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The Fairy-Tale Vanguard
Ever since its early modern inception as a literary genre unto its own, the fairy tale has frequently provided authors with a textual space in which to reflect on the nature, status and function of their own writing and that of literature in general. At the same time, it has served as an ideal laboratory for exploring and experimenting with the boundaries of literary convention and propriety. While scholarship pertaining to these phenomena has focused primarily on the fairy-tale adaptations and deconstructions of postmodern(ist) writers, this essay collection adopts a more diachronic approach. It offers fairy-tale scholars and students a series of theoretical and literary-historical expositions, as well as case studies on English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, and Romanian texts from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, by authors as diverse as Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Rikki Ducornet, Hans Christian Andersen and Robert Coover.
Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions
This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It argues that the form of the allegorical vision is not just the product of a medieval symbolic mentality, but specific to Hildegard’s position and the major transformations taking place in the prescholastic intellectual milieu, such as the changing use of Scripture or the shift from traditional hermeneutics to cognitive language philosophy. The book shows that Hildegard uses traditional forms of knowledge – prophecy, the vision, monastic theology, allegorical hermeneutics – in startlingly innovative ways by combining them and by revising them for her own time.
Van kikvors tot droomprins
Tweehonderd jaar geleden werd het eerste deel van de Kinder- und Hausmärchen van Jacob en Wilhelm Grimm gepubliceerd. Sprookjes zouden volgens de gebroeders teruggaan tot mythologische verhalen uit een heidens-Germaanse, pre-christelijke voortijd en de verhalen zouden tot in onze tijd mondeling zijn overgeleverd. Deze romantische Germaans-mythologische theorie is inmiddels verlaten. Er zijn geen harde bewijzen voor allerlei mythes als voorlopers van sprookjes, alleen twijfelachtige reconstructies en wilde veronderstellingen. Ook moeten er vraagtekens worden geplaatst bij de rol van een 'pure' overlevering. Volgens een recente theorie is de oorsprong van veel hedendaagse sprookjes eerder te vinden bij novellenbundels uit de zestiende eeuw en later. Het genre sprookjes is springlevend: ze worden mondeling naverteld, (voor)gelezen en uitgebeeld, voor en door kinderen en volwassenen. Van Kikvors tot Droomprins belicht vanuit moderne wetenschappelijke inzichten ontstaansgeschiedenis, receptie en voortbestaan van het sprookje. Met kikkersprongen door de historie.
Anti-Tales
The anti-(fairy) tale has long existed in the shadow of the traditional fairy tale as its flipside or evil twin. According to André Jolles in Einfache Formen (1930), such Antimärchen are contemporaneous with some of the earliest known oral variants of familiar tales. While fairy tales are generally characterised by a “spirit of optimism” (Tolkien) the anti-tale offers us no such assurances; for every “happily ever after,” there is a dissenting “they all died horribly.” The anti-tale is, however, rarely an outright opposition to the traditional form itself. Inasmuch as the anti-hero is not a villain, but may possess attributes of the hero, the anti-tale appropriates aspects of t...
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
Brings contemporary Japanese literary and artistic fairy-tale adaptations into conversation with Euro-American feminist fairy-tale re-creation and scholarship. As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than traditional tales and feature female characters with independent spirits.In From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West,Mayako Murai examines the uses of fairy tales in the works of Japanese women writers and artists sin...
Grimm Legacies
In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale. Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance of stories emanating from an oral tradition, and encouraged friends, colleagues, and strangers to gather and share these tales. As a result, hundreds of thousands of wonderful folk and fairy tales poured into books throughout Europe and have kept co...
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes
Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as...
Alice in Transmedia Wonderland
Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll's classic Wonderland stories to various media. Popular re-imaginings of Alice and her topsy-turvy world reveal many ways of eliciting enchantment and shaping make-believe. Late 20th century and 21st century adaptations interact with the source texts and with each other--providing readers with an elaborate fictional universe. This book fully explores today's multi-media journey to Wonderland.
Zaubererzählungen, Zaubermärchen und Märchenmagie
Dieses Buch dringt tief in die Tradition der Volksmärchen ein und zeigt, dass Zauberei und Magie in den Zaubererzählungen aus dem alten Ägypten dem modernen Denken oft zutiefst fremd sind. Die mittelalterlichen jüdischen, christlichen und muslimischen Zaubererzählungen weisen sowohl unerwartete Ähnlichkeiten als auch überraschende Unterschiede zueinander auf. Ferner bietet die Autorin faszinierendes neues Material zur Erforschung lange tradierter Zaubermärchen aus der internationalen Disziplin der historischen Buchwissenschaft. Sie weist nach, dass am Ende des 15. und Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts Zaubermärchen der Neuzeit wiederum grundsätzliche Änderungen erfuhren, als sie von ein...
