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How the height of your spouse affect your marriage. Study reveals the exact number of days a person takes to decide whether to marry someone or not. Colleagues' rudeness can affect your sleep: Women are happier at their office than home, says a study. The surprising fact the colour of your tongue tells about your health! Adding honey to anything warm can be dangerous for you. Shocked by how he looked in a photo, this guy lost 25 kilos! Is female ejaculation during sex real? A study finds out. Karan Johar refusing to eat chips to stay healthy is all of us. Miss Universe winner: Miss Philippines Catriona Gray bags the title.
From Deepika Padukone to Nushrat Bharucha: Who wore what yesterday. The first transgender Miss Universe contestant, Angela Ponce. From Dia Mirza to Kartik Aaryan: Who wore what at Isha Ambani-Anand Piramal's wedding reception. The very valid reason for keeping your baby's lost tooth. Equally if not more so, the Disneyfication of fairy tales has stripped them of the power and the pain to which Moon returns. Writers and poets have also responded to the tales and, like Moon, have regularly sought to return them to their once formidable status. Women authors in particular have created powerful, sometimes heartbreaking — but always real and truthful — new versions.
Among the thousands of old tales in new clothes is the literature of second wave feminists, including the suite entitled Transformations by renegade poet Anne Sexton, who takes the domesticity of the original tales and mocks, ridicules, cherishes and — literally — transforms them. Novelist, poet and essayist, Margaret Atwood also transforms the originals.
Her response to The Girl Without Hands , which tells the story of a young woman who agrees to sacrifice her hands in order to save her father from the devil, in a poem of the same name is a profound meditation on the continuation of both abuse and survival. The fairy tales first preserved by collectors such as the Brothers Grimm - retold, bastardised, edited, annotated, banned and reclaimed - belong ultimately to the folk who first told them.
And the folk continue to tell and retell them. The show returns - once again - to fairy tales to express social concerns and anxieties surrounding issues such as the abuse of power, injustice and exploitation. Dina Goldstein, Snowy from the Fallen Princess series. Fairy tales are, indeed, good to think with, and their retellings shed light on cultural, societal and artistic movements.
May 1 marks Mother Goose Day, and to celebrate, we've compiled a list of new or soon-to-be released fairy tale retellings for adults. For the children grown old among us, here's a list of fables and fairy tales filled but I know plenty of adults who still enjoy stories about witches and princesses.
Both children and adults should read more fairy tales — both the original and the transformed versions, for they are one of our cultural touchstones. All the better to see you with: Pets in Victorian paintings — Egham, Surrey. The history of pets and family life — Egham, Surrey. Available editions United Kingdom. Marguerite Johnson , University of Newcastle. A hyena painting found in the Chauvet cave. Wikimedia images As humanity progressed, other types of stories developed.
Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham. Wikimedia images Fairy tales are also extremely moral in their demarcation between good and evil, right and wrong. Prince Frederik and Princess Mary. Wikimedia images In this tale, the beautiful Psyche is visited at night by an invisible lover — hearing only a voice — whom she is led to believe is a monster. Wikimedia images Jack and the Beanstalk , for example, tells how a chance encounter with a stranger an old man who provides magic beans can bring about terrible danger meeting a giant but also terrific good fortune acquiring a hen that lays golden eggs.
Cinderella and social criticism But tales of kings, queens, princes and princesses - of which there are many - are not only a means of mental escape for the poor. Wikimedia images In Cinderella , as recorded by Charles Perrault , the two stepsisters may have every material possession imaginable, but their cruelty renders them grotesque. Diana on her wedding day in Your donation helps deliver fact-based journalism. It is about a radical transformation in reading practices. The technology and rapid pace of critical care in hospital can often erase the patient experience.
Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil. Her words are meaningless to a man mourning his dead wife and child, but they come to pass all the same; Ronan has not been home a day before his father insists on an arranged marriage.
As he gazes into the forest, desperate for a way out, Ronan glimpses a wonderful firebird perched on a nearby branch. But his intended, the beautiful Princess Sidonie, is on her way to the palace.
Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power. All told, Deathless is a collision of magical history and actual history, of revolution and mythology, of love and death, which will bring Russian myth back to life in a stunning new incarnation. It has gone through eight editions and has been newly revised by the author for this English translation.
Caperucita en la zona roja received the Casa de las Americas Prize in Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children.
Josef Breuer—celebrated psychoanalyst—is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings—to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance. Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair.
The next morning the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. Disconnected and uninterested in their new baby boy, Emma at first seems to be exhibiting all the signs of post-partum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go far beyond that.
There he is taken by the changelings—an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left behind. He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature.
But to young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favourite costume to wear at the festival—until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgivable crime. Forced to marry a powerful foreign prince, Alyrra embarks on a journey to meet her betrothed with little hope for a better future. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment.
If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever. Rejected by her father, Eliza is flown to America by her brothers where she has a chance to save them—until she is accused of witchcraft.
Like Eliza, Elias struggles to understand the suffering he must endure. When Paama leaves him for good, she attracts the attention of the undying ones—the djombi— who present her with a gift: Unfortunately, a wrathful djombi with indigo skin believes this power should be his and his alone. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea.
Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead of ending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks it into a new beginning.
Drawing on the West African Nigeria Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed.
She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future—and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld.
While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own—populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things.
The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.
Full of visionaries and seekers, princesses and wandering poets, his fairy tales speak to the place in our psyche that inspires us with deep spiritual longing; that compels us to leave home, and inevitably to return; and that harbors the greatest joys and most devastating wounds of our heart. What if awakening the Sleeping Beauty should be the mistake of a lifetime—of several lifetimes?
What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities? Only Tanith Lee could do justice to it. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances—sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.
Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Previously available online, they have now been collected in this volume along with four new stories and an introduction by the author. A club girl from L. And Beauty learns that Beasts can understand more than men. Within these singular, timeless landscapes, the brutal and the magical collide, and the heroine triumphs because of the strength she finds in a pen, a paintbrush, a lover, a friend, a mother, and finally, in herself.
Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales are like nothing being written in Russia—or anywhere else in the world-today.