FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
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The Enchanted Boot
Publication Date: November 2022
The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.
Women Writing Wonder
Publication Date: October 2021
Duggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground women writers' important contributions to the genre and to challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale is for scholars, students, and general readers.
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
Publication Date: September 2020
Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated glimpse into a breadth of work.
Craving Supernatural Creatures
Publication Date: June 2019
Craving Supernatural Creatures is a unique contribution to the field of fairy-tale studies and is essential reading for students, scholars, and pop-culture aficionados alike.
A True Blue Idea
Publication Date: April 2019
A True Blue Idea is intended for everyone—from the general reader of any age to scholars and students of fairy-tale studies, Latin American literature, and women's studies.
Teaching Fairy Tales
Publication Date: March 2019
Scholars from many different academic areas will use this volume to explore and implement new aspects of the field of fairy-tale studies in their teaching and research.
Tales in Context
Publication Date: November 2017
The tales in Sefer ha-ma'asim will be of special value to scholars of folklore and medieval European history and literature, as well as those looking to enrich their studies and shelves.
Mother Goose Refigured
Publication Date: November 2016
Designed for scholars, their classrooms, and other adult readers of fairy tales, Mother Goose Refigured promises to inspire new academic interpretations of the Mother Goose tales, particularly among readers who do not have access to the original French and have relied for their critical inquiries on traditional renderings of the...
Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
Publication Date: April 2016
This volume is vital reading for fairy-tale scholars and anyone interested in cultural history.
Erotic Infidelities
Publication Date: December 2014
Situated at the intersection of feminist, psychoanalytic, literary, and fairy-tale studies, readers interested in a variety of scholarly disciplines as well as scholars of Carter's tales will enjoy Lau's look at enduring questions of gender, sexuality, and desire.
Fairy Tales Transformed?
Publication Date: November 2013
Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.
Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World
Publication Date: January 2013
This unique anthology contributes to cross-cultural exchange and facilitates comparative study of the tale for readers interested in fairy-tale studies, cultural studies, and literary history.
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Publication Date: September 2012
An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.
Marvelous Geometry
Publication Date: April 2009
Scholars of literary and fairy-tale studies will enjoy Tiffin's expansive analysis.
Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale
Publication Date: June 2008
Students and teachers of fiction, folklore, and fairy-tale studies will appreciate this insightful volume.
Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale
Publication Date: January 2001
It will serve as a useful reference point for other readers who wish to learn more about the fairy tales written by this dynamic author.
His Very Silence Speaks
Publication Date: May 1989
Lawrence illuminates Comanche's significance through the many symbolic roles he has assumed at different times and for various groups of people, and reveals much about the ways in which symbols operate in human thought and the manner in which legends develop.
Lovecraft
Publication Date: March 1988
It is this view of Lovecraft the writer, the thinker, and the man that sets Lévy's work apart from any Lovecraft criticism.
