This book examines contemporary Cinderella fairy tale adaptations to argue that the traditionally passive princess has been updated for the 21st century. Using wokeness as a theoretical lens, it analyzes the Cinderella story's potentiality as a social gauge for how we construe gender, sex, agency, and power.
Everyone knows fairies love spring flowers and summer sun, but what happens when autumn comes and the days get shorter and colder? Combined with whimsical illustrations these rhyming questions will help children discover just where fairies go when it snows and offer a subtle lesson about the importance of helping one another.
Venus of Khala-Kanti is a tale of life-altering loss and mystical recovery. Set in an imaginary West African village that becomes a charming cul-de-sac, the unintended consequence of a national roadwork project gone awry, the story follows characters drawn with humor, irony, and empathy. The heart of the story beats with the laughter and tears of ......
Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire ......
''My sister's boyfriend knows a family who . . .'' ''One of my wife's colleagues has a friend who knows someone who . . .'' ''This is a true story that was forwarded to me by. . .'' ''This is not a joke!'' In this lively and engaging book, the nation's foremost expert on urban legends explores the spontaneous germination of these bizarre yet ......
Ancient and Modern Spiritual Paths and the Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau2 Rev ed 2 ed
Recent works of fiction and popular history have promoted the idea that the Holy Grail symbolizes a physical bloodline resulting from the union of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. This, supposedly, is the 'secret' that esoteric movements have kept tirelessly for the past 2,000 years. From her groundbreaking research, Sylvia Francke exposes this ......
Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl ......
"Fairy tales and sagas are comparable to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's wanderings, to be a trustworthy comrade throughout - offering comradeship, and making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!" - Rudolf Steiner (quoting Karl Julius Schroer) "There is a big difference in whether or not one ......
The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula, a Calabrian intellectual committed to the plight of his Region, provides a microhistory of life in a Southern Italian province in the decade following Unification by giving voice to the working classes and women through representation of a diverse reality ignored by the Savoyards.
