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Snow White and Postpartum Depression—Evelyn Alva Hidalgo, Guest Blogger
Today, we share a post by a student in our Fall 2020 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. My name is Evelyn Alva Hidalgo. I have a B.A....
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Cramer & Del George
Oct 2, 20201 min
Kate Bernheimer: Fairy Tales as Tales of Survival
Fairy-tale writer and scholar Kate Bernheimer always inspires. She wrote the modern fairy tale collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a...
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Cramer & Del George
Jul 4, 20201 min
Black Cinderella
In 1997, Brandy starred as Cinderella in a remake of the 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical co-produced by Whitney Houston, who also...
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Cramer & Del George
Jun 24, 20203 min
Computer Games and Max Lüthi’s Abstract Style —Derek T. Jones, Guest Blogger
Today, we share a response by author and computer engineer Derek T. Jones to a selection of Max Lüthi's work that is included in Maria...
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Cramer & Del George
May 5, 20201 min
The Hans Christian Andersen Award Winners for 2020
Every other year, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) honors an author and an illustrator with the Hans Christian...
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Jan 19, 20201 min
Wisława Szymborska and the Ageless Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
In “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear,” writer Maria...
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Dec 11, 20193 min
“The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure”: An Inkling of What is to Come in Cather’s Fiction
In August, 1896, a literary fairy tale called “The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure” by Charles Douglass appeared In The Home Monthly...
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Dec 5, 20192 min
The Trees of Knowledge: Willa Cather’s Use of the Fairy Tale
As Marilyn Berg Callander writes in Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale, “Cather’s imaginings were shaped by myth: her childhood reading was...
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Dec 3, 20191 min
A School for "Magic-Seekers and Folklore-Lovers"
In 2016, folklorists and fairy tale scholars Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman created an online community for “magic-seekers and...
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Cramer & Del George
Nov 25, 20191 min
The Siblings Bernheimer Curate Fairy Tale Architecture
Sister-brother team, author Kate Bernheimer and architect Andrew Bernheimer began collaborating in 2011 on a series for Places Journal...
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Cramer & Del George
Nov 16, 20192 min
Minding the Matter in Fairy Tales
To lengthen our list of Latin American fairy tales, I (Dana) considered including the Tradiciones peruanas (Peruvian Traditions) of...
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Oct 30, 20192 min
The Literary Imagination of L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum’s literary imagination is firmly woven into the American fabric. He will be forever remembered for his story The Wonderful...
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Cramer & Del George
Oct 26, 20191 min
Watch Our Visit to H.C. Andersen's Denmark
In October of 2019, we went to Denmark to see where Hans Christian Andersen lived. We visited Odense, where he grew up, and Copenhagen,...
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Oct 23, 20191 min
A Tour of GRIMMWELT (Grimm World) Museum
On October 11, 2019, we toured the wonderful GRIMMWELT (Grimm World) Museum in Kassel, Germany. Kassel is considered the capital of the...
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Oct 20, 20191 min
Watch Our Fairy Tale Route Video
In October, 2019, we drove the German Fairy Tale Route and captured some of the highlights and our impressions along the way.
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Oct 10, 20192 min
The French Sisters Who Informed the Grimm Brothers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are famous for putting into writing tales from the oral tradition, which were often told to them by women. Marie...
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Cramer & Del George
Oct 3, 20192 min
José Saramago's Modern Fairy Tales
Shortly before he received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, Portuguese author José Saramago published a fairy tale called The Tale of...
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Oct 3, 20192 min
The Undeniable Charm of Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories
In the story “How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country” by American poet and writer Carl Sandburg, the main character Gimme the...
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Cramer & Del George
Sep 25, 20192 min
Scheherazade Lately
Long-lasting and wide-ranging is the fame of Scheherazade, the legendary Arabian storyteller. Scheherazade’s 1001 cliffhangers saved her...
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Sep 21, 20192 min
Louisa May Alcott: a Spinner of Fairy Tales
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) loved to spin fairy tales. The prolific, 19th-century writer is perhaps best known for writing the timeless...
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