Marvels & Tales articles from October 2008

Marvels & Tales archives from October 2008

"There lived in the Land of Oz two queerly made men": Queer Utopianism and Antisocial Eroticism in L. Frank Baum's Oz Series.(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... The film version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz serves as a pop-culture icon of twentieth-century Western gay culture. (1) With Judy Garland as the star, its exaggerated characters of good and evil, and its Technicolor wonderland...

Crescentia's Oriental Relatives: The "Tale of the Pious Man and His Chaste Wife" in the Arabian Nights and the sources of Crescentia in Near Eastern narrative tradition.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... Introduction The "Tale of the Pious Man and His Chaste Wife" is one of several tales of which varying though closely related versions are contained in the different redactions of the Arabian Nights. Essentially, the tale narrates the...

Sleeping Beauty must die: the plots of Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant".(Charles Perrault's The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... The cannibalism storyline in Charles Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant" ("The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods") is both disturbing and fascinating, eliciting a wide range of critical response, even as the entire plot has been dropped from most...

Beauty and the Beast a la Russe.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... This essay demonstrates the relevance of combining the syntagmatic model of structural analysis discussed in Vladimir Propp's Morfologiia volshebnoi skazki (Morphology of the Folktale) with a symbolic analysis and information on the cultural...

Crescentia's Oriental Relatives: four translations.(TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS)
October 1, 2008... Translator's Introduction The following section supplements my essay on "Crescentia's Oriental Relatives" in the present issue. It comprises translations of four of the texts relevant to the essay's argument that before now have not been...

The Jealous Princess.(TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... Translator's Introduction The question of sources for the classical fairy tale has been a subject of debate. Because of a lack of documentation, we can only speculate on the nature and impact of oral tales that may have served as...

The Tale of Tales; or, Entertainment for Little Ones.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... The Tale of Tales; or, Entertainment for Little Ones. By Giambattista Basile. Edited and translated by Nancy L. Canepa. Illustrated by Carmelo Lettere. Foreword by Jack Zipes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. xxx + 463 pp. ...

Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies. By Jan M. Ziolkowski. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 500 pp. In this beautifully crafted and handsome tome, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley...

Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales. Edited by Marina Balina, Helena Goscilo, and Mark Lipovetsky. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. xiv + 418 pp. Now that the kind of cachet that Russia had...

In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke.
October 1, 2008... In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. By Sadhana Naithani. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xi + 328 pp. "In 1996, I located the handwritten manuscripts of William Crooke's famed collection...

Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism.(The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English)(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism. Edited by J. D. Stahl, Tina L. Hanlon, and Elizabeth Lennox Keyser. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xli + 1009 pp. The Norton Anthology of Children's...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Jack Zipes, editor in chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 4 volumes, 1952 pp. We have entered the second golden age of the encyclopedia. Part of this renaissance is the result...

When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. By Jack Zipes. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv + 322 pp. This revised and expanded edition of a book first published in 1999 aims to "provide a sociohistorical...

The Arabian Nights Reader.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... The Arabian Nights Reader. Edited by Ulrich Marzolph. Series in Fairy Tale Studies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 392 pp. Reading the essays selected for inclusion in The Arabian Nights Reader will take some readers on...

Lies That Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen through Contemporary Fiction.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Lies That Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen through Contemporary Fiction from Britain. By Anne C. Hegerfeldt. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 347 pp. Although Lies That Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen through Contemporary Fiction from Britain...

Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels. By Laurence Talairach-Vielmas. Aldershot, VT: Ashgate, 2007. viii + 176 pp. During one of her startling growth spurts, Alice exclaims, "When I used to read...

Film, Folklore, and Urban Legends.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Film, Folklore, and Urban Legends. By Mikel J. Koven. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. ix +199 pp. Films offer excellent opportunities to demonstrate the legend's dynamics. I have shown The Burning (1981), Urban Legend (1998), and other...

Pan's Labyrinth / El Laberinto del Fauno.(Movie review)
October 1, 2008... Pan's Labyrinth / El Laberinto del Fauno. Written, directed, and produced by Guillermo del Toro. Color. 119 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. DVD. Estudios Picasso Tequila Gang Esperanto Filmo, 2006. If you believe what many have...