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Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters

Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy

Cathy Yue Wang

Politics and paradigm shifts underlying contemporary retellings of fantastic traditional Chinese tales.

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Published: August 2023
ISBN: 9780814348635
$94.99
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Published: August 2023
ISBN: 9780814348628
$34.99
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Published: August 2023
ISBN: 9780814348642

The Enchanted Boot

Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Edited, Translated, and Introduced by Nancy L. Canepa

A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349205
$84.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814334751
$39.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349212

Women Writing Wonder

An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales

Edited and Translated by Julie L. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, Anne E. Duggan, and Adrion Dula

Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.

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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345009
$92.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345016
$36.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345023
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Mapping Fairy-Tale Space

Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales

Christy Williams

Examines how popular fairy tales collapse narrative borders and reimagine the genre for the twenty-first century.

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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814348277
$92.99
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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814343838
$32.99
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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814343845

Inviting Interruptions

Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme

Fairy-tale texts and images that address contemporary issues in unsettling, intersectional, and wondrous ways.

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Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814346990
$92.99
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Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814347003
$32.99
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Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814347010

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies

Fairy-Tale Film Truths

Pauline Greenhill

Exploration of fairy-tale movies that blur the line between reality and magic.

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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814347829
$84.99
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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814342220
$32.99
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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814342237

Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales

Edited by Jack Zipes

A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland’s unique nineteenth-century tales.

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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347867
$82.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347850
$32.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347874

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale

Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures

Edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi

New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.

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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814345351
$84.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814345368
$34.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814345375
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101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition

Ulrich Marzolph

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347744
$99.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347737
$49.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347751

The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim

By Christian Bärmann
Translated and edited by Jack Zipes

The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim is an extraordinary discovery of a 1924 illustrated fairy-tale book by Christian Bärmann which will bring hope and joy to readers of all ages.

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Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780578458496
$25.00

The Broken Spell

Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu

Pasha M. Khan

Reconstructs Indian storytellers’ lives and performance methods while recovering the marginalized worldview that popularized their art form.

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Published: June 2019
ISBN: 9780814345986
$84.99
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Published: June 2019
ISBN: 9780814345993
$32.99
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Published: June 2019
ISBN: 9780814346006

Craving Supernatural Creatures

German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture

Claudia Schwabe

Analyzes the portrayal of German fairy-tale figures in contemporary North American media adaptations.

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Published: June 2019
ISBN: 9780814346013
$84.99
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Published: June 2019
ISBN: 9780814341964
$32.99
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Published: June 2019
ISBN: 9780814341971

A True Blue Idea

Marina Colasanti
Translated by Adria Frizzi

A modern classic comprising spare and surprising tales by one of Latin America's premier storytellers.

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346396
$24.99

Teaching Fairy Tales

Edited by Nancy L. Canepa

Pedagogical models and methodologies for engaging with fairy tales in the classroom.

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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814345696
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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814339350
$49.99
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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814339367

Staging Fairyland

Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime

Jennifer Schacker

Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale.

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Published: December 2018
ISBN: 9780814345917
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Published: December 2018
ISBN: 9780814345900
$29.99
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Published: December 2018
ISBN: 9780814345924

The Pleasures of Metamorphosis

Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"

Lucy Fraser

Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure.

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Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814342442
$34.99
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Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814342459

Fairy Tale Review

The Translucent Issue #13

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

The thirteenth issue of Fairy Tale Review, The Translucent Issue allows room for the unseen, the obscured, the imagined, and the intuited.

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Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814343975

Mother Goose Refigured

A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales

Christine A. Jones

Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.

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Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814338926
$31.99
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Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814338933

Fairy Tale Review

The Ochre Issue #12

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

The Ochre Issue, the twelfth issue of Fairy Tale Review, features fiction and poetry with fairy tale aesthetics.

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Published: June 2016
ISBN: 9780814342893

Cinderella across Cultures

New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, Monika Wozniak

Examines the tale of Cinderella as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions.

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Published: June 2016
ISBN: 9780814341551
$34.99
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Published: June 2016
ISBN: 9780814341568

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