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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kate Bernheimer , Maria Tatar , Jack Zipes , Steve AlmondPublisher: Wayne State University Press Imprint: Wayne State University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.50cm Weight: 0.280kg ISBN: 9780814332672ISBN 10: 0814332676 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 31 October 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThe writing in this collection is uniformly nimble. Would that academic writing were so sprightly."" -- ""Journal of Folklore Research"" Brothers and Beasts is a creative delight, forcing some wonderful male writers and scholars to articulate their own relationship to fairy tales. It is insightful and intensely autobiographical. --Jeannine Blackwell co-author of The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women Writers, 1780-1900 and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Kentucky The writing in this collection is uniformly nimble. Would that academic writing were so sprightly. --Journal of Folklore Research I read this enchanting collection cover-to-cover in two days. It's appealing and fresh, thoughtful and often funny; the writers reveal themselves in stunning array, naked but never tawdry. Brothers and Beasts is for anyone who likes a good tale and treasures the act of imagining. --Lydia Millet author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart and My Happy Life For thousands of years, storytellers have drawn upon fairy tales to create fictions relevant to their own times, making use of their symbolic language to explore issues of gender, class, justice, power, and cultural identity. In Brothers and Beasts, twenty-four male writers make it clear why fairy tales are still important to a wide range of storytellers today. The essays here are both whimsical and scholarly; both archly provocative and deeply moving. This superb companion to Mirror, Mirror demonstrates the ways that the stories read in childhood continue to shape us as adults and why many writers return to them long after childhood is done. --Terri Windling author of The Wood Wife and other books "Brothers and Beasts is a creative delight, forcing some wonderful male writers and scholars to articulate their own relationship to fairy tales. It is insightful and intensely autobiographical.""--Jeannine Blackwell ""co-author of The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women Writers, 1780-1900 and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Kentucky "" For thousands of years, storytellers have drawn upon fairy tales to create fictions relevant to their own times, making use of their symbolic language to explore issues of gender, class, justice, power, and cultural identity. In Brothers and Beasts, twenty-four male writers make it clear why fairy tales are still important to a wide range of storytellers today. The essays here are both whimsical and scholarly; both archly provocative and deeply moving. This superb companion to Mirror, Mirror demonstrates the ways that the stories read in childhood continue to shape us as adults and why many writers return to them long after childhood is done.""--Terri Windling ""author of The Wood Wife and other books "" I read this enchanting collection cover-to-cover in two days. It's appealing and fresh, thoughtful and often funny; the writers reveal themselves in stunning array, naked but never tawdry. Brothers and Beasts is for anyone who likes a good tale and treasures the act of imagining.""--Lydia Millet ""author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart and My Happy Life "" The writing in this collection is uniformly nimble. Would that academic writing were so sprightly.""--Journal of Folklore Research" I read this enchanting collection cover-to-cover in two days. It's appealing and fresh, thoughtful and often funny; the writers reveal themselves in stunning array, naked but never tawdry. Brothers and Beasts is for anyone who likes a good tale and treasures the act of imagining. --Lydia Millet author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart and My Happy Life For thousands of years, storytellers have drawn upon fairy tales to create fictions relevant to their own times, making use of their symbolic language to explore issues of gender, class, justice, power, and cultural identity. In Brothers and Beasts, twenty-four male writers make it clear why fairy tales are still important to a wide range of storytellers today. The essays here are both whimsical and scholarly; both archly provocative and deeply moving. This superb companion to Mirror, Mirror demonstrates the ways that the stories read in childhood continue to shape us as adults and why many writers return to them long after childhood is done. --Terri Windling author of The Wood Wife and other books Brothers and Beasts is a creative delight, forcing some wonderful male writers and scholars to articulate their own relationship to fairy tales. It is insightful and intensely autobiographical. --Jeannine Blackwell co-author of The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women Writers, 1780-1900 and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Kentucky The writing in this collection is uniformly nimble. Would that academic writing were so sprightly. --Journal of Folklore Research I read this enchanting collection cover-to-cover in two days. It's appealing and fresh, thoughtful and often funny; the writers reveal themselves in stunning array, naked but never tawdry. Brothers and Beasts is for anyone who likes a good tale and treasures the act of imagining. --Lydia Millet author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart and My Happy Life The writing in this collection is uniformly nimble. Would that academic writing were so sprightly. --Journal of Folklore Research For thousands of years, storytellers have drawn upon fairy tales to create fictions relevant to their own times, making use of their symbolic language to explore issues of gender, class, justice, power, and cultural identity. In Brothers and Beasts, twenty-four male writers make it clear why fairy tales are still important to a wide range of storytellers today. The essays here are both whimsical and scholarly; both archly provocative and deeply moving. This superb companion to Mirror, Mirror demonstrates the ways that the stories read in childhood continue to shape us as adults and why many writers return to them long after childhood is done. --Terri Windling author of The Wood Wife and other books Brothers and Beasts is a creative delight, forcing some wonderful male writers and scholars to articulate their own relationship to fairy tales. It is insightful and intensely autobiographical. --Jeannine Blackwell co-author of The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women Writers, 1780-1900 and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Kentucky Author InformationKate Bernheimer is an editor, novelist, children's book author, and assistant professor of English for the MFA Program at the University of Alabama. She also edits Fairy Tale Review, a journal that she founded. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |