Download or read book Love Power and Gender in Seventeenth Century French Fairy Tales written by Bronwyn Reddan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Download or read book A Fairy Tale about Love written by Xia Jiajia and published by Artpower International Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wedding is an invitation for friends and family to witness the strength of a couple's love. As such, even the tiniest details require careful attention, to ensure that the occasion reaches its full potential. Whether you are a wedding planning company, a graphic designer, or a spouse-to-be, this book is a necessity! The Devil may be in the details, but it's the small stuff that will make your big day. Wedding invitations, RSVPs, save the date cards, posters, thank you cards and table cards... These small but essential items express the lovers' personalities, making each wedding a unique experience. This book is dedicated to the minutiae of a wedding, exploring how these seemingly-insignificant pieces are actually the backbone of the event, consolidating the wedding's theme and providing continuity throughout. Containing over 100 pictures from marriage ceremonies across the world, A Fairy Tale about Love aims to show its readers all the latest styles. Creative, elegant, and modern, these beautiful works are a feast for the eyes. The book also displays the design concept, design style and printing process behind each piece, making it a excellent reference book. SELLING POINTS: * Focusses on the 'small stuff' necessary for a smooth and unique wedding operation: the wedding invitations, the table cards, etc. * A sumptuously illustrated guide that will inspire and intrigue 400 colour images
Download or read book Romantic Fairy Tales written by Carol Tully and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe's richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795) depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful man and woman, whose union heralds a new age. In Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1797) two outsiders seek refuge in the solitude of dark woods to conceal their incestuous passion from the world, while in Fouque's Undine (1811) a water nymph falls in love and acquires a soul, and so discovers the reality of human suffering. And Brentano's Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817) portrays the tragedy of a young couple, destroyed by a false sense of honour and pride.
Download or read book Write Your Own Fairy Tale written by Siggy Flicker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Siggy Flicker knows that happily-ever-after isn’t a guarantee. You have to work for it. Readers will get a tried-and-true comprehensive guide to the first six months of dating and Siggy’s exclusive plan to get over heartbreak ensuring you’ll get from agony to over it in just six simple steps. Smart and sassy relationship expert Siggy Flicker is your new fairy godmother. Having matched more than a thousand couples and embraced her own second chance at love, she knows finding a prince is no picnic. Now she’s sharing the keys to building a fairy-tale romance, beginning with an honest assessment of what you really want to be happy. To help readers create the healthy, lasting relationships they deserve, Siggy is sharing her honest, empowering advice, including: • Define the relationship you want. • Forget what looks good “on paper.” • Take a break from your dating rut with a Dating Detox. • Learn how to make the most of the first five minutes. • Happily ever after means forever. Featuring practical exercises, real-life success stories, and lessons Siggy learned the hard way, Write Your Own Fairy Tale is a wake-up call for everyone looking for love—and a guide for making sure you get the happiness you truly deserve.
Download or read book The Sleeping Beauty written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MERCEDES LACKEY'S magical A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series continues with a captivating new adventure… Heavy is the head—and the eyelids—of the princess who wears the crown… In Rosamund's realm, happiness hinges on a few simple beliefs. For every princess there's a prince. The King has ultimate power. Stepmothers should never be trusted. And bad things come to those who break with Tradition…. But when Rosa is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Determined to escape and save her kingdom from imminent invasion, she agrees to become the subject of one of her stepmother's risky incantations—thus falling into a deep, deep sleep. When awakened by a touchy-feely stranger, Rosa must choose between Tradition and her future between a host of eligible princes and a handsome, fair-haired outsider. And learn the difference between being a princess and ruling as a Queen.
Download or read book Decoding Love written by Andrew S. Trees and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales and romantic stories have shaped our thinking about relationships for centuries. Researchers today are making fascinating, and often shocking, discoveries about how, why, and when we choose our partners.
Download or read book Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture written by Kate Christine Moore Koppy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy argues that the increasing popularity and presence of fairy tales within American culture is both indicative of and contributing to this shift. By analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches, Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of American secular scripture, a corpus of shared stories that work to maintain a sense of community among diverse audiences in the United States, as much as biblical scripture and associated texts used to.
Download or read book A Tangled Web written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapping Persephone should have been an easy task. But in the Five Hundred Kingdoms, nothing's ever simple—and the wrong blonde goddess is stolen by mistake, leaving Prince Leopold without his new bride. At least until he braves the realm of the dead to get her back... A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms novella. Previously published in the Harvest Moon anthology.
Download or read book Where Fairy Tales Go written by Annette Ross and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational memoir told by a dynamic mother of five, Annette Ross recounts the harrowing and life-altering medical error that left her unable to walk. Resilient in the face of personal challenges, crises of faith and financial struggles, Annette and her family embark on a journey to reclaim a lost fairy tale.
Download or read book Fairy Tale written by Cyn Balog and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Sparks and her boyfriend Cam have been best friends since they were children, but just before their shared sixteenth birthday Cam confesses that he is a fairy who was switched at birth with a human child, and now the fairies want to switch them back.
Download or read book The Black Swan written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his wife's untimely death, a powerful sorcerer dedicates his life to seeking revenge against all womankind. He turns his captives into beautiful swans--who briefly regain human form by the fleeting light of the moon. Only Odette, noblest of the enchanted flock, has the courage to confront her captor. But can she gain the allies she needs to free herself and the other swan-maidens from their magical slavery?A monumental tale of loyalty and betrayal, of magic good and evil, of love both carnal and pure, and of the duality of human nature, The Black Swan is a rich tapestry which is sure to become an all-time masterpiece of fantasy.
Download or read book Men and Gods written by Rex Warner and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales written by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in English Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the “Cinderfellas” in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book When Fairy Tale Romances Break Real Hearts written by Kimberley Heart and published by Hj Kramer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted psychotherapist's proven methods for creating loving, functional and sustainable relationships. To help readers implement real and lasting change, Heart presents a series of powerful, original exercises which address themes such as the change process, forgiveness, loneliness, intimacy, sexuality, and more.
Download or read book Maiden Princess written by Daniel Haack and published by little bee books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern fairy tale, a strong, brave maiden is invited to attend the prince's royal ball, but at the dance, she ends up finding true love in a most surprising place. "The prince is smart and strong," she confided in her mother. "But if I'm being honest, I see him as a brother." Her mother said, "Just go! And have a bit of fun. The prince might not be right, but you could meet the one." Once in a faraway kingdom, a strong, brave maiden is invited to attend the prince's royal ball, but she's not as excited to go as everyone else. After her mother convinces her to make an appearance, she makes a huge impression on everyone present, from the villagers to the king and queen, but she ends up finding true love in a most surprising place. This book is published in partnership with GLAAD to accelerate LGBTQ inclusivity and acceptance.
Download or read book The Complete Grimm s Fairy Tales written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time in a fairy tale world, There were magical mirrors and golden slippers;Castles and fields and mountains of glass,Houses of bread and windows of sugar.Frogs transformed into handsome Princes,And big bad wolves into innocent grandmothers.There were evil queens and wicked stepmothers;Sweethearts, true brides, and secret lovers. In the same fairy world, A poor boy has found a golden key and an iron chest, and " We must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid . . ." A classic collection of timeless folk tales by Grimm Brothers, Grimm' s Fairy Tales are not only enchanting, mysterious, and amusing, but also frightening and intriguing. Delighting children and adults alike, these tales have undergone several adaptations over the decades. This edition with black-and-white illustrations is a translation by Margaret Hunt.
Download or read book Faerie Tale written by Raymond E. Feist and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy is incredibly accident-prone, and holds the dubious record of the most accidents. Percy has had a small rivalary with Harold, however, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.
