Marvels & Tales articles from April 2007

Marvels & Tales archives from April 2007

Preface to the special issue on fairy tales, printed texts, and oral tellings.(Editorial)
April 1, 2007... This special issue showcases contemporary explorations of fairy tales' origins and transmission, introduces one seminal work previously unavailable in English, and reproduces a long-inaccessible tale from the Thousand and One Nights tradition....

The relationship between oral and literary tradition as a challenge in fairy-tale research: the case of Finnish folktales.(Essay)
April 1, 2007... The incidence of four international/European fairy tales in Finnish folk tradition--"Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Beauty and the Beast"--opens several questions about relationships between the traditions of oral and...

On the literary origins of folkloric fairy tales: a comparison between Madame d'Aulnoy's "Finette Cendron" and Frank Bourisaw's "Belle Finette".(Essay)
April 1, 2007... This research traces the journey of a single fairy tale from its origins in Parisian salons three hundred years ago to an oral version told from memory by a French Missourian miner in 1934. Mme d'Aulnoy's "Finette Cendron" has a peculiar...

The transformation of folktales and fairy tales into popular booklets.(Essay)
April 1, 2007... Introduction: The Importance of Popular Booklets of Tales From the very beginning of the history of books, in the middle of the fifteenth century, popular print constituted an important part of book production. Chapbooks with various...

A prologue tale as manifesto tale: establishing a narrative literary form and the formation of Arabian Nights.(Essay)
April 1, 2007... The Prologue Tale Nights 756-78 of the Arabic-language Bulaq edition of Arabian Nights comprise a prologue to the tale that follows. The Bulaq edition is widely known, enjoys broad acceptance, and is routinely used as a reference source....

Postulated routes from Naples to Paris: the printer Antonio Bulifon and Giambattista Basile's fairy tales in seventeenth-century France.(Essay)
April 1, 2007... The roots of the French fairy tale's family tree are firmly planted in Italian soil. Indeed, the pioneers of the genre never sought to hide the printed, literary Italian ancestry of their tales. In the preface to her Histoires sublimes et...

New poetics versus old print: fairy tales, animal fables, and the gaulois past.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... Within a brief four-year period, 1696-1699, two conteuses and one critic address fairy-tale origins, authorial talent, and the public reception of fairy tales in a group of rarely translated prefatory dedications, afterwords, frametale...

Does sex breed gender? Pronominal reference in the Grimms' fairy tales.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... This article is part of an ongoing project to investigate linguistic aspects of the Grimms' fairy tales (Kinder- und Hausmarchen; hereafter, KHM) that may yield insights into the conscious or unconscious motivations and prejudices the Grimm...

Semiliterate and semi-oral processes.(SCHOLARSHIP IN TRANSLATION)(Essay)
April 1, 2007... Until the late 1970s a hard divide separated those who saw pre-eighteenth-century European underclasses as illiterate and therefore innocent of literature-based knowledge and those who, on the other hand, wished to grant the folk some...

The prologue tale.(TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS)(Short story)
April 1, 2007... Guest Editor's Introduction The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called in England The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, a new translation from the Arabic with copious notes by Edward William Lane, Hon. M.R.S.L. etc., Author of "The Modern...

Fairy Tale Review.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Fairy Tale Review. Edited by Kate Bernheimer. "The Blue Issue." 2006. 110 pp. + 6 illustrations. The debut issue of the literary journal Fairy Tale Review is "devoted to contemporary literary fairy tales and hopes to provide an elegant and...

Le Figuier magique et autres contes algeriens dits par Aouda.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Le Figuier magique et autres contes algeriens dits par Aouda Edited by Micheline Galley. Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 2003. 294 pp. This book comprises eight folktales, presented in facing-page Arabic/French translation. The...

Madame d'Aulnoy: Contes des Fees, suivis des Contes nouveaux ou Les Fees a la Mode.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Madame d'Aulnoy: Contes des Fees, suivis des Contes nouveaux ou Les Fees a la Mode. Edited by Nadine Jasmin. Vol. 1. Bibliotheque des Genies et des Fees. Paris: Champion, 2005. 1, 220 pp. Contes: Mademoiselle Lheritier, Mademoiselle...

The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Selected and translated by Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 293 pp., bibliography. In the past decade,...

The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. By Francois-Timoleon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier, and Charles Perrault. Trans. Steven Rendall. Intro. Joan DeJean. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004. xvii + 66 pp. ...

Handbuch zur narrativen Volksaufklarung: Moralische Geschichten, 1780-1848.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Handbuch zur narrativen Volksaufklarung: Moralische Geschichten, 1780-1848. By Heidrun Alzheimer-Haller. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. 899 pp. Moralische Geschichten sind kurze, literarisch konstruierte Erzahlungen, die im 18....

Arachne und ihre Schwestern: Eine Motivgeschichte der Spinne von den "Naturvolkermarchen" bis zu den "Urban Legends.".(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Arachne und ihre Schwestern: Eine Motivgeschichte der Spinne von den "Naturvolkermarchen" bis zu den "Urban Legends." By Bernd Rieken. Munster, Germany: Waxmann, 2003. 288 pp., illustrations. As the title Arachne und ihre Schwestern...

The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature. By Joseph Stanton. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. 88 pp., endnotes, other works of interest. Once upon a Time: Illustrations from Fairytales, Fables, Primers,...

Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. By Charles Butler. Lanham, Maryland: Children's Literature Association, 2006. 311 pp. Reading a...

Terrors of Childhood in Grimms' Fairy Tales.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Terrors of Childhood in Grimms' Fairy Tales. By W. G. Kudszus. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 149 pp. This is a curious, slight bur dense study, filled with revelations and contradictions that ultimately do not advance our understanding of...

Organ Theft Legends.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Organ Theft Legends. By Feronique Campion-Vincent. Translated by Jacqueline Simpson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. xii + 236 pp. Campion-Vincent's self-proclaimed objective in Organ Theft Legends is to "make people...