tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post6844305517146948756..comments2024-03-28T17:20:15.155-05:00Comments on SurLaLune Fairy Tales Blog: Marvelous Transformations Giveaway: Enter for Chance to WinSurLaLune Fairy Taleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08947330164532891634noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-85119935438664162062014-01-26T14:12:52.844-06:002014-01-26T14:12:52.844-06:00Like those who have submitted before me, I find it...Like those who have submitted before me, I find it difficult to choose five but here they are:<br /><br />1. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner. An essential read for anyone interested in the history of the genre and its tellers. <br />2. The Brothers Grimm and Folktale, ed. by James M. McGlathery. <br />3. Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and the Social Visions of the Tales by Ruth Bottingheimer. <br />4. Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales, with a lovely introduction by Carter and an afterword by Marina Warner. <br />5. Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment, ed. by Marina Warner. A tribute to the French women writers who wrote and told stories along with Charles Perrault (and are now largely forgotten). <br />I've been following this blog for ever and this was a great opportunity to show my interest and appreciation. Thanks, Heidi! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14206335025373211820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-43423074587965136952014-01-25T11:29:23.969-06:002014-01-25T11:29:23.969-06:001. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales...1. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Traditions by Jack Zipes- <br /> -my introduction to Jack Zipes and inspired me to read more of his work <br /><br />2. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, selected and edited by Jack Zipes <br /> -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. <br /><br />3. The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimm’s Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.<br /> - 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.<br /><br />4. Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner<br /> -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. <br /> -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. <br /> -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.<br /><br />5. The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics by Sadhana Naithani<br /> -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. <br /> -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.<br />Daylannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-19025629443223110982014-01-24T19:45:29.367-06:002014-01-24T19:45:29.367-06:00It's so difficult to choose!
1. 'The Uses...It's so difficult to choose!<br /><br />1. 'The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales' by Bruno Bettelheim.<br />2. 'Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization' by Jack Zipes <br />3. 'Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature' by Alison Lurie <br />4. 'Morphology of the Folktale' by Vladimir Jakovlevic Propp <br />5. 'Off With Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood' by Maria Tatar CaRiiToOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235918193299700180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-27931939151696138692014-01-23T15:42:17.508-06:002014-01-23T15:42:17.508-06:00Wow some amazing reads here in the comments! I sh...Wow some amazing reads here in the comments! I shall have to take notes and add to my wishlist. Here are a couple from me. My library is pitifully small right now:<br /><br />1. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar<br />2. Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms by William J. Haynes and William G. DotyAngela R. Sasserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12236117446115598736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-27146734476061835982014-01-17T20:54:01.606-06:002014-01-17T20:54:01.606-06:001. Jack Zipes' "The Trials and Tribulatio...1. Jack Zipes' "The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood": When Zipes resembled how the tale's protagonist is defamed by victim blaming, I found it revolutionising.<br /><br />2. Marina Warner's "The Beast and the Blonde: Fairy Tales and their Tellers": Reading this book made me want to specialise in fairy tale literature for my current PhD. Its emphasis on female folklorists has not been surpassed since.<br /><br />3. Boria Sax's "The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folkore and Literature": For rediscovering that the figure of the beast is more man than animal after all.<br /><br />4. Martin Sutton's "The Sin-Complex: A Critical Study of English Versions of the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the Nineteenth Century": for introducing me to so many amazing English translations of the Grimms' text. Without these translators, the English-speaking world would never know the power of the Grimms' amazing tales.<br /><br />5. Bruno Bettelheim's "The Uses of Enchantment": For making me laugh when he called Snow White's dwarves 'stunted penises' due to their skillful penetration into dark holes and caves!Victoria Tedeschihttp://torytea.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-72177700988830936832014-01-17T11:56:27.990-06:002014-01-17T11:56:27.990-06:00Not sure if the first one counts, but I really enj...Not sure if the first one counts, but I really enjoyed it as fairy-tale nonfiction.<br />1. The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers (Sophie Raynard)<br />2. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Jack Zipes)<br />3. Post modern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies (Cristina Bacchilega)<br />4. Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings (Vanessa Joosen)<br />5. Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales (Valerie Paradiz)<br />Beth Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12412707705056624736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-56970738174775169752014-01-17T01:35:07.939-06:002014-01-17T01:35:07.939-06:00This was hard!
1. Catherine Orenstein's Litt...This was hard! <br /><br />1. Catherine Orenstein's Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. <br />2. Marina Warner's From the Beast to the Blonde.<br />3. Kate Bernheimer's Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.<br />4. Maria Tatar's The Hard Facts of the Grimm's Fairy Tales.<br />5. Nancy Canepa's Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and Franceyoustillshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04837831682803806579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-35000760434715172772014-01-16T15:38:42.282-06:002014-01-16T15:38:42.282-06:001. Trickster Makes This World (Lewis Hyde)
2. Appl...1. Trickster Makes This World (Lewis Hyde)<br />2. Apples from Heaven (Naomi Baltuck)<br />3. Oriental Stories as Tools in Psychotherapy (Nossrat Peseschkian)<br />4. The Storyteller's Journey (Joseph Sobol)<br />5. Ready-to-Tell Tales (David Holt & Bill Mooney)A Tarkabarka Hölgyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06719668142192116685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-47513502561367902342014-01-15T07:42:08.617-06:002014-01-15T07:42:08.617-06:00Only 5, that's tough!
1. Jack Zipes’ The Great...Only 5, that's tough!<br />1. Jack Zipes’ The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (2001).<br />2. Jack Zipes’ Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (2006).<br />3. Graham Anderson’s Fairytale in the Ancient world (2000).<br />4. Ruth Bottigheimer’s Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion and Paradigm (1986).<br />5. Max Lüthi’s Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales (1976).<br />Thanks Heidi!Spikeabellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00526666426161958415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-88051028942669838732014-01-14T20:45:38.207-06:002014-01-14T20:45:38.207-06:001. Women who Run with Wolves by Clarisa Pinkola Es...1. Women who Run with Wolves by Clarisa Pinkola Estes<br />2. Spinning Straw into Gold by Joan Gould<br />3. From the Beast to the Blonde by Maria Warner<br />4. Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth<br />5. The African Storyteller by Harold ScheubMichele Matucheskihttp://sweetleafnotes.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-74291852781445543062014-01-14T19:35:36.281-06:002014-01-14T19:35:36.281-06:001. Tolkien's On Fairy Stories critical edition...1. Tolkien's On Fairy Stories critical edition<br />2. Luthi's Once Upon a Time<br />3. Bacchilega's Fairy Tales Transformed<br />4. Zipes' Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion<br />5. Davidson's (Ed) Fairy Tale Companion<br /><br />Awesome opportunity!!Jennifer Culver, MAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09714719813405330193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-26739419795510875992014-01-14T13:17:34.355-06:002014-01-14T13:17:34.355-06:001. Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative st...1. Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative strategies (Cristina Bacchilega)<br />2. Don't Bet on the Prince (Jack Zipes)<br />3. Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women’s Fiction (Susan Sellers)<br />4. Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale (Cristina Bacchilega, Danielle M. Roemer)<br />5. Marvellous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale (Jessica Tiffin)Dark Faerie Queenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01405707010348214711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-91183381393059827912014-01-14T03:14:25.128-06:002014-01-14T03:14:25.128-06:001. From the Beast to the Blonde (Marina Warner)
2...1. From the Beast to the Blonde (Marina Warner) <br />2. Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (Maria Tatar)<br />3. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (Jack Zipes)<br />4. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (Maria Tatar)<br />5. Fairy Tales: A New History (Ruth Bottigheimer)<br />Thank you for this exciting opportunity! =)Franjanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13041378324952092533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934170279470612782.post-63082489202414457802014-01-14T02:19:47.280-06:002014-01-14T02:19:47.280-06:00From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
The ...From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner<br />The European Folktale: Form and Nature by Max Luthi<br />The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast by Jerry Griswold<br />Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson<br />The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno BettelheimShannon Knighthttp://shannonknight.netnoreply@blogger.com