Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes]

Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes]

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  • Author: Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 2815

Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.


Folk and Fairy Tales - Fifth Edition

Folk and Fairy Tales - Fifth Edition

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  • Author: Martin Hallett
  • Publisher: Broadview Press
  • ISBN: 1460407075
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 538

This bestselling anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 54 stories, 9 critical articles, and 24 color illustrations from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. Accessible critical selections provide a foundation for readers to analyze, debate, and interpret the tales for themselves. An expanded introduction by the editors looks at the history of folk and fairy tales and distinguishes between the genres, while revised introductions to individual sections provide more detailed history of particular tellers and tales, paying increased attention to the background and cultural origin of each tale. This new edition includes a larger selection of critical articles (including pieces by J.R.R. Tolkien and Marina Warner), more modern and cross-cultural variations on classic tales (including stories by Neil Gaiman and Emma Donoghue), and an expanded selection of color illustrations.


Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales

Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Claire Booss
  • Publisher: Gramercy
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 696

A collection of folk literature from five countries, with illustrations by native artists.


Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

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  • Author: Katherine Langrish
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781911122043
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304


Womenfolk and Fairy Tales

Womenfolk and Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Rosemary Minard
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 9780395202760
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 163

This collection of folk and fairy tales has the theme of a girl or women who is the moving force in each story.


Russian Legends, Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Russian Legends, Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Patty Wageman
  • Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

"Legends, folk tales and fairy tales all had a profound impact on Russian painting of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Russian artists who dealt with these subjects chose sometimes to paint large canvases in which the greatness and grandeur of the Russian countryside fuses with the magical world of the imagination. The paintings of Viktor Vasnetsov, Nikolai Roerikh, and Mikhail Vrubel, the illustrations of Ivan Bilibin and Elena Polenova, and the works of Vasily Kandinsky register most impressively the worlds of fantasy and the imagination." "This book presents more than 90 illustrations of these fascinating works, while the essays shed interesting light on how these stories contributed to and influenced the visual arts. The book also contains summaries of the fairy tales depicted in these paintings, whereby the reader is given an overview of the major Russian folk tales."--BOOK JACKET.


Fairy Tales Transformed?

Fairy Tales Transformed?

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  • Author: Cristina Bacchilega
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
  • ISBN: 081433928X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

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 Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a "fairy-tale web" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century. Dealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults, Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine, their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems, and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres. Bacchilega begins by assessing changes in contemporary understandings and adaptations of the Euro-American fairy tale since the 1970s, and introduces the fairy-tale web as a network of reading and writing practices with a long history shaped by forces of gender politics, capitalism, and colonialism. In the chapters that follow, Bacchilega considers a range of texts, from high profile films like Disney's Enchanted, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard to literary adaptations like Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, and Bill Willingham's popular comics series, Fables. She looks at the fairy-tale web from a number of approaches, including adaptation as "activist response" in Chapter 1, as remediation within convergence culture in Chapter 2, and a space of genre mixing in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 connects adaptation with issues of translation and stereotyping to discuss mainstream North American adaptations of The Arabian Nights as "media text" in post-9/11 globalized culture. Bacchilega's epilogue invites scholars to intensify their attention to multimedia fairy-tale traditions and the relationship of folk and fairy tales with other cultures' wonder genres. Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.


StoryTime STEM: Folk & Fairy Tales

StoryTime STEM: Folk & Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Immacula A. Rhodes
  • Publisher: Teaching Resources
  • ISBN: 9781338316971
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Children investigate ways to help the Gingerbread Man cross the river, build a wolf-proof fence for Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, and more.


Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Jón Árnason
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fairy tales
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

Collection of popular Icelandic folk and fairy tales translated into English. Arranged under three headings: elves and trolls, ghosts and sorcerers, and miscellaneous tales.


The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales

The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: Hackett Publishing
  • ISBN: 1624660347
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 754

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the period of the Golden Age of folk and fairy tales, when European folklorists sought to understand and redefine the present through the common tales of the past, and long neglected stories became recognized as cultural treasures. In this rich collection, distinguished expert of fairy tales Jack Zipes continues his lifelong exploration of the story-telling tradition with a focus on the Golden Age. Included are one hundred eighty-two tales--many available in English for the first time--grouped into eighteen tale types. Zipes provides an engaging general Introduction that discusses the folk and fairy tale tradition, the impact of the Brothers Grimm, and the significance of categorizing tales into various types. Short introductions to each tale type that discuss its history, characteristics, and variants provide readers with important background information. Also included are annotations, short biographies of folklorists of the period, and a substantial bibliography. Eighteen original art works by students of the art department of Anglia Ruskin University not only illustrate the eighteen tale types, but also provide delightful—and sometimes astonishing—21st-century artistic interpretations of them.