Marvelous Transformations Giveaway: Daylan's List

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Daylan was the next to submit a list of fairy tale and folklore nonfiction titles that have most influenced her for her entries in the Marvelous Transformations Giveaway.

Here are her list of titles. Thanks for sharing Daylan and especially for sharing your reasons, too. You had five entries in the giveaway!

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1. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition by Jack Zipes-
-my introduction to Jack Zipes and inspired me to read more of his work

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2. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (Norton Critical Editions) selected and edited by Jack Zipes
-served as my real introduction to some of the authors behind the tales, and I realized that some of their lives were just as interesting as their stories.

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3. The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
- I learned about the Grimms’ theory that fairy tales contained elements of myth and religion. After reading this book, I could see some of the classic fairy tales with deeper, richer meanings. It helped me to develop some of my own theories about folklore in relation to my Christian faith and worldview.

 

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4. Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
-showed me that it’s possible to have a seamless, flowing text that is both fiction and nonfiction. Ms. Warner does a superb job of retelling several stories, while always putting them in their historical and literary contexts.
-got a paradigm shift with magic carpets. I had always thought of them as small, but this book revealed to me that in one of the stories, King Solomon had his kingdom on a flying carpet.
-got a new vision of the Enlightenment. I had always thought of that timet as focused on just reason and logic, but apparently these stories were very popular during the eighteenth century.

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5. The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics by Sadhana Naithani
-I really started thinking about the unsung heroes of folklore in the nineteenth century. We know a few names of specific people in India and Africa who provided stories for the British, but we do not know all of the indigenous narrators.
-Before reading this book, I had the stereotypical idea of the Victorian British collectors as pompous and overruling, but now I see that not all of them were like that. Some wanted to empower the people, and they saw folklore as a means to do so.