Folklore

A systematic study of various factors in the international reception of Grimms’ fairy tales.

Collects more than fifty versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story from a wide range of countries and cultures.

Examines director Jacques Demy's use of the fairy tale as a means to explore issues of gender, sexuality, and class.

Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work The Russian Folktale.

Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.

A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community’s attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and Israel.

Stories of Joseph details this historical interdependence that reveals much about common experiences and concerns of Jews and Muslims.

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.

A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the Sephardic folktale as it relates to group identity and narrative culture.