LITERARY CRITICISM / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
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Appropriated Tales
Publication Date: November 2025
Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths a new framework for studies of Disney fairy tales and how they shape popular culture.
Specters of the Marvelous
Publication Date: December 2024
Here, Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth.
Relief After Hardship
Publication Date: February 2024
This fascinating compilation of tales is being presented for the first time to an English language audience along with a comprehensive survey of its history, as well as detailed summaries and extensive comparative annotations to the tales that will be of interest to literature and folklore scholars.
The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature
Publication Date: November 2023
This innovative reframing of early modern Musar texts reveals a new history of Jewish folklore and a new way to read those texts.
Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Publication Date: August 2023
Beyond the content of these individual stories, Wang ties these narratives together across time using cognitive literary criticism, especially affective narratology, to shed new light on the adaptation of literary and cultural texts and their sociopolitical contexts.
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.
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space
Publication Date: April 2021
Students and scholars of fairy-tale and media studies will welcome this fresh approach.
Inviting Interruptions
Publication Date: February 2021
As we make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales—and their critical analyses—will continue to interest and enchant general audiences, students, and scholars.
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
Publication Date: October 2020
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies—which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students—considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the...
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.
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
Publication Date: August 2020
Readers will find inspiration and new directions in the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to fairy tales provided by Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale.
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
Publication Date: August 2020
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.
The Broken Spell
Publication Date: June 2019
The Broken Spell will appeal to scholars of folklore and fairy-tale studies, comparative literature, South Asian studies, and any reader with an interest in India and Pakistan.
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.
Staging Fairyland
Publication Date: December 2018
Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children's literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.
Things People Say about Detroit
Publication Date: November 2018
Through the awareness of these opinions, and remarks, the story of Detroit, its history, its ingenuity, and its contributions to the world are better understood and appreciated.
The Lake Michigan Mermaid
Publication Date: March 2018
As it explores family relationships and generational bonds, this book is an unforgettable experience that aims to connect readers of all ages.
Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin
Publication Date: February 2018
This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.
Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel
Publication Date: February 2018
In contrast to most anthologies of Jewish folktales, the texts in this book were recorded in the natural context of narration and in the language of origin (Judaeo-Arabic), meeting the most vigorous standards of current folklore scholarship.
The Pleasures of Metamorphosis
Publication Date: June 2017
Few studies have examined Japanese fairy-tale transformations to the extent that Fraser has, presenting fascinating information that will intrigue fairy-tale scholars and those wanting to learn more about the representation of pleasure behind the imaginative and fantastical.
Fairy Tales and Feminism
Publication Date: August 2004
Framed by a critical survey of feminist fairy-tale scholarship and an extensive bibliography-the most comprehensive listing of women-centered fairy-tale research ever assembled-Fairy Tales and Feminism is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of fairy tales and feminism.
