Marvels & Tales articles from April 2003

Marvels & Tales archives from April 2003

From the editor.
April 1, 2003... This special issue of Marvels & Tales includes papers that were presented at a conference hosted by the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University on 30-31 March 2001. That memorable conference--organized by Andrea Immel, U. C....

Introduction: literary fairy tales and the value of impurity.
April 1, 2003... The self-conscious revisionism of the literary fairy tale is a mark of its resilience. Challenging a purism exemplified by "Frauds on the Fairies," an essay in which Dickens imposes rigid sexual binaries on "Cendrillon," this article explores...

"Entertainment for Little Ones"? Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the childhood of the literary fairy tale.
April 1, 2003... The two principal aims of this essay are: first, to consider the place of Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti in the early history of the literary fairy tale, the author's "creation" of a new audience for a new genre, and, in particular, his position...

The poetics of enchantment (1690-1715).
April 1, 2003... This article addresses the woman teller's identity in the literary fairy tales of France. The author rereads prefaces and images that scholars have used to demonstrate the woman teller's literarity to argue rather for her "frivolity," a word...

Male adolescence in German fairy-tale novellas of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Biedermeier.
April 1, 2003... To a great extent fairy tales are stories about first love, which end with the final union of the couple. They are thus automatically family stories dealing with the children's successful or unsuccessful detachment from the parents' law. Looked...

"A fairytale is just a fairytale": George MacDonald and the queering of fairy.
April 1, 2003... This essay acknowledges George MacDonald's sense of the fairy tale as a feminine form, expressive of imaginative and nonrational modes of thought. But most of his fantasy work delivers a dual world, a world in which fantasy and reality...

"Like the fragments of coloured glass in a kaleidoscope": Andrew Lang Mixes Up Richard Doyle's In Fairyland.
April 1, 2003... Andrew Lang argued that fairy tales were composed of "[a] certain number of incidents" that can then be shaken 'into many various combinations of incidents." This also seems to explain the folklorist's composition of The Princess Nobody (1884),...

Arthur Hughes, Walter Crane, and Maurice Sendak: The picture as Literary Fairy Tale.
April 1, 2003... Illustrations, in reinterpreting and extending traditional fairy tales, act as literary fairy tales, adding more images and stories to our culture as they depart from the original source material. Victorian Arthur Hughes through his wood...

Fairy tale and fantasy: from archaic to postmodern.
April 1, 2003... The essay discusses the ontological, structural, and epistemological differences between fairy tales and fantasy literature, two genres often treated together in critical works. Using contemporary theories of the fantastic, it is argued that...

The Celtic Breeze: Stories of the Otherworld from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. (Reviews).(The Celtic Breeze: Stories of the Otherworld from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales)(The Eagle on the Cactus: Traditional Stories from Mexico)(Jasmine and Coconuts: South Indian Tales)(The Magic Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine)(Thai Tales: Folktales of Thailand. Retold by Supaporn Vathanaprida)(A Tiger by the Tail and Other Stories from the Heart of Korea)(When Night Falls, Kric! Krac! Haitian Folktales)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Celtic Breeze: Stories of the Otherworld from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. By Heather McNeil. World Folklore Series. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001. xxxiii + 214 pp. The Eagle on the Cactus: Traditional Stories from Mexico....

The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900. (Reviews).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900. Edited and translated by Shawn C. Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell. European Women Writers Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xii + 374 pp. As a result of their...

Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction. (Reviews).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction. By Susan Sellers. Basingstoke and New York: Pal grave, 2001. ix + l98 pp. This is an ambitious book. Prof. Sellers has attempted to survey the history of research on myth and on fairy...

Madame d'Aulnoy et le rire des fees: essai sur Za subversion feerique et le merveilleux comique sous l'Ancien Regime. (Reviews).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Madame d'Aulnoy et le rire des fees: essai sur Za subversion feerique et le merveilleux comique sous l'Ancien Regime By Jean Mainil. Paris: Kime, 2001. 291 pp. Jean Mainil's study of Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tales is the first to seriously...

Fiabe e mercanti in Sicilia. La raccolta di Laura Gonzenbach. La comunita di lingua tedesca a Messina nell'Ottocento and Fiabe Siciliane. Rilette da Vincenzo Consolo. (Reviews).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Fiabe e mercanti in Sicilia. La raccolta di Laura Gonzenbach. La comunita di lingua tedesca a Messina nell'Ottocento. By Luisa Rubini. Biblioteca di "Lares" n.s. 53. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1998. xii + 401 pp. Fiabe Siciliane....

The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold. (Reviews).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold. By Kate Bernheimer. Normal/Tallahassee FC2, 2001. 192 pp. Twisting, dreamlike, and surreal, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a fascinating exploration of the many levels that fairy tales influence in...

PixerinaWITCHERINA. (Reviews).
April 1, 2003... PixerinaWITCHERINA. Exhibition. Curated by Bill Conger. Catalogue with essays by Bill Conger, Maria Tatar, and Jan Susina. University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 2002 (Exhibition dates not given). A secret...

The Adventures of Prince Achmed. (Reviews).(Animated advertisement for Nivea Cream)(Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film)(Video Recording Review)
April 1, 2003... The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Germany 1926. B&W/Tinted. 65 minutes. Directed by Lotte Reiniger. Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film. Documentary 1999. B&W/Color. 60 minutes. Written and directed by Katja Raganelli....