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• Shashthi's land: folk nursery rhyme in Abanindranath Tagore's 'The Condensed-Milk Doll.'.

  Author:Sanjay SircarFrom:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 31, 196911,372 words Article Kunstmarchen (art fairytales) are everybody's business, and so no one's, for Kunstmarchen studies fall uneasily between the areas of folklore and folktale, on the one hand, and fantasy fiction and children's literature...

• Little Brown Sanjay and Little Black Sambo: Childhood Reading, Adult Rereading; Colonial Text and Postcolonial Reception

  From: Lion and the Unicorn

  Jan. 200410,337 words Critical essay [(essay date January 2004) In the following essay, Sircar reviews some of the controversial textual aspects of Bannerman's Little Black Sambo from a South Asian perspective, asserting that the controversies surrounding...

• An Annotated Chhara-Punthi: Nursery Rhymes from Bengal.

  Author:Sanjay SircarFrom:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 19979,706 words Article This article provides translations of and commentary on folk nursery rhymes from Bengal, drawing on various printed texts. The rhymes include songs of sleep, rhymes of mother love, verses on the doings of a generic...

• Classic Fantasy Novel as Didactic Victorian Bildungsroman: The Cuckoo Clock

  From: Lion and the Unicorn

  Apr. 199712,411 words Critical essay [(essay date April 1997) In the following essay, Sircar details the psychological development and moral education of the principal character Griselda in The Cuckoo Clock.] Novels for children often partake of general...

• E. Nesbit's 'The Magician's Heart,' New Comedy and the Burlesque Kunstmärchen

  From: Marvels and Tales

  May 19956,148 words Critical essay [(essay date May 1995) In the following essay, Sircar points to E. Nesbit's short story "The Magician's Heart" as being derived from the German burlesque Kunstmärchen tradition, albeit with aspects of the English New...

• A Note on "Pantouflia"

  Author:Sanjay SircarFrom:Folklore (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2000161 words Brief article, Correction notice On page 82 of my recent article "The Generic Decorum of the Burlesque Kunstmarchen," Folklore 110 (1999):75-92, I stated that Lang's Pantouflia was a portmanteau of "pantomime" and "souffle." Mrs Maureen Crago has since...

• My Career Goes Bung: Genre-Parody, Australianness and Anglophilia

  Author:Sanjay SircarFrom:Connotations (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  May 19989,363 words Article Miles Franklin (1879-1954) entered the Australian canon with her first novel, the realist, nationalist, feminist-"revisioning," autobiographically-based first-person My Brilliant Career (Career; 1901, filmed 1979). She...

• Locating a Classic: The Cuckoo Clock in Its Literary Context

  From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly

  Winter 19966,847 words Critical essay [(essay date winter 1996-1997) In the following essay, Sircar surveys Molesworth's contribution to the English juvenile fantasy tradition and asserts that The Cuckoo Clock is the "first major full-length English juvenile...

• The Victorian Auntly Narrative Voice and Mrs. Molesworth's Cuckoo Clock

  From: Children's Literature

  198910,015 words Critical essay [(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Sircar explores the variety and intricacy of Molesworth's narrative strategy in The Cuckoo Clock.] Much Victorian work for children addresses its audience in a special way,...

• The Generic Decorum of the Burlesque Kunstmarchen: E. Nesbit's "The Magician's Heart"

  Author:Sanjay SircarFrom:FolklorePeer-Reviewed

  Annual 199914,166 words Critical essay Abstract The formal features of folktale may sometimes be found elaborated in that part of the "literature of art" which works with folk literature, while other features may generically differentiate the two. This...