Fairy Tales of the Russians and Other Slavs
2009
First Published
3.96
Average Rating
440
Number of Pages
What Critics Say: "I have only praise for their choice of stories, and for their organization." D. L. Ashliman, author of Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook, and a leading authority on the subject. "Fairy Tales of the Russians and Other Slavs reminds us that the stories that inform our ideologies are old, insightful, and significant. It is the kind of book that anyone interested in Eastern European cultural traditions simply must have." Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, anthropologist, historian, editor of Star Trek as Myth, and other scholarly collections. "The resources in the back show careful and sophisticated scholarship. As I look through the text, I keep thinking, 'This is a book that was destined to be for these writers, a work of love and enjoyment.' I look forward to more such collaborations from these authors." Professor Ed Reber, English and Folklore, Dixie State College Publisher's Description: This book has the best Russian fairy tales plus stories from the other Slavic countries, from Ukraine and Poland, Slovakia and Serbia, Belorussia and the old Yugoslavia, from all those places where the Slavs lived and worked and sang epic songs and told impossible tales that were somehow true. It also has stories from the Kiev Cycle, legends about great warriors and warrior princesses, about dragons and dragonslayers, about wars won against impossible odds, and loves found in the most dangerous places. This is a collection for people who like fairy tales and even for those who don't. The book contains the broadest selection of Slavic fairy tales and legends currently in print with sixty-eight stories, ten newly translated. Even those who have read all of the Afanasiev collection of Russian Fairy Tales will find something new-four stories never before published in English. Though the book is not designed for scholars, it does include a detailed glossary, an introduction, and a comprehensive bibliography for those who want to find out more.
Avg Rating
3.96
Number of Ratings
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Author
Ace G. Pilkington
Author · 2 books
Ace G. Pilkington has published over one hundred poems, articles, reviews, and short stories in five countries. He is an active member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the author of Screening Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V. His essays are included in Cambridge University Press' Shakespeare and the Moving Image, and in McFarland’s Star Trek as Myth, and The Films of James Cameron. He is co-editor with Matthew Wilhelm Kapell of The Fantastic Made Visible: Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen. He is a co-translator and co-editor with his wife Olga of Fairy Tales of the Russians and other Slavs. Ace’s book Science Fiction, Futurism, and the Terms and Ideas Behind Them is forthcoming from McFarland in 2015. He is Professor of English and History at Dixie State University and Literary Seminar director at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, which produced his play Our Lady Guenevere in their New Plays series. He has a D.Phil. in Shakespeare, history, and film from Oxford University.
