The Fairy Tellers
Title | The Fairy Tellers PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Jubber |
Publisher | Nicholas Brealey |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2022-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1529389259 |
‘A carnival of a book, rigorously researched and jostling with life’ —Amy Jeffs, author of Storyland Who were the Fairy Tellers? In this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Baba Yaga’. From the Middle Ages to the birth of modern children’s literature, they include a German apothecary’s daughter, a Syrian youth running away from a career in the souk and a Russian dissident embroiled in a plot to kill the tsar. Following these and other unlikely protagonists, we travel from the steaming cities of Italy and the Levant, under the dark branches of the Black Forest, deep into the tundra of Siberia and across the snowy fells of Lapland. In the process, we discover a fresh perspective on some of our most frequently told stories. Filled with adventure, tragedy and real-world magic, this bewitching book uncovers the stranger lives behind the strangest of tales.
The Red Indian Fairy Book for the Children's Own Reading and for Story-tellers
Title | The Red Indian Fairy Book for the Children's Own Reading and for Story-tellers PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Jenkins Olcott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Folklore, Indian |
ISBN |
From the Beast to the Blonde
Title | From the Beast to the Blonde PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Warner |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 492 |
Release | 1996-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780374524876 |
In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge in romancing?
The Science of Fairy Tales
Title | The Science of Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Sidney Hartland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
A Companion to the Fairy Tale
Title | A Companion to the Fairy Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson |
Publisher | DS Brewer |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781843840817 |
This title discusses the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation.
Once Upon a Time
Title | Once Upon a Time PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Warner |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2014-10-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191028770 |
From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant us and rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over a long writing life, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Her book makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.
Teaching Fairy Tales
Title | Teaching Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy L. Canepa |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | 501 |
Release | 2019-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0814339360 |
Pedagogical models and methodologies for engaging with fairy tales in the classroom.