover back.

Author: Kate Christine Moore Koppy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793612781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy argues that the increasing popularity and presence of fairy tales within American culture is both indicative of and contributing to this shift. By analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches, Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of American secular scripture, a corpus of shared stories that work to maintain a sense of community among diverse audiences in the United States, as much as biblical scripture and associated texts used to.

Author: Suzanne Magnanini
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802097545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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"Between 1550 and 1650, marvellous stories of women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and valiant men slaying dragons appeared in Europe. Circulated in scientific texts and in the first two collections of fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparolas Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basiles Lo cunto de li cunti, the stories invigorated readers and established a new literary genre. Despite the fact that the printed European fairy tale was born in Italy, however, contemporary readers tend to think of France or Germany as the genres place of origin.Fairy-Tale Science looks at the birth of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous, and explains how scientific discourse and literary theories of the marvellous limited the genre's success on its native soil. Suzanne Magnanini argues that men of science positioned the fairy tale in opposition to science and fixed it as a negative pole in a binary system. This system came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by adopting theories of the monstrous as metaphors for their own literary production, Straparola and Basile aligned the literary fairy tale, the feminine, and the monstrous, and essentially marginalized the new genre.Fairy-Tale Science expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination and investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and marvellous literature."

Author: Emily Brewes
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 145974702X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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An astounding tale of a dangerous quest, a talking dog, and fragmented fairy tales in an eerie post-climate collapse future. A long time ago, the Vanderchucks fled the growing climate disaster and followed their neighbours into the Underground. Jesse Vanderchuck thought it was the end. Of the world. Of life. Eventually, Jesse’s little sister, Olivia, ran away and Jesse started picking through trash heaps in Toronto’s abandoned subway tunnels. Day in, day out. Now, years later, Jesse meets a talking dog. Fighting illness and the hostile world aboveground, Jesse and Doggo embark on a fool’s errand to find Olivia — or die trying. Along the way, Jesse spins a series of fairy tales from threads of memories, weaving together the past, present, and future into stories of brave girls, of cunning lads, of love in the face of wickedness, and of hope in the midst of despair.