Beyond the Glass Slipper: Ten Neglected Fairy Tales To Fall In

Beyond the Glass Slipper: Ten Neglected Fairy Tales To Fall In Love With

Some fairy tales everyone knowsâ€”these arenâ€™t those tales. These are tales of kings who get deposed and pigs who get married. These are ten tales, much neglected. Editor of Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine, Kate Wolford, introduces and annotates each tale in a manner that wonâ€™t leave novices of fairy tale studies lost in the woods to grandmotherâ€™s house, yet with a depth of research and a delight in posing intriguing puzzles that will cause folklorists and savvy readers to find this collection a delicious new delicacy.

Beyond the Glass Slipper is about more than just reading fairy talesâ€”itâ€™s about connecting to them. Itâ€™s about thinking of the fairy tale as a precursor to Saturday Night Live as much as it is to any princess-movie franchise: the tales within these pages abound with outrageous spectacle and absurdist vignettes, ripe with humor that pokes fun at ourselves and our society.

Never stuffy or pedantic, Kate Wolford proves sheâ€™s the college professor you always wish you had: smart, nurturing, and plugged into pop culture. Wolford invites us into a discussion of how these tales fit into our modern cinematic lives and connect the larger body of fairy tales, then asksâ€”no, insistsâ€”that we create our own theories and connections. A thinking manâ€™s first step into an ocean of little known folklore.
Country USA
Manufacturer World Weaver Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-17
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	World Weaver Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-17
Format	Kindle eBook

Beyond the Glass Slipper: Ten Neglected Fairy Tales To Fall In Love With

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