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The girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making
Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants from the enchanted woods.
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I hate Fairyland. Volume four, Sadly never after
As Gert navigates a fairy-tale netherworld with a capital \"H,\" Fairyland's baddies brood and brew to revitalize a rotten ruler. Can Fairyland hope to survive the coming storm when the only people trying to save it are the mastermind tag team of Larry and Duncan Dragon? Are the fates of Gertrude and the land she loves to hate more intertwined than anyone expected?
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From Fairy Host to Mutant Community: The “Singular” Changeling in Folklore, Medical Discourse, and Theories of Evolutionary Change
The socially and biologically diverse “Fairyland” we find in legends represented to those who believed in supernatural agency both an alternative model for social relations and a metaphor for the unpredictable nature of life, including sudden physical transformation. The changeling legend—in which a healthy human is exchanged for a malformed fairy—played a significant role not only in traditional “diagnoses” for congenital malformation but also in contemplating evolutionary change. Science-fiction authors like Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson, Paul McAuley, and Harlan Ellison appear to have adapted the legend to reimagine the versatile folkloric changeling as a potential model in a technologically advanced environment, where sympathy and hospitality are often pushed to the wayside. In highlighting humanity's changeling status, these authors encourage us to reverence those earth-dwelling denizens that possibly gave us our ethos in the first place.
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Nature's Invisibilia: The Victorian Microscope and the Miniature Fairy
During the Victorian period, the concept of miniature worlds, invisible to the eye but ever-present to the imagination, captivated both readers of microscopic literature and audiences of fairy texts. The convergence of scale between the microscope and the fairy fostered a strong imaginative link between the two. Natural scientists used the imagery of fairyland to convey the incomprehensible strangeness and minutiae of the microscopic world, while fairy authors and illustrators drew upon microscopic discoveries to lend a sense of reality to their unbelievable imaginings. This essay traces the connection between the microscope and the fairy through scientific and fantastic literature, before culminating in an examination of fairy science texts that directly combine the two.
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Fairyland-Emphasizing Effect of the Ancient Taoist Architecture for Wudang Mountain in Hubei Province
The Fairyland-emphasizing effect of the ancient Taoist architecture in Wudang Mountain is analyzed in the present paper. To this purpose, the different location selection of the “human world”, the “spirit mountain” and the “kingdom of heaven” is employed. Specifically, the “spirit’s world” are always constructed on a geographical dangerous site in the mountains in the forms of huge-scale ancient architectures. These architectures are always featured by their unique architectural details and marvelous plan. The Nanyan and the Taihe Palace in Wudang Mountains are taken as two studying case at the end of the paper, to analyze the fairyland-emphasizing effect of the Taoist ancient architectures.
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John R. Neill: Illustrator (and Author) of L. Frank Baum's Queer Oz
Acknowledgments 1 thank Suzan Alteri and Michele Wilbanks of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, Department of Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida Smathers Library, for their invaluable assistance in researching John R. Neill's illustrations of Oz, as well as for the Baldwin Library's assistance in securing images from the early editions of Baum's novels. 1 also thank John Venecek of the University of Central Florida Library for some timely advice.
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Making Use of “Nature” in an Outdoor Preschool: Classroom, Home and Fairyland
In Swedish preschools, visits to nature environments are traditionally seen as important, and during the past two decades, interest in outdoor education has increased. This article concerns different ways of talking about and making use of nature in everyday activities in a Swedish preschool with an outdoor focus. The researcher studied 32 children between 1 ½ and 6 years old and their teachers during a one-year period. The data collected include ethnographic material such as video observations, interviews and local documents. The analysis indicates that nature is used in three ways: as a classroom where children learn about nature, as a home—a peaceful place for eating, sleeping and playing, and as an enchanted world, a fairyland.
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Warlike Heroines in the Persian Alexander Tradition: The Cases of Arāqīt and Burāndukht
The eleventh-century Iskandar-nāma and the twelfth-century Dārāb-nāma are discussed as examples of the epic prose romance in classical Persian literature, with Arāqit in the first, and Burāndukht in the second, as examples of warlike women. The similarities and differences in the roles of these two heroines in their relationships to Alexander are examined, first, as adversaries, and then, as lovers, of the king.
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