Staging Fairyland

Jennifer Schacker

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular an... Lees meer

Mapping Fairy-Tale Space

Christy Williams

• Hardcover | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. The book analyses contemporary ... Lees meer

Reading, Translating, Rewriting

Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction. Lees meer

Mapping Fairy-Tale Space

Christy Williams

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. The book analyses contemporary ... Lees meer

Craving Supernatural Creatures

Claudia Schwabe

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Analyses supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and Otherness with terror, distance, and ne... Lees meer

Fairy Tales Transformed?

Cristina Bacchilega

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Investigates early twenty-first-century fairy-tale transformations to explore the politics and poetics of adaptation. Lees meer

Some Day Your Witch Will Come

Kay Stone

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Contains nearly thirty years of work by a noted writer and folklore scholar. This book includes writings from her scholarly articles and books spannin... Lees meer

Relief after Hardship

Ulrich Marzolph

• Hardcover | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition. Lees meer

The Politics of Magic

Qinna Shen

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• From 1950 to 1989 East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteen... Lees meer

The Broken Spell

Pasha M. Khan

• Hardcover | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Explores the rise and fall in popularity of “romances” (qissah) - tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public ... Lees meer

Teaching Fairy Tales

• Hardcover | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Brings together scholars who have contributed to the field of fairy-tale studies since its origins. This collection offers information on materials, c... Lees meer

The Pleasures of Metamorphosis

Lucy Fraser

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure. Lees meer

Women Writing Wonder

• Hardcover | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• A translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century British... Lees meer

Staging Fairyland

Jennifer Schacker

• Hardcover | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular an... Lees meer

Inviting Interruptions

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of fairy tales as na... Lees meer

Cinderella across Cultures

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have re... Lees meer

Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales

• Paperback | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
• Jack Zipes has selected the tales in Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales from five different books and has arranged them thematically. What d... Lees meer