The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Alison Lurie
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780192803832
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 455

This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.


The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Alison Lurie
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 492

This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.


The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Alison Lurie
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780192142184
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 480

A superb collection covering over 150 years of modern fairy tales. With tales from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Carl Sandburg, James Thurber, Louise Erdrich, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Ursula K. LeGuin, Native American and feminist writers, and others, this collection presents the modern-day world of the supernatural, mystical, moral, and reminds us that fairy tales are still very much alive.


The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Jack David Zipes
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780198605096
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 601

Essays discuss the history and development of fairy tales in cultures from all over the world and throughout history, including adaptation for film, art, opera, ballet, music, and commercial use.


The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

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  • Author: William Trevor
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 9780199583140
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation.


The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

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  • Author: Theodore William Goossen
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0192803727
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 486

Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.


Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction

Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction

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  • Author: Marina Warner
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0191060194
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant us and rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. In this Very Short Introduction, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in all their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Drawing on a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White, Warner forms a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.


The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

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  • Author: Joyce Carol Oates
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780195092622
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 788

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.


Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

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  • Author: Kurt Schwitters
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 9780691139678
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.


The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

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  • Author: Douglas Dunn
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0199556547
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 476

From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story.Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three early traditional tales, and including a wealth of writers from the last three centuries: amongst them Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and younger talents such as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A. L. Kennedy.