Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale
by Kimberly J. Lau
Series edited by Anne E. Duggan
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814341346
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
242 Pages
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.
The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days
by Ulrich Marzolph
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9780814351154
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
162 Pages
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.
Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy
by Cathy Yue Wang
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814348628
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
248 Pages
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 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.
An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales
Edited by Julie L.. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, Anne E. Duggan and Adrion Dula
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814345016
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
400 Pages
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.
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—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 environment.
Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated glimpse into a breadth of work.
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 is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.
Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu
by Pasha M. Khan
Price: $32.99
ISBN: 9780814345993
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2019
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
320 Pages
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.
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.
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.
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.
Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"
by Lucy Fraser
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814342442
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
816 Pages
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.
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.
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