The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
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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.
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.
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.
Staging Fairyland
Publication Date: December 2018
Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children's literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.
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.
Cinderella Across Cultures
Publication Date: June 2016
Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.
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.
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales
Publication Date: April 2011
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales offers many insights into the workings of fiction and criticism that will appeal to fairy-tale scholars, literature scholars, and general readers interested in intertextuality and fairy tales.
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.
Reading, Translating, Rewriting
Publication Date: November 2013
Reading, Translating, Rewriting is informative reading for students and teachers of fairy-tale studies and translation studies.
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...
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
Publication Date: November 2015
Fairy-tale scholars and readers interested in issues of literary and artistic adaptation will enjoy this volume.
Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws
Publication Date: September 2015
All readers interested in storytelling, fairy-tale history, and translation will treasure this beautiful collection.
The Politics of Magic
Publication Date: June 2015
Shen's study will be significant reading for teachers and students of folklore studies and for scholars of German, Eastern European, cultural, film, media, and gender studies.
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.
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.
Queer Enchantments
Publication Date: October 2013
Both film and fairy-tale studies scholars will enjoy Duggan's fresh look at the distinctive cinema of Jacques Demy.
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.
Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Publication Date: November 2014
Readers interested in fairy-tales studies and disability studies will appreciate this careful reading of the Grimms' tales.
Channeling Wonder
Publication Date: October 2014
Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.
A Trip to the Country
Publication Date: September 2011
Gethner and Stedman offer an accessible and informative translation of A Trip to the Country that will appeal to students and teachers of fairy-tale studies and those interested in the history of French literature.
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.
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.
Grimms' Tales Around the Globe
Publication Date: June 2014
Fairy-tale and folklore scholars as well as readers interested in literary history and translation will appreciate this enlightening volume.
Transgressive Tales
Publication Date: October 2012
Scholars of fairy-tale studies and gender and sexuality studies will enjoy this thought-provoking volume.
Marvelous Geometry
Publication Date: April 2009
Scholars of literary and fairy-tale studies will enjoy Tiffin's expansive analysis.
Brothers and Beasts
Publication Date: October 2007
Students and teachers of fairy-tale and gender studies along with readers of contemporary literature will enjoy this accessible and intriguing volume.
The Arabian Nights Reader
Publication Date: September 2006
The research presented here not only deepens our insight into this great work but heightens our awareness of the powerful communal forces of transnational narrative.
Some Day Your Witch Will Come
Publication Date: June 2008
As such, it will be informative and entertaining for both general readers and scholars in a variety of fields, including folklore and fairy-tale studies, women’s studies, psychology, cultural studies, and literature.
The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective
Publication Date: August 2007
In view of the tremendous impact of the Arabian Nights on Western creative imagination, this collection will appeal to literary scholars of many backgrounds.
