Marvels & Tales articles from October 2006

Marvels & Tales archives from October 2006

From the editors.(books about Hans Christian Andersen)
October 1, 2006... During the vibrant growth of fairy-tale studies over the past four decades, the stories of Hans Christian Andersen have received comparatively less attention than that of other European writers and collectors of classic fairy tales--such as...

Preface to the special issue: "Hidden, but not Forgotten": Hans Christian Andersen's legacy in the twentieth century.
October 1, 2006... A green cloth volume of Andersen's fairy tales in the Grosset & Dunlap Illustrated Junior Library is one of the books I remember most vividly from childhood. And when my first grade teacher discovered I could read aloud "The Ugly Duckling"...

On translating H. C. Andersen.(Hans Christian Andersen)
October 1, 2006... One day in the last stages of working on our translation of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, we received an e-mail that was not meant for our eyes. It began: "Insane doesn't even begin to describe these two." The message was sent by our...

"Our time is the time of the fairy tale": Hans Christian Andersen between traditional craft and literary modernism.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... The position held by Hans Christian Andersen in world literature is that of a children's author. In Scandinavia, and to some extent also in Germany, France, and Eastern Europe, there is an awareness that Andersen was much more than that: a...

A liberating imagination: Andersen in England.(Hans Christian Andersen)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... "The Flying Trunk" is a story about the effects of storytelling, and in this respect it resembles many others that appear among Hans Christian Andersen's 156 or more fairy tales. Like other such tales, it juxtaposes the near and the far, the...

The ugly duckling's legacy: adulteration, contemporary fantasy, and the dark.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... In the annals of childhood reading Hans Christian Andersen lurks, a latent wound. For many of us he provides the first whisper of pain that will not heal, of quests that fail, of desires that remain unsated. And yet his stories linger in the...

H. C. Andersen as seen by critics of German children's literature since the beginning of the twentieth century.(Hans Christian)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Since 1956 the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), which was founded in Germany in 1953, assigns the International Hans Christian Andersen Award in the field of children's literature (see Gilstrup and Scharioth)....

Critical reflections about Hans Christian Andersen, the failed revolutionary.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... For years the public image of Hans Christian Andersen in North America has been associated with images of Danny Kaye singing "I'm Hans Christian Andersen" in the popular 1952 Samuel Goldwyn film. Happy-go-lucky, adored by children,...

From Andersen on: Fairy Tales tell our lives.(Hans Christian Andersen)(Critical essay)(Reprint)
October 1, 2006... Human beings are storytelling animals. It is what distinguishes us from the other beasts. We are dreamers, too, always looking for that bit of luck, that bit of magic, that bit of courage that guarantees us the prize. We are wizards of the...

Migratory birds: illustrating Andersen's "nightingale".(Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... I remember reading about a popular survey from the beginning of the twentieth century. The question asked: what books would you take with you to a deserted island? If I were asked the same question, it would probably need to be phrased...

Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook. Edited by Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2005. xxxv + 515 pp. Despite some lacunae due to the broad scope of the six-volume work, Stith Thompson's...

Folk and Fairy Tales. A Handbook.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Folk and Fairy Tales. A Handbook. By D[ee] L. Ashliman. Greenwood Folklore Handbooks. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. viii + 268 pp., bibliography, index, illustrations. This handbook of Folk and Fairy Tales by D. L. Ashliman is...

Album Mille et une nuits: Iconographie choisie et commentee par Margaret Sironval.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Album Mille et une nuits: Iconographie choisie et commentee par Margaret Sironval. Paris: Gallimard, 2005. 268 pp. As the paper cassette it is housed in states, the little book under review has been put together especially for the fifteenth...

The Arabian Nights: A Play.(Theater review)
October 1, 2006... The Arabian Nights: A Play. By Mary Zimmerman. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2005. 144 pp. The Arabian Nights: A Play. By Mary Zimmerman. Directed by John H. Y. Wat. Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts, Honolulu,...

The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia. Compiled by Shusha Guppy. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005. xviii, 209 pp. Ever since the Grub-Street prints of tales from the Arabian Nights at the beginning of the eighteenth century,...

Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. By Anne E. Duggan. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 288 pp. Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies is a compelling study of how...

Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. By Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2005. xvii+171 pp., endnotes, bibliography, film bibliography, index, illustrations. "I am worthy of you.... I am truly popular, truly appreciated...

Critical exchanges.(fairy tales and oral tradition)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... 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,...