Marvels & Tales Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2019 (Thinking with Stories)
Marvels & Tales is a peer-reviewed journal that is international and multidisciplinary in orientation. The journal publishes scholarly work dealing with the fairy tale in any of its diverse manifestations and contexts. Marvels & Tales provides a central forum for fairy-tale studies by scholars of literature, folklore, gender studies, children’s literature, social and cultural history, anthropology, film studies, ethnic studies, art and music history, and others.
Marvels & Tales Volume 33, Number 1 (Spring 2019)
Special Issue: Thinking with Stories
Editors’ Preface: Thinking with Stories
Neighbors and Witches in Times of Conflict: Afterthoughts and Aftereffects of Doing a Workshop at “Thinking with Stories”
Kay Turner
Sidonie de la Houssaye’s Fairy Tales: An American Lesson in Cultural Literacy
Christine A. Jones
When the Inexhaustible Purse Runs Dry: Bettina von Arnim’s “Tale of the Lucky Purse”
Julie Koehler
Kissing the Mermaid: Resistance, Adaptation, Popular Cultural Memory, and Maya Kern’s Webcomic How to Be a Mermaid
Amy Carlson
Teaching with Stories: Empathy, Relatability, and the Fairy Tale
Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman
Ancients vs. Moderns: The Women’s Riposte
Sophie Raynard
Women Soldiers’ Tales during Louis XIV’s War Conflicts
Charlotte Trinquet du Lys
Texts and Translations
Excerpt from “The House on Legs”
Danielle Wood
Hermynia zur Mühlen’s Why?
Jack Zipes
Reviews
The Annotated African American Folktales (Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar)
Gloria Respress-Churchwell
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volumes I and II (Ed. and Trans. Jack V. Haney)
Psyche Z. Ready
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition (Ed. Gretchen Schultz and Lewis Seifert)
Adrion Dula
A Hundred and One Nights (Ed. and Trans. Bruce Fudge)
Charlotte Trinquet du Lys
Le Conte populaire français: Contes merveilleux. Supplément au Catalogue de Paul Delarue et Marie-Louise Tenèze [The French Folktale: Fairy Tales. Supplement to the Catalog by Paul Delarue and Marie-Louise Tenèze] (Prepared by Josiane Bru, Ed. Bénédicte Bonnemason, Afterword by Nicole Belmont)
Catherine Velay-Vallantin
Dæmon Voices: Essays on Storytelling (Philip Pullman, Ed. Simon Mason)
Jack Zipes
Fairy Tales in the Postmodern World: No Tales for Children (Daniela Carpi)
Cora Jaeger
Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film (Laura Hubner)
Cory Thomas Hutcheson
Mixed Magic: Global-Local Dialogues in Fairy Tales for Young Readers (Anna Katrina Gutierrez)
Susan M. Strayer
Science in Wonderland (Melanie Keene)
Victoria Phelps
Simple Forms: Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairy Tale, Joke (André Jolles, Trans. Peter J. Schwartz, Foreword by Fredric Jameson)
Andrew Teverson
A Tour of Fabletown: Patterns and Plots in Bill Willingham’s Fables (Neta Gordon)
Jason Marc Harris
All the Better to See You With: Fairy Tales Transformed (Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne)
Victoria Tedeschi
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid (Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco)
Shoshana Olidort
Contributors