Marvels & Tales articles from October 2002

Marvels & Tales archives from October 2002

Preface to the special issue on "Jack Zipes and the sociohistorical study of fairy tales".
October 1, 2002... As this special issue of Marvels & Tales goes to press, a groundbreaking work of fairy-tale scholarship that introduced the sociohistorical study of fairy tales to English-speaking scholars is being republished in a revised and expanded...

A bibliography of publications by Jack Zipes on fairy tales, fantasy, and children's literature.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2002... The following bibliography is selected from Jack Zipes's larger corpus of published scholarship, which encompasses a wide variety of subjects, including romanticism, theater, the modern novel, philosophy, German-Jewish studies, and the...

Written for children: two eighteenth-century English fairy tales. (Articles).
October 1, 2002... On 30 October 1756, in one of the many letters that passed between them, Lady Ailesbury told her old friend Horace Walpole: "Missy is sitting by throwing all the ink and sand about, and tormenting me to death to read fairy tales to her"...

Creating the sensual child: Paterian aesthetics, pederasty, and Oscar Wilde's fairy tales. (Articles).(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... In The Case of Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose declares that children's literature often stages a seduction in which the author attempts to draw the child reader into complicity with the pleasures offered by an adult's vision of the ideal child. As...

Fairy tales in society's service. (Articles).(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... Jack Zipes has repeatedly demonstrated that fairy tales have an enormous subversive potential. The nature of subversion, however, may vary radically depending on the society in which fairy tales appear. In this essay I will show how a certain...

The rebirth of the postmodern flaneur: notes on the postmodern landscape of Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat. (Articles).(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... You can't explain Hollywood. There isn't any such place. Its just the dream suburb of Los Angeles. Rachel Field, To See Ourselves (qtd. in McWilliams 330) Francesca Lia Block deftly weaves descriptions of real and imaginary places in...

Utopia, dystopia, and cultural controversy in ever after and The Grimm Brothers' Snow White. (Articles).(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... Films reflect struggles over cultural power (Sklar 20-21). The extent to which traditional fairy tales, despite the givenness of their stories, may function as a site for disparate interrogations of the metanarratives of culture is sharply...

Orality, history, and "Creoleness" in Patrick Chamoiseau's Creole Folktales. (Articles).(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... Readers and scholars of fairy tales everywhere owe Jack Zipes a multitude of debts. His prolific scholarship and numerous editions have contributed immeasurably to the vitality of the genre, all the while grounding our understanding in the...

Grieve. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Grieve (Bare Bones) Joellyn Rock Once ther was and once there was not a little girl named Vasalisa (VASILISA Vassilissa Wassilissa) She was the sweetest thing, a really REALLY good girl. Her mother...

Leave. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Leave (Bare Bones) Joellyn Rock Vasalisa's father wasn't cut out for raising a daughter alone. So he prompt1y put the word out had himself declared eligible, available... maybe even placed a personal ad. Before...

Navigate. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Navigate (Bare Bones) Joellyn Rock Never, Never had Vasalisa been so scared. She managed to stuff the little doll down into her pocket just as she was pitched out into the nicotine night. As she walked she...

Encounter. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Encounter (Bare Bones) Joellyn Rock Even though there was fresh snow on the ground. there were still Halloween decorations up around the joint. Paper skeletons swung from each porch post. Along-the-fence...

Serve. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Serve (Bare Bones) Jollyn Rock Sure. Baba Yaga could help Vasalisa. Sure. She knew her family. They were just stupid enough to send this waif wandering in search of fire. But you don't get somethin for nothin. ...

Separate. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Separate Bare Bones Joellyn Rock Baba Yaga Was a little irked the next morning to discover that somehow Vasalisa had managed to complete all her chores. She had been looking forward to a little breakfast of girl...

Inquire. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Inquire Bare Bones Joellyn Rock That night there they were again: The three pairs of hands crushing the corn into meal grinding the wheat into flour pressing the poppy seeds into oil and printing the final copy...

Employ. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Employ (Bare Bones) Joellyn Rock And before she knew what had happened to her, Vasalisa was out the door. (seems like this has happened to her before) Only this time she had the fire in a skull on a stick in her...

Morph. (Bare Bones).(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Morph (Bare Bones) Joellyn Rock Once there was and Once there was not a little girl who.... and she was called Vasilisa the Beautiful Once there was and Once there was not a little girl who.... and she was called...

From the baroque to the postmodern: notes on a translation from Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales. (Texts & Translations).
October 1, 2002... Introduction I am currently working on an unabridged English translation of Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, or The Tale of Tales (1634-36). The Tale of Tales was the first framed collection of literary fairy tales to appear in...

Seven Brooms. (Texts & Translations).
October 1, 2002... Introduction "Seven Brooms" is adapted from a Neapolitan tale, "Cunto d' 'e duie mercante" or "The Tale of Two Merchants," which was recorded by Vincenzo della Sala and published in the journal Giambattista Basile: Archivio de letteratura...

The Type and Motif Index of Finnish Belief Legends and Memorates. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Type and Motif Index of Finnish Belief Legends and Memorates. By Marjatta Jauhiainen. Revised and enlarged edition of Lauri Simonsuuri's Typen- und Motivverszeichnis der finnischen mythischen Sagen (FF Communications No. 182). FF...

Indice delle fiabe popolari italiane di magia. Volumes I and I**. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Indice delle fiabe popolari italiane di magia. Volumes I and I**. By Renato Aprile. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2000. xv + 408 pp.; 409-894 pp. Renato Aprile's award-winning work fills the need for an index of Italian tales of magic that is...

The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. Selected and edited by Jack Zipes. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001. 991 pp. In many respects, Jack Zipes's most recent...

Feen-Mahrchen: Zur Unterhaltung fur Freunde und Freundinnen der Feenwelt. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Feen-Mahrchen: Zur Unterhaltung fur Freunde und Freundinnen der Feenwelt. Textkritischer Neudruck der anonymen Ausgabe, Braunschweig 1801. Edited and with a commentary by Ulrich Marzolph. Preface by Jeannine Blackwell. Volkskundliche Quellen:...

From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale. By Nancy L. Canepa. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1999. 333 pp. Nancy Canepa has provided English-language scholars with an excellent and...

Twice Upon a Time, Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Twice Upon a Time, Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. By Elizabeth Wanning Harries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xiv + 216. In this readable book, Harries argues that the history of the fairy tale has focused...

Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. Edited by Margaret Read MacDonald. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. xv + 627 pp. This book is a mammoth undertaking, and like all mammoths, it is large and clumsy but...

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays. By A. S. Byatt. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001. l96 pp. A. S. Byatt's collection of essays reflects a writer's timely stance as writer on contemporary literary criticism. The essays also examine...

A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales. Edited by Ellen Datlow and Tern Windling. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. 166 pp. A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales adds another collection to what is emerging as a...

Beasts. (Reviews).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Beasts. By Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2002. 138 pp. "I had not been forbidden to go upstairs, exactly," the young, female narrator of Joyce Carol Oates's novella, Beasts, tells us. "But of course I ventured...