Politicizing Magic
| Author | : Marina Balina |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2005-10-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0810120321 |
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The Politics of Magic
| Author | : Qinna Shen |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2015-06-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0814339042 |
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Shen's study will be significant reading for teachers and students of folklore studies and for scholars of German, Eastern European, cultural, film, media, and gender studies.
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141392541 |
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'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also includes an appendix, bibliography and notes. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler With Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson
Marvelous Transformations
| Author | : Christine A. Jones |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2012-10-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1554810434 |
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Marvelous Transformations is an anthology of tales and original critical essays that moves beyond canonized “classics” and old paradigms, documenting the points of historical connection between literary tales and field-based collections. This innovative anthology reflects current interdisciplinary scholarship on oral traditions and the cultural history of the print fairy tale. In addition to the tales, original critical essays, newly written for this volume, introduce readers to differing perspectives on key ideas in the field.
Magical Realism
| Author | : Lois Parkinson Zamora |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780822316404 |
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On magical realism in literature
A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film
| Author | : Olga Voronina |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 521 |
| Release | : 2019-10-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9004414398 |
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A Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film offers a comprehensive and innovative analysis of Soviet literary and cinematic production for children. Its contributors contextualize and reevaluate Soviet children’s books, films, and animation and explore their contemporary re-appropriation by the Russian government, cultural practitioners, and educators. Celebrating the centennial of Soviet children’s literature and film, the Companion reviews the rich and dramatic history of the canon. It also provides an insight into the close ties between Soviet children’s culture and Avant-Garde aesthetics, investigates early pedagogical experiments of the Soviet state, documents the importance of translation in children’s literature of the 1920-80s, and traces the evolution of heroic, fantastic, historical, and absurdist Soviet narratives for children.
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
| Author | : Jack Zipes |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 757 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0199689822 |
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This Oxford companion provides an authoritative reference source for fairy tales, exploring the tales themselves, both ancient and modern, the writers who wrote and reworked them and related topics such as film, art, opera and even advertising.
Picturing the Page
| Author | : Megan Swift |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2020-05-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442667427 |
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Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children’s literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin – a period when mass publishing for children and universal public education became available for the first time in Russia. By analysing the illustrations in fairy tales, classic "adult" literature reformatted for children, and war-time picture books, Megan Swift elucidates the vital and multifaceted function of illustrated children’s literature in repurposing the past. Picturing the Page demonstrates that while the texts of the past remained fixed, illustrations could slip between the pages to mediate and annotate that past, as well as connect with anti-religious, patriotic, and other campaigns that were central to Soviet children’s culture after the 1917 Revolution.
The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World
| Author | : Wendy C. Turgeon |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3031603737 |
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The Gamification of Digital Journalism
| Author | : David O. Dowling |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2020-11-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0429667043 |
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This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of newsgames, a genre that has emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and interactives augmenting digital journalism into full-fledged immersive video games from open-world designs to virtual reality experiences. Critics have raised questions about the credibility and ethics of transforming serious news stories of political consequence into entertainment media, and the risks of trivializing grave and catastrophic events into mere games. Dowling explores both the negatives of newsgames, and how the use of entertainment media forms and their narrative methods mainly associated with fiction can add new and potentially more powerful meaning to news than traditional formats allow. The book also explores how industrial and cultural shifts in the digital publishing industry have enabled newsgames to evolve in a manner that strengthens certain core principles of journalism, particularly advocacy on behalf of marginalized and oppressed groups. Cutting-edge and thoughtful, The Gamification of Digital Journalism is a must-read for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in multimedia journalism and immersive storytelling.
