Folklore

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

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

Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.

The field notes of a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs, stories, and cultural history of Great Lakes sailors in the 1930s.

Provides a rich harvest of Jewish customs and traditional beliefs, gathered from all over the world and from ancient to modern times.

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

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.

The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile’s monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.

A richly illustrated collection of evocative animal stories that offers young adult and adult readers a new vision of the fairy-tale past.