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Author | : Cristina Bacchilega |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081433928X |
Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.
Author | : Karrie Fransman |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0571360203 |
Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow outside. People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change.. They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders. It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.
Author | : Donald Haase |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814330302 |
Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.
Author | : Gretchen Schultz |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0691191417 |
"The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.
Author | : Nikita Gill |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0316420735 |
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory. But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. You will meet fearless princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own. Complete with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Gill herself, Fierce Fairytales is an empowering collection of poems and stories for a new generation.
Author | : Kate Christine Moore Koppy |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2021-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793612781 |
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 | : Robert Walser |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0811224902 |
Three mini-plays by the German wunderkind and asylum-dweller. Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of the fairy tale, transforming the Brothers Grimm into metatheater, even metareflections. Snow White forgives the evil queen for trying to kill her, Cinderella doubts her prince and enjoys being hated by her evil stepsisters; the Fairy Tale itself is a character who encourages her to stay within the confines of the story. Sleeping Beauty, the royal family, and its retainers are not happy about being woken from their sleep by an absurd, unpretentious, Walser-like hero. Mary and Joseph are taken aback by what lies in store for their baby Jesus.
Author | : Jack Zipes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135204349 |
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.
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Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1985-08-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0394856937 |
A lush treasury of 19 fairy tales that generations of children have grown up on, lushly illustrated by Diane Goode.
Author | : Cristina Bacchilega |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812200632 |
Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: "Snow White," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Bluebeard." Bacchilega traces the oral sources of each tale, offers a provocative interpretation of contemporary versions by Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Margaret Atwood, and Tanith Lee, and explores the ways in which the tales are transformed in film, television, and musicals.