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  • A Companion to the Fairy Tale

    Introduction by Derek Brewer.The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Fairy Godfather

    Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition

    In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Fairy Godfather

    Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition

    In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. ... Leer más

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  • Fairy Tales and Society

    Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm

    Edición de Ruth B. Bottigheimer ...
    This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Fairy Tales and Society

    Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm

    Edición de Ruth B. Bottigheimer ...
    This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Fairy Tales Framed

    Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words

    Edición de Ruth B. Bottigheimer ...
    Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleMost early fairy tale authors had a lot to say about what they wrote. Charles Perrault explained his sources and recounted friends' reactions. His niece Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier and her ... Leer más

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  • The Honest Courtesan

    Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

    The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, ... Leer más

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  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    de Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Leer más

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  • The Double

    A Psychoanalytic Study

    de Otto Rank ...
    Traducido por Harry Tucker Jr. ...
    Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death — actually the core of human existence. Rank’s book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature from Goethe to Oscar Wilde.Originally published in 1971.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC ... Leer más

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  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

    de Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society.As Jack ... Leer más

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  • The Secrets of Italy

    People, Places, and Hidden Histories

    Traducido por Alta L. Price ...
    One of Italy's best-known writers takes a Grand Tour through her cities, history, and literature in search of the true character of this contradictory nation. There is Michelangelo, but also the mafia. Pavarotti, but also Berlusconi. The debonair Milanese, but also the infamous captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. This is Italy, admired and reviled, a country that has guarded her secrets ... Leer más

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  • Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany

    Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

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    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both ... Leer más

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