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Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk T...This book, first published in 1937, collects together traditional Chinese fair... This book, first published in 1937, collects together traditional Chinese fairy tales, taken down word for word as they were related to the author by one of China's foremost scholars. moreDetails
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Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoa...At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker ... At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such a moreDetails
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Don't Bet on the Prince: Conte...Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fair... Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fairy tales and essays to appear since the women's movement gained momentum in the 1960's. He has selected works by such gifted writers as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Ta moreDetails
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The Fairy TaleOne of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back... One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the w moreDetails
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Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales: ...This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales... This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. moreDetails
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Fairy TaleThis volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to th... This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It:explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in t moreDetails
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The Routledge Companion to Med...From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides ... From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, moreDetails
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The Fairy Tale WorldThe Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The b... The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narr moreDetails
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Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney...The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres intern... The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres internationally, thanks in large part to its many manifestations on screen. Yet the history and relevance of the fairy-tale film have largely been neglected. In this follow-up moreDetails
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Fairytale in the Ancient WorldIn this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks... In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those moreDetails
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Sub...The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences... The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales u moreDetails
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Fairy-Tale TVThis concise and accessible critical introduction examines the world of popula... This concise and accessible critical introduction examines the world of popular fairy-tale television, tracing how fairy tales and their social and cultural implications manifest within series, television events, anthologies, and episodes, and as moreDetails
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The Enchanted Screen: The Unkn...The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a... The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compil moreDetails
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The Collected Sicilian Folk an...Giuseppe Pitrè, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous ... Giuseppe Pitrè, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from friends and scholars throughout the island of Sicily. moreDetails
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Deliberation with Chinese Char...Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally ass... Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally associated with deliberative democracy to involve their citizenry in decision-making at a sub-national level.Despite the tightening of civil society under Xi there moreDetails
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Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide ...Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the soc... Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.This book draws the reader deep into eight stories: a Christian-J moreDetails
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The Green City and Social Inju...The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental tr... The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period. It analyses the circumstances under which greening interventions can create a new set o moreDetails
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Turkish Language, Literature, ...The twenty two essays collected in Turkish Language, Literature and History of... The twenty two essays collected in Turkish Language, Literature and History offer insights into Turkish culture in the widest sense. Written by leaders in their fields from North America, Europe and Turkey, these essays cover a broad rang moreDetails
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The Displaced Rohingyas: A Tal...This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in ... This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenges of the crisis, along with the discourses that have developed on this issue via the local and inter moreDetails
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The Operated Jew and The Opera...Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by... Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender). In Panizza's chilling story, The O moreDetails
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The Social Life of Nothing: Si...Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in ou... Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understa moreDetails
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The Archaeology of Mothering: ...Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, ... Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. moreDetails
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Goddess Traditions in India: T...This book on the Tripurārahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a... This book on the Tripurārahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Śākta literature, is a study of the Śrīvidyā and Śākta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ag moreDetails
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Clan-Albin: A National Tale: b...Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815... Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott's Waverley; or 'tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as edito moreDetails
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Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale o..."Metromarxism" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s t... "Metromarxism" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical chapters on figures from the Marxist tradition, including Marx, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and David Harvey. Each chapter combines moreDetails
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Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten...Alison Mc Queen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the ... Alison Mc Queen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing moreDetails
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Bullied: Tales of Torment, Ide...In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth, compel... In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth, compelling first person stories vividly convey the lived experience of peer torment and how it impacted the lives of five diverse young women. Author Keith Berry's own autoeth moreDetails
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Co-Crafting the Just City: Tal...The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning facu... The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor.In this new book, former Iowa City Mayor and Professor Emeritus James A. Throgmorto moreDetails
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Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Can...This book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned ... This book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the south-western province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture of official compliance in the systematic killin moreDetails
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Interdisciplinary and Transdis...Unlike other volumes in the current literature, this book provides insight for... Unlike other volumes in the current literature, this book provides insight for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners on what doesn't work. Documenting detailed case studies of project failure matters, not o moreDetails
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