Marvels & Tales articles from April 2004

Marvels & Tales archives from April 2004

Return with new complexities: Robert Coover's Briar Rose.
April 1, 2004... Postmodernist fiction usually addresses certain semiotic concerns about the relationship between language and things, between word and world. Its literary techniques cast doubt on what we tend to call "real": the world in its social--if not...

Salman Rushdie's magical kingdom: The Moor's Last Sigh and fairy-tale Utopia.
April 1, 2004... In this essay, I elucidate how The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) can be regarded as Rushdie's attempt to use a combination of Western and Eastern fairy-tale inter-texts as a groundwork for his own fairy tale about utopian worlds, through which he...

Escape from wonderland: Disney and the female imagination.
April 1, 2004... In 1989, Disney's little mermaid first asked the musical question, "When's it my turn?" She asked it again in 1996, when her movie was re-released in theaters, and she continues to ask it, frequently, in many of our living rooms. Never has a...

Tam Lin, fair Janet, and the sexual revolution: traditional ballads, fairy tales, and twentieth-century children's literature.
April 1, 2004... Through their depiction of incidents in which "goodness" is rewarded and "evil" deeds punished, folk and fairy tales function as pedagogical tools that illustrate cultural values, enforce the status quo, and define socially acceptable and...

The weaver of dreams.(Texts & Translations)(Biography)
April 1, 2004... Translator's Introduction Concha Castroviejo (1910-95), Spanish journalist, critic, novelist, and short story writer, was born in Santiago de Compostela (northwestern Spain) and died in Madrid after having lived a full life on two...

Riddling Tales from around the World.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Riddling Tales from around the World. Selected by Marjorie Dundas. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. 226 pp. This anthology contains 79 riddle tales taken mainly from collections of folktales published in English during the...

English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales. By Joseph Jacobs. Edited and with an Introduction by Donald Haase. ABC-CLIO Classic Folk and Fairy Tales. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002. 369 pp. For the generations who grew up reading...

Indian Ocean Folktales.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Indian Ocean Folktales. By Lee Haring. Chennai (Madras): National Folklore Support Centre, 2002. 146 pp. Lee Haring, compiler of the Malagasy Tale Index (1982), now presents 27 tales from Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius, Reunion, and...

Marshall Islands Legends and Stories.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Marshall Islands Legends and Stories. Collected and edited by Daniel A. Kelin II. Illustrated by Nashton T Nashon. Honolulu: Bess Press, 2003. 252 pp. Like the collector and editor of these tales, I have had the privilege of listening to...

Marchen und Meta-Marchen: Zur Poetik der "Volksmarchen der Deutschen" van Johann Karl August Musaus.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Marchen und Meta-Marchen: Zur Poetik der "Volksmarchen der Deutschen" van Johann Karl August Musaus. By Malgorzata Kubisiak. Ingelheim am Rhein: litblockin, 2002. 180 pp. Musaus's collection Volksmarchen der Deutschen (Folktales of the...

Contes tendres, contes cruels du Sahel nigerien.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Contes tendres, contes cruels du Sahel nigerien. Edited and translated by Genevieve Calame-Griaule. Collection "Le langage des contes." Paris: Gallimard, 2002. 293 pp. Genevieve Calame-Griaule is a leading scholar of African folklore, with...

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. By Jan Harold Brunvand. Artwork by Randy Hickman. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2002. 523 pp. Illus. Pbk. Including this one, Jan Brunvand is the author of ten compilations of urban legends spanning more...

Le conte de fees litteraire en France de la fin du XVIIe a la fin du XVIIIe siecle.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Le conte de fees litteraire en France de la fin du XVIIe a la fin du XVIIIe siecle. By Raymonde Robert. Paris: Honore Champion, 2002. 556 pp. Published first in 1981, Professor Robert's book sparked serious research into the French...

Naissance du conte feminin. Mots et Merveilles: Les Contes de fees de Madame d'Aulnoy (1690-1698).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Naissance du conte feminin. Mots et Merveilles: Les Contes de fees de Madame d'Aulnoy (1690-1698). By Nadine Jasmin. Paris: Champion, 2002. 791 pp. At the outset of her book on Madame d'Aulnoy, Nadine Jasmin defines the object of her study...

Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter. By Alison Lurie. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. 219 pp. This collection of fourteen essays makes a useful companion and sequel to Lurie's earlier collection Don't...

The Princess of Wax: a Cruel Tale.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Princess of Wax: A Cruel Tale. By Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino. Illustrations by Anne Bachelier. Translation by Guy Leclerq. New York, CFM Gallery, 2003. Telling her only that I was reviewing The Princess of Wax: A...

Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory. By Stephen Benson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 314 pp. I think all readers of Marvels & Tales, in fact all readers interested in fiction and narrative theory, should read and...

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. By Catherine Orenstein. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xiii + 289 pp. Catherine Orenstein's book is a delightful venture into the European and North American...

Critical exchanges.
April 1, 2004... Fairy-tale studies are made especially interesting by the controversies that inevitably accompany them. Accordingly, Marvels & Tales will publish critical exchanges between readers and authors. Concise, professional responses that augment,...

Series in fairy-tale studies.(Professional Notices)(Wayne State University Press is going to publish new book serie devoted to Fairy Tale Studies)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Wayne State University Press announces a new book series devoted to Fairy-Tale Studies. The series will publish works that significantly advance our understanding of the fairy tale as it has taken shape across history and a broad range of...

Reframing fairy tales.(Professional Notices)
April 1, 2004... A workshop/conference (max. 70 participants), will be held on Saturday, 13 November 2004, at Stony Brook's Manhattan Campus, 401 Park Avenue South (at 28th Street), 2nd Floor, New York NY 10016. Led by Suzanne Magnanini (University of...

Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore.(Professional Notices)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore hopes to stimulate interest and bring to light new scholarship as well as dispel misinterpretations and misunderstandings. With the first issue appearing on-line at the end of January 2004, this...