Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws
Wayne State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8143-4069-1 (ISBN)
Schacker and Jones choose stories that represent several centuries and cultural perspectives on how animals think and move. In these ten stories rats are just as seductive as Little Red Riding Hood’s wolf, snakes find human mates, and dancing sheep and well-mannered bears blur the line between human and beast. Stories range in form from literary ballads to tales that are long enough to be considered short stories, and all are presented as closely as possible to their original print versions, reflecting the use of historical spelling and punctuation. Beasts move between typical animal behavior (a bird seeking to spread its wings and fly or a clever cat artfully catching its prey) and acts that seem much more human than beastly (three fastidious bears keeping a tidy home together or a snake inviting itself to the dinner table). Kusaite’s full-color artwork rounds out this collection, drawing imaginatively on a wide range of visual traditions —from Inuit design to the work of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
Together with the short introductions to the tales themselves, the illustrations invite readers to rediscover the fascinating world of animal fairy tales. All readers interested in storytelling, fairy-tale history, and translation will treasure this beautiful collection.
Jennifer Schacker is associate professor of English at University of Guelph and author of National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England.Christine A. Jones is associate professor of French at the University of Utah and author of Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France. Jones and Schacker are longtime collaborators and co-editors of Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Lina Kusaite> is an illustrator, designer, and art/life coach based in Brussels, Belgium. Her work has appeared in a wide range of international publications, computer games, and exhibitions, and was selected for display in Times Square as part of the see.me 2014 ""seemetakeover"" event. Kusaite’s website is www.behance.net/cocooncharacters.
Reihe/Serie | Series in Fairy-Tale Studies |
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Zusatzinfo | 27 illustrations |
Verlagsort | Detroit, MI |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 676 g |
Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8143-4069-5 / 0814340695 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8143-4069-1 / 9780814340691 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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