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1  Marvelous Geometry

Marvelous Geometry
Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale

By Jessica Tiffin
Published 2009
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814332627

Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.

2  Red Riding Hood for All Ages

Red Riding Hood for All Ages
A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts

By Sandra L. Beckett
Published 2008
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814333068

A global study of modern adaptations for readers of all ages of Little Red Riding Hood.

3  Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale

Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale
Edited by Stephen Benson
Published 2008
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814332542

Considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.

4  Some Day Your Witch Will Come

Some Day Your Witch Will Come
By Kay Stone
Published 2008
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814332863

Collects nearly thirty years of major work by noted writer and folklore scholar Kay Stone.

5  Brothers and Beasts

Brothers and Beasts
An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales

Edited by Kate Bernheimer
With a Foreword by Maria Tater and an Afterword by Jack Zipes
Published 2007
$15.95L (Paper) - 9780814332672

Breaks new ground in fairy-tale studies by offering male writers a chance to reflect on their relationships to fairy tales.

6  The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective

The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective
Edited by Ulrich Marzolph
Published 2007
$31.95s (Paper) - 9780814332870

The follow-up to The Arabian Nights Reader, this volume investigates the transnational features of the Arabian Nights.

7  Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
Ed/Trans by Nancy L. Canepa
Foreword by Jack Zipes
Illustrated by Carmelo Lettere
Published 2007
$34.95s (Paper) - 9780814328668

The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile’s monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.

8  The Arabian Nights Reader

The Arabian Nights Reader
Edited by Ulrich Marzolph
Published 2006
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814332597

An authoritative guide to research inspired by the Arabian Nights, containing sixteen influential essays.

9  Fairy Tales and Feminism

Fairy Tales and Feminism
New Approaches

Edited by Donald Haase
Published 2004
$29.95s (Paper) - 9780814330302

Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.

10  Pregnant Fictions

Pregnant Fictions
Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France

By Holly Tucker
Published 2003
$36.95s (Cloth) - 9780814330425

Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early-modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered "truths" at a key moment in the history of ideas.

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