Marvels & Tales articles from April 2002

Marvels & Tales archives from April 2002

From the editor.
April 1, 2002... Marvels & Tales is now available online. This exciting development for our contributors and readers is made possible through the cooperation of Wayne State University Press and Project MUSE(r), which is a collaborative project of Johns Hopkins...

The Bushman trickster: protagonist, divinity, and agent of creativity. (Articles).
April 1, 2002... In a classic article and book on the subject, Carl Gustav Jung noted that "the so-called civilized man has forgotten the trickster" (Jung 206). In this paper I would like to recall this virtually universal mythological and folkloric figure back...

A masochism promising supreme conquests: Simone de Beauvoir's reflections on fairy tales and children's literature. (Articles).(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2002... Children's literature is a powerful instrument of indoctrination. But the powers of indoctrination are not absolute. A person who almost entirely escaped it is Simone de Beauvoir. Simone de Beauvoir was brought up in Paris as the first of...

The deconstruction of the male-rescuer archetype in contemporary feminist revisions of "The Sleeping Beauty". (Scholarship in Translation).(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2002... Editor's Introduction Despite its international scope, fairy-tale studies has been relatively less attentive to Spanish and Latin American traditions, and generally unaware of the scholarship produced by specialists in these areas. In...

The Bird of Truth. (Texts & Translations).(Short Story)
April 1, 2002... Translator's Introduction Cecilia Bohl de Faber (1819-89). novelist, short story writer, and folklorist, immersed herself in the oral tradition of southern Spain and published yarns that she collected in Cuentos y poesias populares...

The Magic Lamp. (Texts & Translations).(Short Story)
April 1, 2002... Introduction Rafik Schami, born in 1946 into a middle-class Christian-Aramaic family in Damascus, Syria, is one of a number of writers from Arabic-speaking countries who came to the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s and early 1980s...

Overhearing human and animal languages. (Texts & Translations).(Short Story)
April 1, 2002... Introduction Considering how many children have had to learn to overhear what's being kept from them, someone should write a history of eavesdropping (Schenda 196-201). After all, it has long been a practice of anthropologists and...