Tag: Fairy

Free Download Pauline Greenhill, "Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths "
English | ISBN: 0814347827 | 2020 | 264 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with science and reality understood as objective and true. But the skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from diverse perspectives―including but not limited to anti-racist, decolonial, disability, and feminist theorizing―renders this binary distinction questionable. Further, the precise content of magic and science has shifted through history and across location. Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by making magic real and reality magical.

Free Download Mayako Murai, "Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations Across Cultures "
English | ISBN: 0814345360 | 2020 | 424 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context with a special emphasis on non-Euro-American materials. Editors Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi bring together emerging and established researchers in various disciplines from around the world to decenter existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies and suggest new avenues into the increasingly complex world of fairy-tale cultures today.

Free Download Robert Bly, "More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1250158192 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 12.9 mb
National Book Award-winning poet and author of the internationally best-selling Iron John, Robert Bly revisits a selection of fairy tales and examines how these enduring narratives capture the essence of human nature.

Free Download Jack Zipes, "Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion"
English | 2011 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0415610257, 1138834807 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children’s lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children’s lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society.

Free Download Scarlett Brooks, Latoya Walker (Narrator), "Finance Fairy in High Heels: Wealth Building for Women"
English | ISBN: 9781456645106, 1456645102 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~05:04:00 | 168 MB
"Finance Fairy in High Heels: Wealth Building for Women" invites you to step into a world where financial elegance and power go hand in hand. This guide transforms the perception of money matters, offering sparkling chapters on creating a budget that accommodates your tastes and mastering savings without sacrificing elegance. From the reliability of a "little black dress" 401(k) to the daring flair of cryptocurrency, you’ll learn to dress your portfolio for every occasion.
Navigate the realms of debt, saving, and investing with sophistication, gaining insights into stocks, bonds, real estate, and career growth. Whether in love, starting a business, or aspiring to leave a legacy, the book serves as your financial matchmaker, providing guidance on relationships, startups, generational wealth, and philanthropy.
With every page, embark on a stiletto-clad march towards empowerment, equality, and fiscal confidence. This book is more than just a guide; it’s a movement-a bold and daring journey to becoming the Finance Fairy you’ve always dreamed of. Witness every aspect of your life align with the wealth you desire and deserve.

Free Download Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy, "Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu"
English | 2011 | pages: 142 | ISBN: 4902075407 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Momotarō, Click-Clack Mountain, The Sparrow Who Lost Her Tongue, The Stolen Wen, Urashima-san . . . The father reads these old tales to the children. Though he’s shabbily dressed and looks to be a complete fool, this father is a singular man in his own right. He has an unusual knack for making up stories.Once upon a time, long, long ago . . .Even as he reads the picture book aloud in a strangely imbecilic voice, another, somewhat more elaborate tale is brewing inside him.Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai’s retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children’s book. In Dazai’s hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Ojī-san to Obā-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Tarō (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious.

Free Download Ana-Maria Baciu, "Fairy Tales and the Shift in Identity Poetics from Modernism to Postmodernism"
English | ISBN: 1527522865 | 2023 | 179 pages | PDF | 898 KB
The book reveals the historical change in the function of the generic form of the fairy tale: at the beginning of the twentieth century, fairy tales are no longer written or read for their stimulus to the imagination or their nostalgia towards past times, but with a political end in view: to define a nation’s identity meant to justify and support claims to a unitary state (Romania) or an independent state (Ireland). As such, this book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics at the time of the rise of modernist nationalism at the margins of Europe.

Free Download Federica Frenna, "Rapunzel: An Interactive Fairy Tale Adventure (You Choose: Fractured Fairy Tales)"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1515787788, 1515787761 | EPUB | pages: 110 | 4.3 mb
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your…video game? Navigate your way through three different versions of the classic fairy tale. Will YOU CHOOSE the path that leads to your happily ever after?

Free Download Matt Doeden, Sabrina Miramon, "Hansel and Gretel: An Interactive Fairy Tale Adventure (You Choose: Fractured Fairy Tales)"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1515769526, 1515769445 | EPUB | pages: 111 | 5.9 mb
How much do you really know about the story of Hansel and Gretel? Was the witch that bad, or was she just sick of kids eating her out of house and home? Did Hansel and Gretel leave a trail of breadcrumbs, or did they leave space beacons behind as they explored the galaxy in their spaceship? Find your way through three different versions of the classic fairy tale. In this story, YOU CHOOSE how it ends. Will you find your happily ever after?

Free Download Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre by Jack Zipes
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415977800 | 352 Pages | PDF | 7.8 MB
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don’t, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there.