Literary Criticism and Theory

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.

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.

Investigates the religious diversity in early modern English literature and culture in relation to a dominant English Protestant national identity.

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

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.

A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.

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