The Complete Tales Of Ketzia Gold

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573660969

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The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

Her childhood romance with talented, brilliant Adam Brown flowers briefly into a marriage of tenderness and erotic fervor, but Ketzia cannot escape her own intelligence, and soon finds herself compelled toward intoxicating self-destruction. Bernheimer draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore to shape Ketzia's bewildering adventures. This meeting of nursery rhyme and nightmare transforms everyday objects as childhood photos, wine bottles and metal trinkets take on a life of their own, eluding Ketzia's frightened grasp. Marked by a logical illogic and disarmingly sane madness, this haunting and innovative fable creates an emotional landscape that's as impossible to escape as it is for young Ketzia to inhabit.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : F2c
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106018714144

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The Complete Tales of Merry Gold by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

A sequel to The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, the novel follows Merry from her suburban childhood through design school and a whirlwind of lovers, and into a desolate adulthood. Beginning with a toy seal and ending with mushrooms, this fairy tale set in modern times creeps through cruelty and violence to its inevitable end.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573661591

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The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods. Like her sisters, who appeared in Bernheimer’s first two novels (The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold), Lucy has a secret, but she is unable to fasten onto anything but brightness. Novelist Donna Tartt writes, “Lucy’s particular brand of optimism, blind to its own shadow, is very American—she is innocence holding itself apart so fastidiously that it becomes its opposite.” This novel is a perfect end to the Gold family series, and the perfect introduction, for new readers, to Bernheimer’s enchanting body of work.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0814332676

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Brothers & Beasts by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

Breaks new ground in fairy-tale studies by offering male writers a chance to reflect on their relationships to fairy tales.

Author : Catriona McAra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315390574

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A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm by Catriona McAra Pdf

Bobbing in the underworld -- When the artist's away ... -- Tanning's astonishing gaze -- Conclusion: An infinite Abyss? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Books and Articles -- Reviews -- Fiction and poetry -- Film -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Note -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Index

Author : Ann Smith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789203257

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The Girl in the Text by Ann Smith Pdf

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality. In literary and transactional texts, girls are presented as heroes who empower themselves and others with lasting effect, as figures of liberating pedagogical practice and educational activism, and as catalysts for discussions of the relationship between desire and ethics. In these varied chapters, a new notion of transnationalism emerges, one rooted not only in the process through which borders between nation-states become more porous, but through which cultural and ethnic imperatives become permeable.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Oxford Companions
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566893480

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How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer's latest collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the familiar cedes to the grotesque and nonsense just as often devolves into terror. These are fairy tales out of time, renewing classic stories we think we know, like one of Bernheimer's girls, whose hands of steel turn to flowers, leaving her beautiful but alone. Kate Bernheimer is the author of the short story collection Horse, Flower, Bird and the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the journal Fairy Tale Review.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691173672

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Grimm Legacies by Jack Zipes Pdf

In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale. Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance of stories emanating from an oral tradition, and encouraged friends, colleagues, and strangers to gather and share these tales. As a result, hundreds of thousands of wonderful folk and fairy tales poured into books throughout Europe and have kept coming. Zipes looks at the transformation of the Grimms' tales into children's literature, the Americanization of the tales, the "Grimm" aspects of contemporary tales, and the tales' utopian impulses. He shows that the Grimms were not the first scholars to turn their attention to folk tales, but were vital in expanding readership and setting the high standards for folk-tale collecting that continue through the current era. Zipes concludes with a look at contemporary adaptations of the tales and raises questions about authenticity, target audience, and consumerism. With erudition and verve, Grimm Legacies examines the lasting universal influence of two brothers and their collected tales on today's storytelling world.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0817355316

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Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

Author : Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.,Donald Haase Ph.D.,Helen J. Callow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2815 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216085362

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Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes] by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.,Donald Haase Ph.D.,Helen J. Callow Pdf

Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698136267

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xo Orpheus by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse—his cremains in a bullet. Here, in beguiling guise, are your favorite mythological figures alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, and other traditions. Aimee Bender retells the myth of the Titans. Elizabeth McCracken retells the myth of Lamia, the child-eating mistress of Zeus. Madeline Miller retells the myth of Galatea. Kevin Wilson retells the myth of Phaeton, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Emma Straub and Peter Straub retell the myth of Persephone. Heidi Julavits retells the myth of Orpheus and Euridice. Ron Currie, Jr. retells the myth of Dedalus. Maile Meloy retells the myth of Demeter. Zachary Mason retells the myth of Narcissus. Joy Williams retells the myth of Argos, Odysseus’ dog. If “xo” signals a goodbye, then xo Orpheus is a goodbye to an old way of mythmaking. Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, a squid who falls in love with the sun, and a girl who gives birth to cubs, here are extravagantly imagined, bracingly contemporary stories, heralding a new beginning for one of the world’s oldest literary traditions.

Author : Susan Redington Bobby
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786453962

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Fairy Tales Reimagined by Susan Redington Bobby Pdf

Although readers and filmgoers are strongly familiar with Disney’s sanitized child-centric fairy tales, they are quick to catch on to reworkings of classic tales into a contemporary context. The rise is such retellings seems to indicate that readers are hungry for a new narrative, one that hearkens back to the old yet moves the storyline forward to reflect conditions of the modern world. No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect social, political and cultural truths. Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers, applying a variety of perspectives, including postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer theory and gender studies. Along with the classic fairy tales, fiction from writers such as Neil Gaiman (Stardust) and Gregory Macquire (Wicked) is covered.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814341742

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Fairy Tale Review by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

The Aquamarine Issue is the fifth anniversary issue of Fairy Tale Review, and is appropriately its most oceanic, its most aesthetically diverse, issue to date. Despite this diversity the fairy tale pulse or “feel” is present in each piece in The Aquamarine Issue. What also contains this issue and holds it within the salt palace of tiny sea horses is how the narratives and poems, taken together in here, can be seen to contribute not only to the very important living body of contemporary fairy tales—so nascent and now—but also to the conversation about what constitutes “a fairy tale,” that monumental type of art.

Author : Christopher Feliciano Arnold,Anthony Cook
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781602351790

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Telling Stories, Talking Craft by Christopher Feliciano Arnold,Anthony Cook Pdf

Telling Stories, Talking Craft is a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in candid, thought-provoking interviews from the pages of Sycamore Review, Purdue University’s international journal of literature, opinion and the arts.