Literary Criticism and Theory
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Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales
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.
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ISBN: 9780814338414
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ISBN: 9780814338421
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Channeling Wonder
Fairy Tales on Television
Investigates a wide range of fairy tales on television, stretching into the twenty-first century and across the world.
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ISBN: 9780814339220
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ISBN: 9780814339237
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Grimms' Tales around the Globe
The Dynamics of Their International Reception
A systematic study of various factors in the international reception of Grimms’ fairy tales.
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ISBN: 9780814339206
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ISBN: 9780814339213
Reading, Translating, Rewriting
Angela Carter's Translational Poetics
Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction.
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ISBN: 9780814336342
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ISBN: 9780814336359
Fairy Tales Transformed?
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder
Investigates early twenty-first-century fairy-tale transformations to explore the politics and poetics of adaptation.
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ISBN: 9780814334874
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ISBN: 9780814339282
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Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the World
An Anthology of International Retellings
Collects more than fifty versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story from a wide range of countries and cultures.
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ISBN: 9780814334799
Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts
Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions
Investigates the religious diversity in early modern English literature and culture in relation to a dominant English Protestant national identity.
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ISBN: 9780814339558
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ISBN: 9780814339565
Transgressive Tales
Queering the Grimms
Contributors explore alternative readings and queer possibilities of the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM, Children's and Household Tales).
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ISBN: 9780814334812
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ISBN: 9780814338100
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The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work The Russian Folktale.
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ISBN: 9780814334669
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ISBN: 9780814337219
Bearing Witness to African American Literature
Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency
An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.
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ISBN: 9780814337141
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ISBN: 9780814337158
The Golem Redux
From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction
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.
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ISBN: 9780814336267
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ISBN: 9780814336274
A Trip to the Country
by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat
Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.
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ISBN: 9780814335031
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ISBN: 9780814336816
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Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales
An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings
The first systematic approach to the parallels between fairy-tale retellings and fairy-tale theory.
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ISBN: 9780814334522
Our Exodus
Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story
Examines the phenomenon of Exodus and its influence on post–World War II understandings of Israel’s beginnings.
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ISBN: 9780814334430
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ISBN: 9780814336397
Byron and the Jews
A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.
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ISBN: 9780814334423
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ISBN: 9780814335406
Members of the Tribe
Native America in the Jewish Imagination
A history of representations of American Indians in Jewish literature and popular media.
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ISBN: 9780814334348
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ISBN: 9780814337004
Marvelous Geometry
Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale
Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.
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ISBN: 9780814332627
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ISBN: 9780814335727
Stories of Joseph
Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam
Stories of Joseph details this historical interdependence that reveals much about common experiences and concerns of Jews and Muslims.
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ISBN: 9780814325667
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ISBN: 9780814340950
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Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale
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.
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ISBN: 9780814332542
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ISBN: 9780814335826
Under Fire
Childhood in the Shadow of War
Investigates the effects of war on children and children’s literature.
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ISBN: 9780814334041