Modern Fairy Tales

Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192803832
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales written by Alison Lurie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.

Author : K. Towne Jr.
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN 13 : 1782497811
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Fairy Tales written by K. Towne Jr. and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insta-poet K. Towne Jr. has captured the hearts and imagination of thousands. This is his first published and illustrated collection, including his most popular works, as well as new and exclusive pieces. You said 'us'– and in that moment, I knew words were magic. Some pieces are in slam style, others more classic, but all encapsulate universal emotions and experiences – in particular, love and heartbreak. Laying out his soul in words, Brooklyn-based K. Towne Jr.'s authenticity shines through and is undoubtedly what has made his work so relatable and admired.

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534453822
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Faerie Tales written by Holly Black and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly Black’s acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series is now available in this special bind-up edition featuring all three books! Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself as an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms—a struggle that could very well mean her death. This special bind-up edition includes Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside.

Author : Elle Cruz
Publisher : Entangled: Amara
ISBN 13 : 1649371152
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Survive a Modern-Day Fairy Tale written by Elle Cruz and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Ventura is nothing like the poised and perfect heroines she reads about in her favorite romance novels. She’s a quirky, people-pleasing bookworm with a loving yet obliviously intrusive family and a passion for cookie decorating—all rolled into a five-foot-two Filipina American fueled by chamomile tea. Then she meets Nate, billionaire CEO of a global tech company, the modern-day Prince Charming who sweeps her off her feet. Though he does his best to convince Claire that he’s genuinely head over heels for her, she knows he’ll soon realize she’s more underwhelming Plain Jane than jet-setting socialite. And once he meets her family, if their initial questioning doesn’t scare him off, then their tendency to decide “what’s best for her” certainly will. Between her whirlwind romance with Nate and her meddlesome family, Claire wishes she had a fairy godmother to guide her. But this is the real world in the twenty-first century, and the only way to get her happily ever after is by grabbing firm hold of what she really wants—and letting her heart be her guide.

Author : GENEVIEVE. SNELL
Publisher : Vanguard Press
ISBN 13 : 9781800161375
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Day Fairy Tales written by GENEVIEVE. SNELL and published by Vanguard Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous poems, based on old fashioned fairy tales (albeit rather loosely), that comment on modern-day life - from online dating and first world problems, to the eating of cottage cheese in the name of being thin.

Author : Maria Adelmann
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316450820
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be Eaten written by Maria Adelmann and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? ​Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. *Belletrist June Book Club Pick* Named a Best Book of May by TIME Magazine & Glamour One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152306
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fairies Return written by Peter Davies and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satirical look at fourteen classic fairy tales retells such stories as "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "The Little Mermaid."

Author : Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081433928X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairy Tales Transformed? written by Cristina Bacchilega and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a "fairy-tale web" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century. Dealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults, Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine, their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems, and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres. Bacchilega begins by assessing changes in contemporary understandings and adaptations of the Euro-American fairy tale since the 1970s, and introduces the fairy-tale web as a network of reading and writing practices with a long history shaped by forces of gender politics, capitalism, and colonialism. In the chapters that follow, Bacchilega considers a range of texts, from high profile films like Disney's Enchanted, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard to literary adaptations like Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, and Bill Willingham's popular comics series, Fables. She looks at the fairy-tale web from a number of approaches, including adaptation as "activist response" in Chapter 1, as remediation within convergence culture in Chapter 2, and a space of genre mixing in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 connects adaptation with issues of translation and stereotyping to discuss mainstream North American adaptations of The Arabian Nights as "media text" in post-9/11 globalized culture. Bacchilega's epilogue invites scholars to intensify their attention to multimedia fairy-tale traditions and the relationship of folk and fairy tales with other cultures' wonder genres. Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004418997
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences.

Author : Gretchen Schultz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191417
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned written by Gretchen Schultz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.