Retold Fairy Tales

Había...¿una vez?: Los cuentos de hadas y la construcción del mito de la historia mexicana en Los recuerdos del porvenir

by Sara Potter

‘Robert Walser: Lange wohnte sie nun schon im Turm der Geduld'

by Valerie Heffernan

in: Prose Project: Irish Germanists interpret German Short and Very Short Narrative Texts, ed. by Florian Krobb and Jeff Morrison, Germanistik in Ireland Schriftenreihe Vol. 1, (Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre, 2008), pp.133–140.

Let Sleeping Beauties Lie- From The Insensate to the Sadomasochistic Nature of Sleeping Beauty

by Aaron Dickey

La fabricación de héroes y heroínas

by Toni Maestre

Finno-Ugric Mythology in Hungarian Fairy Tales

by Tara Lotstein

Published in the following volume:
Congressus XI Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum
Piliscsaba 2011
Pars VIII: Dissertationes sectionum: Literatura, archeologia et historica
Pages 115-119

Originally presented at the following conference:
Congressus XI Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum (CIFU11)
Piliscsaba, Hungary
August 9-14, 2010

In this paper, I would like to show how Nándor Pogány’s Hungarian fairytale Argyilus and the Fairy Ilona, contains the... more In this paper, I would like to show how Nándor Pogány’s Hungarian fairytale Argyilus and the Fairy Ilona, contains the largest amount of references to Finno-Ugric mythology than any of the other tales in his work Magyar Fairy Tales from Old Hungarian Legends. The strong Finno-Ugric mythological references in the fairytale can be substantiated by the following publications: for example, Géza Róheim’s Hungarian and Vogul Mythology, Mihály Hoppál and Juha Pentikäinen’s Uralic Mythology and Folklore, and Arnold Ipolyi’s Magyar Mythologia. Each portrays different elements of Finno-Ugric mythology which is clearly and continuously illustrated throughout the fairytale.

The beliefs of Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia, Hungarian mythology, and the Árpád influence make this tale unique. Each is important in its own right but when applied to the fairy tale, the story is changed from a children’s bedtime story to one which leaves this writer asking, “Why is there an abundance of Finno-Ugric mythology in this one particular story?” and two, “What makes an adult concept understandable and accessible for children?”

The Finno-Ugric mythology alluded to in Argyilus and the Fairy Ilona is a direct account of a day in the life of a Siberian shaman, and how central a role he plays to Siberian peoples. When specific elements of his role are retold, they are described in such a way so they will appeal to children, though unbeknownst to them at the time.

Argyilus and the Fairy Ilona is comprised of many distinctive elements: the Finno-Ugric mythology, Hungarian mythology, and the Árpád influence. When viewed independently of one another each adds invaluable color to the story. Though intertwined within the fairy tale, one may see how the different elements of each retain their individuality. In the above sources one may find elements of what these individualities are, see how they are preserved in the story, and see how each example, in its own way, plays a defining role over the course of the fairy tale.

Wicked Tales Two: Even Wickeder Tales

by Ed Wicke

Revising the Seduction Paradigm: The Case of Ewing's "The Brownies"

by Marah Gubar

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 30 (2002): pp.42-66

Charming and Rose: True Love

by Kelley Burke

One act play by KJ Burke, production information, author contact available at

http://kjb.squarespace.com/plays/

A princess raised by wolves struggles in a cross-cultural marriage with her Prince Charming--a black comedy by the... more A princess raised by wolves struggles in a cross-cultural marriage with her Prince Charming--a black comedy by the award-winning author of "The Selkie Wife" and "Jane's Thumb".

Three-hander, 70 min playing time.

Curiously Downbeat Hybrid or Radical Retelling?: Neil Jordan's and Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves'

by Charlotte Crofts

Chapter in Cartmell, Huner, Kaye and Whelehan (eds) Sisterhoods Across the Media Divide, Pluto Press, 1998.

A feminist re-reading of Neil Jordan's film adaptation of Angela Carter's The Company of Wolve, cited by fairy tale... more A feminist re-reading of Neil Jordan's film adaptation of Angela Carter's The Company of Wolve, cited by fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes in The Enchanted Screen, The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films, Taylor and Francis, 2010:
http://www.isbnlib.com/preview/0415990629/The-Enchanted-Screen-The-Unknown-History-of-Fairy-Tale-Films
"As Charlotte Crofts points out in her astute essay, the film's foregrounding of storytelling serves a double function, first by contextualizing the violent ..."

Le ombre di Barbablù: la fiaba di Perrault nell’opera di Anna Achmatova e Ivan Bunin

by Tatiana Korneeva

published in “eSamizdat”, 2008 (IV) 1: 135-151