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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA dutiful daughter disguises herself as a knight and takes up the sword to protect her father's noble reputation and her king's realm. Whether we think of the Chinese or French iterations of maiden warrior tales, the...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedInklings. By Francoise Petrovitch. FIAF Gallery, New York. April 27-June 29, 2012. Exhibition. The paintings of Francoise Petrovitch's New York debut feel like childhood memories. Simplified forms melt and...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the early stages of their collecting and editing, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm had concerns that the fairy tale was on the verge of extinction. If those concerns followed them to the grave, the brothers can now rest in...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedInvited to reflect on the subject of war and the fairy tale for a panel at the 2011 American Folklore Association meeting, my mind went immediately to a phenomenon I noticed a few years ago, when research on British...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFollowing the premiere of Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, dir. William Cottrell and David Hand), New York Times film critic Frank S. Nugent hailed the film as...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Little Red Riding Hood" (ATU 333), a deceptively simple narrative about a young girl and her grandmother who are beset by a wolf and sometimes rescued by a woodsman, has been adapted by a plethora of creators. The...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSubmissions of 5,000-7,500 words should be submitted for consideration through the Marvels & Tales website, available at http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/. Submissions should be accompanied by a separate file...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRepresentations of writers in popular film contribute to a paratextual dimension that shapes the production and reception of their compositions. (1) A paratext encompasses those elements of a creative work that surround...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA brief anecdote to begin: I had just watched the Hollywood movie G.I. Jane, featuring an amazingly buff Demi Moore, for the first time just before Donald Haase wrote to suggest the topic "Fantasies of War" for the...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFairy-tale studies are made especially interesting by the controversies that inevitably accompany them. Accordingly, Marvels & Tales will publish critical exchanges between readers and authors. Concise, professional...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMarvels & Tales is a peer-reviewed journal of fairy-tale studies. International and multidisciplinary in orientation, the journal publishes rigorous scholarly work dealing with the fairy tale in any of its diverse...