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The teeny-tiny woman
A teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in a graveyard and takes it home to make soup, but changes her mind during the night.
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Social Dreaming
Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest.In Social Dreaming , Elaine Ostry examines how these two qualities are linked through Dickens's use of the fairy tale, a genre that infuses his work.
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The teeny tiny woman
A teeny tiny woman, who puts a teeny tiny bone she finds in a churchyard away in a cupboard before she goes to sleep, is awakened by a voice demanding the return of the bone.
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Food for the Dead
These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is \"a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs\" ( The Boston Globe ). For nineteenth-century New Englanders, \"vampires\" lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead. \"A marvelous book.\" — Providence Journal Includes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.
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Jack and the beanstalk
Presents a retelling of the classic story of the boy who climbs a beanstalk and outwits a giant.
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Of Giants
A monster lurks at the heart of medieval identity, and this book seeks him out. Reading a set of medieval texts in which giants and dismemberment figure prominently, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen brings a critical psychoanalytic perspective to bear on the question of identity formation-particularly masculine identity-in narrative representation. This is a compelling inquiry into the phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to late Middle English, including Beowulf, several works by Chaucer, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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English fairy tales
A collection of more than eighty traditional stories that recount the adventures of giants, witches, princes, princesses, and animals.
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Parzival : the quest of the Grail Knight
A retelling of the Arthurian legend in which Parzival, unaware of his noble birth, comes of age through his quest for the Holy Grail.
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