Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393320466
Collects 100 tales from around the world, including Africa, Western Europe, Native American cultures, Asia, and the Middle East, that feature a heroine.
Author : Kathleen Ragan
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781417623136
Retells more than a hundred folktales form Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East that feature active heroines of all types.
Author : Kathleen Ragan
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780606215992
Retells more than a hundred folktales form Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East that feature active heroines of all types.
Author : Kathleen Ragan
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780733802027
Author : Kathleen Ragan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2000-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393285871
One hundred great folk tales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what it means to be a woman. It is for our daughters and our sons, so that they can learn to value all kinds of courage, courage in battle and the courage of love. It is for all of us to help build a more just vision of woman.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152020477
A collection of thirteen traditional tales from various parts of the world, with the main character of each being a fearless, strong, heroic, and resourceful woman.
Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Virago
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0349008213
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.
Author : J. Gottschall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230615597
Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
Author : Michael Lofaro
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811753697
The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero. But what may come as a surprise to many is that the legendary frontiersman also served as the fictional narrator of a collection of outrageous tall tales about women in the same Crocket Almanacs in which he “recorded” his own adventures. Conceived as a marketing device by nineteenth-century publishers hoping to gain a share of the lucrative almanac market, such stories made these slim volumes the best-selling and longest-running series of comic almanacs published in the United States before the Civil War. Booking back at them now, the Crocket Almanacs offer a true “fun house mirror” view of the culture of antebellum America.
Author : Martin Hallett
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1770487530
This bestselling anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 54 stories, 9 critical articles, and 24 color illustrations from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. Accessible critical selections provide a foundation for readers to analyze, debate, and interpret the tales for themselves. An expanded introduction by the editors looks at the history of folk and fairy tales and distinguishes between the genres, while revised introductions to individual sections provide more detailed history of particular tellers and tales, paying increased attention to the background and cultural origin of each tale. This new edition includes a larger selection of critical articles (including pieces by J.R.R. Tolkien and Marina Warner), more modern and cross-cultural variations on classic tales (including stories by Neil Gaiman and Emma Donoghue), and an expanded selection of color illustrations.
