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Fitcher's Brides

Author	: Gregory Frost
Publisher	: Macmillan
Release Date	: 2003-12-01
ISBN 10	: 9781466821576
Pages	: 400 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (215 users)

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Download or read book Fitcher's Brides written by Gregory Frost and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth 1843 is the "last year of the world," according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's Glen, where the faithful wait, work, and pray for the world to end. Vernelia, Amy, and Catherine Charter are the three young townswomen whose father falls under the Reverend Fitcher's hypnotic sway. In their old house, where ghostly voices whisper from the walls, the girls are ruled by their stepmother, who is ruled in turn by the fiery preacher. Determined to spend Eternity as a married man, Fitcher casts his eye on Vernelia, and before much longer the two are wed. But living on the man's estate, separated from her family, Vern soon learns the extent of her husband's dark side. It's rumored that he's been married before, though what became of those wives she does not know. Perhaps the secret lies in the locked room at the very top of the house—the single room that the Reverend Fitcher has forbidden to her. Inspired by the classic fairy tales "Bluebeard" and "The Fitcher Bird," this dark fantasy is set in New York State's "Burned-Over District," at its time of historic religious ferment. All three Charter sisters will play their part in the story of Fitcher's Utopia: a story of faith gone wrong, and evil countered by one brave, true soul. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Transgressive Tales

Author	: Kay Turner
Publisher	: Wayne State University Press
Release Date	: 2012-10-15
ISBN 10	: 9780814338100
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (381 users)

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Download or read book Transgressive Tales written by Kay Turner and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitized, and bowdlerized the tales, publishing the seventh and final edition in 1857 with many of the sexual implications removed. However, the contributors in Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms demonstrate that the Grimms and other collectors paid less attention to ridding the tales of non-heterosexual implications and that, in fact, the Grimms' tales are rich with queer possibilities. Editors Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill introduce the volume with an overview of the tales' literary and interpretive history, surveying their queerness in terms of not just sex, gender and sexuality, but also issues of marginalization, oddity, and not fitting into society. In three thematic sections, contributors then consider a range of tales and their queer themes. In Faux Femininities, essays explore female characters, and their relationships and feminine representation in the tales. Contributors to Revising Rewritings consider queer elements in rewritings of the Grimms' tales, including Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Jeanette Winterson's Twelve Dancing Princesses, and contemporary reinterpretations of both "Snow White" and "Snow White and Rose Red." Contributors in the final section, Queering the Tales, consider queer elements in some of the Grimms' original tales and explore intriguing issues of gender, biology, patriarchy, and transgression. With the variety of unique perspectives in Transgressive Tales, readers will find new appreciation for the lasting power of the fairy-tale genre. Scholars of fairy-tale studies and gender and sexuality studies will enjoy this thought-provoking volume.

Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World, 2nd Edition [4 volumes]

Author	: Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2016-02-12
ISBN 10	: 9781610692540
Pages	: 1590 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (925 users)

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Download or read book Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World, 2nd Edition [4 volumes] written by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D. and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. • Provides encyclopedic coverage of folktales and fairy tales from around the globe • Covers not only the history of the fairy tale, but also topics of contemporary importance such as the fairy tale in manga, television, pop music, and music videos • Brings together the study of geography, culture, history, and anthropology • Revises and expands an award-winning work to now include a full volume of selected tales and texts

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy

Author	: Jude Roberts
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-06-03
ISBN 10	: 9781317130543
Pages	: 202 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (35 users)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy written by Jude Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and multi-player online role-play games, novels and short stories, comics, manga and graphic novels, and board games. Engaging directly with an enormously successful popular genre which is often overlooked by literary and cultural criticism, contributors pay close attention to the ways in which the producers of fantasy texts, whether visual, game, cinematic, graphic or literary texts, are able to play with gender and sexuality, to challenge and disrupt received notions and to allow and encourage their audiences to imagine ways of being outside of the constitutive constraints of socialized gender and sexual identity. With rich case studies from the US, Australia, UK, Japan and Europe, all concentrating not on the critique of fantasy texts which duplicate or reinforce existing prejudices about gender and sexuality, but on examining the exploration of or attempt to make possible non-normative gendered and sexual identities, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, with interests in popular culture, fantasy, media studies and gender and sexualities.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales

Author	: Donald Haase
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 0313334412
Pages	: 438 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (12 users)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales written by Donald Haase and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides alphabetically arranged entries on folk and fairy tales from around the world, including information on authors, subjects, themes, characters, and national traditions.

Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics

Author	: Sharon Rose Wilson
Publisher	: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: 161703424X
Pages	: 470 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics written by Sharon Rose Wilson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Authors

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 0787678929
Pages	: 474 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (29 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.

Once upon a Time

Author	: Sarah A. Appleton
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2009-10-02
ISBN 10	: 9781443814669
Pages	: 190 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (146 users)

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Download or read book Once upon a Time written by Sarah A. Appleton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is often acknowledged that Margaret Atwood's novels are rife with allusions from the oral tradition of myth, legends, fables, and fairy tales, the implications of her liberal usage bear study. The essays in this volume have been written by some of the most influential Margaret Atwood scholars internationally, each exploring Atwood’s use of primal, indeed archetypal, narratives to illuminate her fiction and poetry. These essays interact with all types of such narratives, from fairy tales and legends, to Greek, Roman, Biblical, and pagan mythologies, to contemporary processes of myth and tale creation. And, as the works in this collection demonstrate, Atwood’s use of myths and fairy tales allows for an abundance of old, yet fresh material for contemporary readers. By reconciling, yet by also revisioning, the archetypal motifs, characters, and narratives, Atwood’s writings present a familiar, yet unique, reading experience.

Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale

Author	: Stephen Benson
Publisher	: Wayne State University Press
Release Date	: 2008-06-16
ISBN 10	: 9780814335826
Pages	: 216 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (358 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale written by Stephen Benson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.

Cooking by the Book

Author	: Mary Anne Schofield
Publisher	: Popular Press
Release Date	: 1989
ISBN 10	: 0879724439
Pages	: 248 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (39 users)

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Download or read book Cooking by the Book written by Mary Anne Schofield and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here explore the power and sensuality that food engenders within literature. The book permits the reader to sample food as a rhetorical structure, one that allows the individual writers to articulate the abstract concepts in a medium that is readily understandable. The second part of Cooking by the Book turns to the more diverse food rhetorics of the marketplace. What, for example, is the fast food rhetoric? Why are there so many eating disorders in our society? Is it possible to teach philosophy through cookery? How long has vegetarianism been popular?

The Fairytale and Plot Structure

Author	: Terence Patrick Murphy
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2015-08-24
ISBN 10	: 9781137547088
Pages	: 204 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (47 users)

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Download or read book The Fairytale and Plot Structure written by Terence Patrick Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of fiction, including short stories, dramatic texts and Hollywood screenplays.

Secrets Beyond the Door

Author	: Maria Tatar
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0691117071
Pages	: 276 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (71 users)

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Download or read book Secrets Beyond the Door written by Maria Tatar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.

Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales

Author	: Marie-Louise von Franz
Publisher	: Chiron Publications
Release Date	: 2022-02-28
ISBN 10	: 9781685030438
Pages	: 520 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (34 users)

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Download or read book Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales written by Marie-Louise von Franz and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28 volume Magnum Opus from one of the leading minds in Jungian Psychology. Volume 3 turns to the Maiden’s Quest within fairytales. The maiden/heroine navigates a complicated maze of inner and outer relationships as she builds a bridge to the unconscious. The heroine contends with the animus in many forms like a devouring and incestuous father, demonic groom, the beautiful prince, an androgenous mother, a cold dark tower, and through conflict with the evil stepmother. Dangers and pitfalls await her as the conscious feminine strives to make connections with the unconscious masculine. The maiden is the undeveloped feminine and the promised fruit of her struggle with the animus is the coniunctio. Volume 3 is a masterwork of cross-cultural scholarship, penetrating psychological insight, and a strikingly illuminating treatise. With her usual perspicacity and thoroughness, von Franz gathers countless fairytale motifs revealing a myriad of facets to the maiden’s quest.

Margaret Atwood

Author	: Margaret Atwood
Publisher	: SIU Press
Release Date	: 1988
ISBN 10	: 0809314088
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood written by Margaret Atwood and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific writer and versatile social critic, Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood has recently published Bluebeard’s Egg (short stories), Interlunar (poetry), and The Handmaid’s Tale a critically acclaimed best-selling novel. This international collection of essays evaluates the complete body of her work—both the acclaimed fiction and the innovative poetry. The critics represented here—American, Australian, and Canadian—address Atwood’s handling of such themes as feminism, ecology, the gothic novel, and the political relationship between Canada and the United States. The essays on Atwood’s novels introduce the general reader to her development as a writer, as she matures from a basically subjective, poetic vision, seen in Surfacing and The Edible Woman, to an increasingly engaged, political stance, exemplified by The Handmaid’s Tale. Other essays examine Atwood’s poetry, from her transformation of the Homeric model to her criticisms of the United States’ relationship with Canada. The last two critical essays offer a unique view of Atwood through an investigation of her use of the concept of shamanism and through a presentation of eight of her vivid watercolors. The volume ends with Atwood presenting her own views in an interview with Jan Garden Castro and in a conversation between Atwood and students at the University of Tampa, Florida.

The Complete Fairy Tales

Author	: The Brothers Grimm
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-04-30
ISBN 10	: 9781407091068
Pages	: 1072 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales written by The Brothers Grimm and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing, wise and sometimes beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries. The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation. Now featuring an introduction from translator Jack Zipes.

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

Author	: Jack Zipes
Publisher	: Bantam
Release Date	: 2003-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9780553897401
Pages	: 800 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (974 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition written by Jack Zipes and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German edition, as well as narratives uncovered in the brothers’ letters and papers. Truly the most comprehensive translation to date, this critically acclaimed edition recaptures the fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be: rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with folklore and song. One of the world’s experts on children’s literature, Jack Zipes is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota and is the author of numerous books on folklore and fairy tales.

Bluebeard

Author	: Casie Hermansson
Publisher	: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: 9781604733532
Pages	: 321 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (335 users)

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Download or read book Bluebeard written by Casie Hermansson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales . Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like Mr. Fox, native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.