Fairy Tales Dramolettes

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811224901

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Fairy Tales: Dramolettes by Robert Walser Pdf

Three mini-plays by the German wunderkind and asylum-dweller. Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of the fairy tale, transforming the Brothers Grimm into metatheater, even metareflections. Snow White forgives the evil queen for trying to kill her, Cinderella doubts her prince and enjoys being hated by her evil stepsisters; the Fairy Tale itself is a character who encourages her to stay within the confines of the story. Sleeping Beauty, the royal family, and its retainers are not happy about being woken from their sleep by an absurd, unpretentious, Walser-like hero. Mary and Joseph are taken aback by what lies in store for their baby Jesus.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Oxford Companions
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199689828

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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes Pdf

This Oxford companion provides an authoritative reference source for fairy tales, exploring the tales themselves, both ancient and modern, the writers who wrote and reworked them and related topics such as film, art, opera and even advertising.

Author : Maria Tatar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107031012

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The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar Pdf

An international team of scholars explores the historical origins, cultural dissemination and continuing literary and psychological power of fairy tales.

Author : Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438425337

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Fairy Tales by Ruth B. Bottigheimer Pdf

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. Ruth B. Bottigheimer overturns this view in a lively account of the origins of these well-loved stories. Charles Perrault created Cinderella and her fairy godmother, but no countrywoman whispered this tale into Perrault's ear. Instead, his Cinderella appeared only after he had edited it from the book of often amoral tales published by Giambattista Basile in Naples. Distinguishing fairy tales from folktales and showing the influence of the medieval romance on them, Bottigheimer documents how fairy tales originated as urban writing for urban readers and listeners. Working backward from the Grimms to the earliest known sixteenth-century fairy tales of the Italian Renaissance, Bottigheimer argues for a book-based history of fairy tales. The first new approach to fairy tale history in decades, this book answers questions about where fairy tales came from and how they spread, illuminating a narrative process long veiled by surmise and assumption.

Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1595406700

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English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Pdf

Retells forty-three English tales of humorous folk-fancy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307170255

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The Golden Book of Fairy Tales by Anonim Pdf

Originally published in 1958, this book contains a selection of 28 traditional stories from the French, German, Danish, Russian and Japanese traditions. Includes The Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Puss in Boots, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Beauty and the Beast.

Author : Samuel Frederick,Valerie Heffernan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810137141

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Robert Walser by Samuel Frederick,Valerie Heffernan Pdf

The Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) is now recognized as one of the most important European authors of the modernist period, having garnered high praise from such prominent voices as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee. Robert Walser: A Companion is the first comprehensive guide to Walser’s work in English. The twelve essays in this collection examine Walser’s literary output, historical milieu, and idiosyncratic writing process, addressing aspects of his biography; discussing the various genres in which he wrote (the novel, short prose, drama, lyric poetry, and letters); and analyzing his best-known novels and short stories alongside lesser-known but no less fascinating poems, plays, and prose pieces. An essential addition to the scholarship about this eccentric, prolific, and influential writer’s work, Robert Walser: A Companion will be of interest both to established scholars and to those coming to Walser for the first time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1910*
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : OCLC:264966107

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Cinderella and Other Fairy Tales by Anonim Pdf

Author : Conny Eisfeld
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783954896011

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How Fairy Tales live happily ever after: (Analyzing) The art of adapting Fairy Tales by Conny Eisfeld Pdf

What happened to the classic fairy tale? Do we still read the 'old and dusty tales' of wonder to our children or would we rather take them to the cinema? The fairy tale boom has reached Hollywood where popular tales are currently transformed into entertainment movies. Makers of films and TV series have become the storytellers of the digital age - a transition that frequently leads to discussions about how these new forms limit or contribute to the further development and preservation of the traditional fairy tale. But what exactly is a traditional fairy tale? The book follows the history of the tale, how it has been changing colors and how it has been adapting and surviving for centuries. The main focus lies on the literary and multi-medial analysis of two popular fairy tales: Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood, which have not only been adapted to the screen recently but have been repeatedly altered throughout the centuries. Follow the journey of the fairy tale from its most basic form, i.e. oral storytelling, to a written and illustrated commitment that shaped the general image of fairy tales for forthcoming generations, to its newest form: the visualization through new and digital media.

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681370170

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Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser Pdf

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser’s career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser’s life; others were jotted down on slips of paper and all but forgotten. Together they string together small nutshells of consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony, wistful in their humor. The portraits and landscapes here are observed with tenderness and from a place of great anxiety. Some dwell on childish or transient topics—carousels, the latest hairstyles, an ekphrasis of the illustrations in a picture book—others on the grand themes of nature, art, and love. But they remain conversational, almost lighter than air. Every emotion ventured takes on the weight of a sincerity that is imperiled as soon as it comes into contact with the outside world, which retains all of the novelty it had in childhood—and all of the danger. Walser’s speakers are attuned to the silent music of being; students of the ineffable and neighbors to madness, they are now exhilarated, now paralyzed by frequencies inaudible to less sensitive ears.

Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486218182

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English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Pdf

Forty-three tales of fairies, giants, and foolish ones from the folklore that served to amuse the unlettered classes of "Merrie England."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Folk and Fairy Tales, Fourth Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441608699

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Fairy Tales by Ruth B. Bottigheimer Pdf

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Author : Corey McCall,Nathan Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351592963

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Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature by Corey McCall,Nathan Ross Pdf

This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin’s and Theodor Adorno’s essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but that they developed their philosophies in and through their encounters with literature. Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature is divided into three thematic sections. The first section contains essays that directly demonstrate the ways in which literature enriched the thinking of Benjamin and Adorno. It explores themes that are recognized to be central to their thinking—mimesis, the critique of historical progress, and the loss and recovery of experience—through their readings of literary authors such as Baudelaire, Beckett, and Proust. The second section continues the trajectory of the first by bringing together four essays on Benjamin’s and Adorno’s reading of Kafka, whose work helped them develop a distinctive critique of and response to capitalism. The third and final section focuses more intently on the question of what it means to gain authentically critical insight into a literary work. The essays examine Benjamin’s response to specific figures, including Georg Büchner, Robert Walser, and Julien Green, whose work he sees as neglected, undigested, or misunderstood. This book offers a unique examination of two pivotal 20th-century philosophers through the lens of their shared experiences with literature. It will appeal to a wide range of scholars across philosophy, literature, and German studies.

Author : Bradford Morrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504059305

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Nocturnals by Bradford Morrow Pdf

This spring 2019 edition of Bard College’s literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs. Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own stories, the stellar works collected here—including entries by Sallie Tisdale, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others—address our myriad experiences from dusk to daybreak. In this volume, readers will encounter the monster of Kowloon, which relies on the imaginations of children in order to exist. Three men embark on a hallucinatory journey into the snowy pitch-dark night of the soul. Purgatory can be found here, along with ghosts, alternative universes, an East Village bar that doubles as a portal to another life, and a personal chronicle of a visit to Burning Man in Black Rock Desert. Also included are the nightbird Nycticorax, musical nocturnes, night thoughts at solstice, wheeling galaxies, and the cosmos itself. The pioneering nocturnal photography of George Shiras is celebrated in these pages, and the dichotomous world of night versus day in equatorial Uganda is observed by an ethnographic eye.