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From: Journal of American Folklore[(essay date Winter 1991) Dundes is an American instructor of English, anthropology, and folklore whose works include Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture through Folklore (1984), and Parsing...
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From: Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Susina explores how Block's depiction of her native Los Angeles in Weetzie Bat combines aspects of both realism and magic-laden fantasy, invoking critic Walter Benjamin's...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In discussions of fairy-tale retellings, the concept of intertextuality is often introduced to explain the relationship between a retelling and the traditional fairy tale(s) to which it refers. (1)...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedForests to the northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out of which fairy stories (or, as they are perhaps better called in...
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From: Horn Book Magazine[(essay date January-February 2001) In the following essay, Hearn outlines the critical difficulties that Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz encountered from several vocal opponents--particularly librarians--who disliked...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGiven three days to guess the name of the diminutive figure who spun straw into gold for her and now claims her child, the miller's daughter in the Grimms' "Rumpelstilzchen"--or, as known in English,...
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From: Marvels & Tales[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Briggs studies Andersen's reception in England and his impact on English authors and literature.] "The Flying Trunk" is a story about the effects of storytelling, and in this...
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From: Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand
[(essay date 1979) An American writer and educator, Zipes is the author of The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood (1983) and Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the... -
From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 19 November 2000) In the following review, Hearne compliments Block's ability to cast classic fairy stories in dramatic contemporary contexts in The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold, noting the...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTranslators' Introduction Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-2005) was, for more than four decades, one of Japan's most innovative and original writers. Acclaimed for her political satire, experimental novels, and fantastic...
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From: Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Group on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association[(essay date 1977) In the following excerpt, Heisig disputes many of Bettelheim's conclusions in The Uses of Enchantment but notes that Bettelheim “probably does more for the respectability of the fairy tale as an...
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From: Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies[(review date 2001) In the following review, Susina faults Block's unimaginative and pedestrian prose in The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold, arguing that the stories are "the most literal reworkings of fairy...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTranslator's Introduction Elected to the French Academy in 1896 and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921, Anatole France (1844-1924) was one of the most prominent writers and critics of France's Third...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor several years, I have taught a course on Approaches to the French Fairy Tale for our Freshman Seminar program at Vanderbilt University. As many Marvels & Tales readers who teach similar classes can relate, a course...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 30 October 1756, in one of the many letters that passed between them, Lady Ailesbury told her old friend Horace Walpole: "Missy is sitting by throwing all the ink and sand about, and tormenting me to death to read...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Marina Warner, in her monumental study From the Beast to the Blond, tells of a long, long tradition, perhaps one that has been around as long as human beings, of women as the bearers of popular tales....
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn spite of Vasilii Shukshin's multifaceted talent as author, film director, and actor, he has been described simply as a narodnyi rasskazchik ('folk storyteller'). Until the Cock Crows Thrice, a modern-day fairy tale,...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores how and why Andersen fairy tales could be taught at school in new multimodal ways that reflect 21st century networked, digital and popular culture. Based on social semiotic theory and Dewey's...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe work of the Japanese artist Yanagi Miwa (1967-) explores received images of women and their own self-images in contemporary society, particularly through the reconfiguration of the intergenerational relationship...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1889 Andrew Lang edited a volume of fairy tales titled The Blue Fairy Book, published by Longmans, Green, and Company. Because of the success of this book, Longmans published eleven subsequent volumes, all identified...