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"There lived in the Land of Oz two queerly made men": Queer Utopianism and Antisocial Eroticism in L. Frank Baum's Oz Series.(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... The film version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz serves as a pop-culture icon of twentieth-century Western gay culture. (1) With Judy Garland as the star, its exaggerated characters of good and evil, and its Technicolor wonderland of vibrant colors and outlandish costumes, the...
Crescentia's Oriental Relatives: The "Tale of the Pious Man and His Chaste Wife" in the Arabian Nights and the sources of Crescentia in Near Eastern narrative tradition.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... Introduction
The "Tale of the Pious Man and His Chaste Wife" is one of several tales of which varying though closely related versions are contained in the different redactions of the Arabian Nights. Essentially, the tale narrates the adventures of a pious and chaste married woman who,...
Sleeping Beauty must die: the plots of Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant".(Charles Perrault's The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... The cannibalism storyline in Charles Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant" ("The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods") is both disturbing and fascinating, eliciting a wide range of critical response, even as the entire plot has been dropped from most children's editions and many subsequent...
Beauty and the Beast a la Russe.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... This essay demonstrates the relevance of combining the syntagmatic model of structural analysis discussed in Vladimir Propp's Morfologiia volshebnoi skazki (Morphology of the Folktale) with a symbolic analysis and information on the cultural context of versions of "Beauty and the Beast" (ATU...
Crescentia's Oriental Relatives: four translations.(TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS)
October 1, 2008... Translator's Introduction
The following section supplements my essay on "Crescentia's Oriental Relatives" in the present issue. It comprises translations of four of the texts relevant to the essay's argument that before now have not been translated, including what is presently considered...