Download or read book Gudgekin the Thistle Girl written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Gardner’s classic fairy-tale collection depicts a world where anything can happen—and often does A humble thistle girl, a wise old philosopher, a hapless woodchopper, and an unscrupulous king—these are the vivid protagonists of Gardner’s masterful book for children. Richly and humorously drawn, they face challenges at every turn. And in a realm where any one of these unconventional heroes might triumph, the reader will delight in expecting the unexpected! Inventive and illustrative, entertaining and edifying, these four stories demonstrate the quirky challenges of distinguishing between good and evil and living happily ever after. “A jaunty treatment of time-honored fairy tales . . . fantastic fun.” —Publishers Weekly “Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred. The form of the fairy tale is honored, but wild deviations are taken within it . . . Tables are turned this way and that, with consequences that are hilarious and wonderful.” —The New York Times Book Review John Gardner (1933–1982) was born in Batavia, New York. His critically acclaimed books include the novels Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues, and October Light, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism such as On Becoming a Novelist. He is also the author of four books for children. He was a professor of medieval literature and a pioneering creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver and Charles Johnson.
Download or read book Don t Bet on the Prince written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fairy tales and essays to appear since the women's movement gained momentum in the 1960's. He has selected works by such gifted writers as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Tanith Lee, Jay Williams, Jane Yolen, Anne Sexton, Olga Broumas and Joanna Russ-all of whom, whether they consider themselves feminists or not, have written innovative stories which seek to break the classical tradition of fairy tales. The accompanying critical essays, by Marcia Lieberman, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar and Karen Rowe, discuss how fairy tales play an important role in early socialization, influencing the manner in which children perceive the world and their place in it even before they begin to read.
Download or read book The Art of John Gardner written by Per Winther and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-10-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brothers Grimm written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise, as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts - as scholars and civil servant - toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, part social history, the Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.
Download or read book Conversations with John Gardner written by John Gardner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as ""a major contemporary writer."" After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, ""brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.
Download or read book Books That Build Character written by William Kilpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kilpatrick's recent book Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong convinced thousands that reading is one of the most effective ways to combat moral illiteracy and build a child's character. This follow-up book--featuring evaluations of more than 300 books for children--will help parents and teachers put his key ideas into practice.
Download or read book The Brothers Grimm written by J. Zipes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise, as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts - as scholars and civil servant - toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, part social history, the Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.
Download or read book The Family of Stories written by Anita Moss and published by New York ; Montreal : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1986 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthology of Children's Literature.
Download or read book Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. For this new edition, the author has revised the work throughout and added a new introduction bringing this classic title up to date.
Download or read book Understanding John Gardner written by John Michael Howell and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the imagination of a popular & prolific American writer.
Download or read book John Gardner written by Jeff Henderson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henderson analyzes all 41 of Gardner's short stories, including the neglected children's stories and the post-humously published Julius Caesar and the Werewolf (1984). Included are excerpts from an interview with Gardner, selections from one of his letters, his outline for The Warden and commentary and criticism by Howell, Cowart and other critics.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Gardner a Bibliographical Profile written by John Michael Howell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So now," writes John Gardner in his Afterword to the first annotated bibliography of works by and about him, "reading John Howell's list of 'Separate publications'--XXXI in all (however many that is)--I feel pleasure and then alarm, rolling my eyes toward the ceiling, asking God, 'Is it enough?'" The book includes a biographical sketch; a collation of the first American edition; printing histories of first American and British editions and of subsequent editions; annotated checklists of fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and letters; an annotated checklist of interviews: "I'm astonished, reading these summaries of interviews, at how often and how deeply I contradict myself"; a checklist of manuscripts and contributions to other media; secondary checklists of articles, essays, and reviews about Gardner and his works; plus photographs of assorted pages, dust jackets, and Gardner memorabilia.
Download or read book John Gardner Critical Perspectives written by Robert A. Morace and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hope they re interesting, I hope not more interesting than the fiction, says John Gardner in his Afterword to these twelve essays that probe deeply into each of his major novels, his epic poem, his children s stories, and his work as a librettist.Contents include: "Et in Arcadia Ego: "Gardner s Early Novels by David Cowart; Into the Farther Darkness: The Manichaean Pastoralism of John Gardner by Samuel Coale; A Babylonian in Batavia: Mesopotamian Literature and Lore in "The Sunlight Dialogues" " "by Greg Morris; and "Grendel "and Blake: The Contraries of Existence by Helen B. Ellis and Warren U. Ober."" John Gardner s "Grendel" " "by Jerome Klinkowitz; Survival and Redemptive Vision in "Jason and Medeia" " "by John Trimbur; Sailing Through "The King s Indian "with John Gardner and His Friends by Donald J. Greiner; Modern Moralities for Children: John Gardner s Children s Books by Geraldine DeLuca and Roni Natov. John Gardner, Librettist: A Composer s Notes by Joseph Baber; The Real Monster in "Freddy s Book" " "by Walter Cummins; Magical Prisons: Embedded Structures in the Work of John Gardner by Kathryn VanSpanckeren; and New Fiction, Popular Fiction, and John Gardner s Middle/Moral Way by Robert A. Morace."
Download or read book Handbook for Storytellers written by Caroline Feller Bauer and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1977 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers detailed guidance in presenting literature to children, young adults, and adults through storytelling supported by the use of various media.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantasy written by John Clute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Download or read book Fantasy for Children written by Ruth Nadelman Lynn and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geannoteerde lijst van kinderboeken die tussen 1900 en 1978 in Amerika en Engeland verschenen; ingedeeld naar dertien fantasiegenres
