Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

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Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of fairy tales as narratives offering heteronormative happy...

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context...

Lucy Fraser's The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid" explores Japanese and English transformations of Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 Danish fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by focusing on...

The witch, the vampire and the werewolf endure as popular characters in modern horror. These "old monsters" have their origins in the writings of Aristotle as studied in the universities of medieval Europe, where 13th-century scholars reconciled works of...

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In Hans Christian Andersen in American Literary Criticism of the Nineteenth Century, Herbert Rowland argues that the literary criticism accompanying the publication of Hans Christian Andersen’s works in the United States compares favorably in scope,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985159233Author Jeana JorgensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Fox Folk PressPublisher Fox Folk PressWeight(grams) 544g

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This unabridged edition of these famous tales, marvelous for their graceful impudence and sly artistry, has been re-edited and revised by Ernest Boyd so as to bring it as close as possible to the original. "In his preface," wrote Professor...

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This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The...

It is often assumed that the female characters found in popular folk and fairy tales are little more than inconsequential stereotypes--mostly serving as hapless victims in need of rescue, boring one-dimensional princesses, or egotistical and conniving...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985159240Author Jeana JorgensenFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Fox Folk PressPublisher Fox Folk PressWeight(grams) 712g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621382652Author Samuel D FohrFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Philosophia PerennisPublisher Philosophia PerennisWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

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Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013290541Author Soso ThamFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives...

Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up...

Every culture in the world has a version of the story of Cinderella. Surveying thousands of tellings of what is perhaps the most popular fairy tale of all time, this critical examination explores how the famous folk heroine embodies common societal...

Myth evolved into Western theater in fifth-century Athens, B.C. when mythical content and dramatic form served both as a reflection of the social structure and a record of changing ideologies characteristic of that society. In Jacobean England, more...

Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as ""pantomime"" was part of a shared...

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture,...

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Grounded in the intellectual legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry (1902-1935) and Albert Lord (1912-1991), Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century gathers reflections on what the study of oral poetry might mean today...