Folklore And The Fantastic In Nineteenth Century British Fiction

Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317134657

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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Jason Marc Harris Pdf

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.

Author : Jennifer Schacker
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814345924

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Staging Fairyland by Jennifer Schacker Pdf

In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories. Rowdy, comedic, and slightly risqué, pantomime productions were situated in dynamic relationship with various forms of print and material culture. Popular fairy-tale theater also informed the production and reception of folklore research in ways that are often overlooked. In Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, Jennifer Schacker reclaims the place of theatrical performance in this history, developing a model for the intermedial and cross-disciplinary study of narrative cultures. The case studies that punctuate each chapter move between the realms of print and performance, scholarship and popular culture. Schacker examines pantomime productions of such well-known tales as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Jack and the Beanstalk," as well as others whose popularity has waned—such as, "Daniel O’Rourke" and "The Yellow Dwarf." These productions resonate with traditions of impersonation, cross-dressing, literary imposture, masquerade, and the social practice of "fancy dress." Schacker also traces the complex histories of Mother Goose and Mother Bunch, who were often cast as the embodiments of both tale-telling and stage magic and who move through various genres of narrative and forms of print culture. These examinations push at the limits of prevailing approaches to the fairy tale across media. They also demonstrate the degree to which perspectives on the fairy tale as children's entertainment often obscure the complex histories and ideological underpinnings of specific tales. Mapping the histories of tales requires a fundamental reconfiguration of our thinking about early folklore study and about "fairy tales": their bearing on questions of genre and ideology but also their signifying possibilities—past, present, and future. Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children’s literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000124373311

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Béaloideas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah R. Wakefield
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 082046340X

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Folklore in British Literature by Sarah R. Wakefield Pdf

Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women's writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus harmless. Because supernatural creatures change constantly, a name or story from folklore merely reinforces fears about empire, labor, and desire. To illustrate these fascinating rhetorical strategies, this book explores works by Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Sydney Owenson, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Anne Thackeray, and Jean Ingelow, pushing our understanding of allusions to folktales, fairy tales, and myths beyond «happily ever after.»

Author : Nicola Bown,Carolyn Burdett,Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521810159

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The Victorian Supernatural by Nicola Bown,Carolyn Burdett,Pamela Thurschwell Pdf

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Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135204341

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Why Fairy Tales Stick by Jack Zipes Pdf

In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000124956891

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Brontë Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Princess Grace Irish Library. International Conference
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024918695

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That Other World by Princess Grace Irish Library. International Conference Pdf

As with every other region of Europe and the world, the traditional folklore of Ireland abounds with tales involving the supernatural and the fantastic, but nowhere else have these tales so influenced the literature and the shaping of that country, and no other country has produced so many world-famous authors whose work has shown those influences.

Author : Karl Bell
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843837879

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The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack by Karl Bell Pdf

An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.

Author : Redaktion Osnabrück
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110230259

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2010 by Redaktion Osnabrück Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132656179

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Irish University Review by Anonim Pdf

A journal of Irish studies.

Author : Michael Dylan Foster,Jeffrey A. Tolbert
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457197468

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The Folkloresque by Michael Dylan Foster,Jeffrey A. Tolbert Pdf

"This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline.Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes—integration, portrayal, and parody—the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts.The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms."

Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 195713366X

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Master of Rods and Strings by Jason Marc Harris Pdf

Jason Marc Harris weaves a tale of dark enchantment and vengeful obsession in this Supernatural Horror. "Jason Marc Harris's Master of Rods and Strings is a masterful work the likes of which I have not read in many years. In captivating and expert prose Master of Rods and Strings brings to life a world where the enchantment of puppetry inexorably descends into a magical perdition."-Thomas Ligotti Elias, tormented by visions of his sister's suffering and jealous of the adulation her puppetry skills command, is drawn into the shadowy world of occult puppetry. Under the tutelage of the enigmatic Uncle Pavan, Elias seeks to master this arcane craft, but the price of knowledge is steep, and the path to vengeance is fraught with unspeakable horrors. Set against the rich backdrop of France, Harris's novella is a masterclass in suspense and dark fantasy. Critics hail it as a "masterful work" that brings to life a world where the art of puppetry descends into magical damnation. With captivating and expert prose, this story pulls readers through a fever dream of loyalty, artistic passion, and the ultimate cost of revenge. Comparisons have been drawn to Patrick Suskind's Perfume for its vivid sensory detail and the portrayal of an obsessive protagonist. Master of Rods and Strings stands out for its "boundlessly unique and charmingly strange" narrative, ensnaring readers in its crackling compulsion. Joining the ranks of modern masters of weird fiction, Harris delivers a morbidly fascinating journey that begins as a quiet horror novella and crescendos into an apocalyptic climax. The novella is a chilling exploration of the transformation from innocence to a capacity for great evil, all in the name of retribution. At its core, Master of Rods and Strings is a classic revenge story, a testament to the mastery of a craft, and a cautionary tale of ambition's potential to corrupt the noblest of intentions. In just ninety-two pages, Harris crafts a world teeming with depth, where every scene is laden with both the tangible and the spectral. For those who find a thrill in the menace of the inhuman, from antique dolls to emotionless automatons, this dark fiction novella is a chilling new entry into the canon. Master of Rods and Strings is a novella to be devoured in one sitting, but its haunting essence will linger long after the final page is turned. Discover the dark allure of occult puppetry and the lengths one will go to for revenge in this unforgettable narrative. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001757827

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The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy by Brian M. Stableford Pdf

Author : Charles De Lint
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1892391961

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The Very Best of Charles de Lint by Charles De Lint Pdf

A Loving Collaboration between Charles de Lint and his fans, this extraordinary collection celebrates the finest stories of the pioneer of urban fantasy and creator of the mythical city of Newford. Asked to suggest their own favorite stories for inclusion, de Lint's readers were instrumental in creating this timeless treasury. These retold fairy tales and modern myths redefine magic through de Lint's enchanted characters: playful Crow Girls sneaking into the homes of their sleeping neighbors; a graffiti artist risking everything to expose a long-standing conspiracy; a half-human girl choosing between her village and her strange birthright; and an unrepentant trickster throwing one last party in his folkloric tradition.