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Marvels & Tales Marvels & Tales Volume 17 | Issue 2 Article 9 10-1-2003 Index Marvels & Tales Editors Recommended Citation Editors, Marvels & Tales. "Index." Marvels & Tales 17.2 (2003). Web. <http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol17/iss2/9>. 140 M&T index (297-298) 7/1/03 9:58 AM Page 297 INDEX TO VOLUME 17 (2003) Articles Böhl de Faber, Cecilia, The Souls in Purgatory (trans. Robert M. Fedorchek), 258–61 Bodmer, George, Arthur Hughes, Walter Crane, Valera, Juan, The Queen Mother (trans. Robert and Maurice Sendak: The Picture as M. Fedorchek), 262–68 Literary Fairy Tale, 120–37 Zipes, Jack, Laura Gonzenbach and Her Canepa, Nancy L., “Entertainment for Little Forgotten Treasure of Sicilian Fairy Tales, Ones”? Basile’s Lo cunto de li cunti and the 239–50 Childhood of the Literary Fairy Tale, 37–54 Chainani, Soman, Sadeian Tragedy: The Reviews Politics of Content Revision in Angela Carter’s “Snow Child,” 212–35 Altmann, Anna E., and Gail de Vos, Tales, Ewers, Hans-Heino, Male Adolescence in Then and Now: More Folktales as Literary German Fairy-Tale Novellas of the Fictions for Young Adults (Victoria G. Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Dworkin), 280–83 Biedermeier, 75–85 Bernheimer, Kate, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Jones, Christine, The Poetics of Enchantment Gold (Helen Pilinovsky), 175–78 (1690–1715), 55–74 Blackburn, Stuart, Moral Fictions: Tamil Knoepflmacher, U. C., Introduction: Literary Folktales in Oral Tradition (S. Carlos), Fairy Tales and the Value of Impurity, 275–77 15–36 Braid, Donald, Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Martin, Laura, The Rübezahl Legend in Shaped through Stories (W. F. H. Nicolaisen), Benedikte Naubert and Johann Karl August 288–92 Musäus, 197–211 Conger, Bill, cur., PixerinaWITCHERINA, cat. McGillis, Roderick, “A Fairytale Is Just a Bill Conger, Maria Tatar, and Jan Susina Fairytale”: George MacDonald and the (Jessie Lawson), 178–81 Queering of Fairy, 86–99 Curry, Linda Soon, A Tiger by the Tail and Nikolajeva, Maria, Fairy Tale and Fantasy: Other Stories from the Heart of Korea, ed. From Archaic to Postmodern, 138–56 Chan-eung Park (Victoria G. Dworkin), Susina, Jan, “Like the fragments of coloured 157–61 glass in a kaleidoscope”: Andrew Lang Del Giudice, Luisa, and Gerald Porter, eds., Mixes Up Richard Doyle’s In Fairyland, Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, and 100–19 Longing in Oral Cultures (Jennifer Schacker), 285–87 Texts & Translations Fleming, Robert Loren, and Robert F. Boyd, Jr., adapt., The Big Book of Urban Legends by Amin, Jhanara, The Golden Necklace (trans. Jan Harold Brunvand (Normie Salvador), Wahid Omar), 251–57 269–72 297 140 M&T index (297-298) 7/1/03 9:58 AM Page 298 INDEX TO VOLUME 17 (2003) Hansen, William, Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to Vathanaprida, Supaporn, ret. Thai Tales: International Tales Found in Classical Folktales of Thailand, ed. Margaret Read Literature (Debbie Felton), 278–80 MacDonald (Victoria G. Dworkin), 157–61 Heiner, Heidi Anne, SurLaLune: Fairy Tale Vigil, Angel, The Eagle on the Cactus: Pages (Stephen Canham), 284–85 Traditional Stories from Mexico, Francisco Jarvis, Shawn C., and Jeannine Blackwell, eds. Miraval, trans. (Victoria G. Dworkin), and trans., The Queen’s Mirror: Fairy Tales by 157–61 German Women, 1780–1900 (Danielle M. Roemer), 161–64 Reviewers Louis, Liliane Nérette, When Night Falls, Kric! Canham, Stephen, 284–85 Krac! Haitian Folktales, ed. Fred J. Hay Carlos, S., 275–77 (Victoria G. Dworkin), 157–61 Duggan, Anne E., 166–69 Mainil, Jean, Madame d’Aulnoy et le rire des Dworkin, Victoria G., 157–61, 280–83 fées: essai sur la subversion féerique et le Felton, Debbie, 278–80 merveilleux comique sous l’Ancien Régime Friederich, Reinhard, 272–75 (Anne E. Duggan), 166–69 Harries, Elizabeth Wanning, 164–66 McNeil, Heather, The Celtic Breeze: Stories of Lawson, Jessie, 178–81 the Otherworld from Scotland, Ireland, and Nicolaisen, W. F. H., 288–92 Wales (Victoria G. Dworkin), 157–61 Noyes, Dorothy, 169–75 Reiniger, Lotte, dir., The Adventures of Prince Pilinovsky, Helen, 175–78 Achmed (Louise Speed), 181–83 Roemer, Danielle M., 161–64 Rubini, Luisa, Fiabe e mercanti in Sicilia. La Salvador, Normie, 269–72 raccolta di Laura Gonzenbach. La comunità di Schacker, Jennifer, 285–87 lingua tedesca a Messina nell’Ottocento Speed, Louise, 181–83 (Dorothy Noyes), 169–75 Sellers, Susan, Myth and Fairy Tale in Miscellaneous Contemporary Women’s Fiction (Elizabeth Wanning Harries), 164–66 Contributors, 185–87, 294–96 Spagnoli, Cathy, and Paramasivam Samanna, Critical Exchanges, 184, 293 Jasmine and Coconuts: South Indian Tales Editorial Policy, 9, 193 (Victoria G. Dworkin), 157–61 From the Editor, 11 Suwyn, Barbara J., ret., The Magic Egg and Guidelines for Submission, 10, 194 Other Tales from Ukraine, ed. Natalie O. Kononenko (Victoria G. Dworkin), 157–61 Vankin, Jonathan, The Big Book of Grimm by the Grimm Brothers as Channeled by Jonathan Vankin & Over 50 Top Comic Artists (Reinhard Friederich), 272–75 298.
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