Folklore

A state-of-the-art contribution to the scholarly discussion of historical, and especially ancient, Jewish folklore.

A pioneering look at portrayals of disability, deformity, and disease in the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales within a sociohistorical framework and from a disability studies perspective.

Investigates a wide range of fairy tales on television, stretching into the twenty-first century and across the world.

Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction.

Investigates early twenty-first-century fairy-tale transformations to explore the politics and poetics of adaptation.

Contributors explore alternative readings and queer possibilities of the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM, Children's and Household Tales).

Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.

The first systematic approach to the parallels between fairy-tale retellings and fairy-tale theory.

Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.