This edition of 'The Elements of Style'details eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition,'a few matters of form', and a list of commonly misused words and expressions.
One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of folklorist and critics to provide the student with a stunning, lucid overview of the genre and a solid understanding of its structure.
Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a ""fairy-tale web"" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century.
Kuykendall, Leslee Farish, and Brian W. Sturn. “We Said Feminist Fairy Tales, Not Fractured Fairy Tales!” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, vol. 5, no. 3, Winter 2007, pp. 38–41. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=tfh&AN=28046668&site=eds-live.
Wilt, Judith. “Cannibal and Transcendence Narratives in Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, and Interview with the Vampire.” Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, July 2016, pp. 74–97. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edb&AN=120820257&site=eds-live.
Riley, Brian Patrick. "'It's man devouring man, my dear': adapting Sweeney Todd for the screen." Literature-Film Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 205+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A234720448/LitRC?u=avl_jeff&sid=ebsco&xid=eed85feb. Accessed 6 Jan. 2022.
Crone, Rosalind. “From Sawney Beane to Sweeney Todd: Murder Machines in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Metropolis.” Cultural & Social History, vol. 7, no. 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 59–85. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2752/147800410X477340.
Jensen, Marc. “‘Feed Me!’: Power Struggles and the Portrayal of Race in Little Shop of Horrors.” Cinema Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, Sept. 2008, p. 51. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsglr&AN=edsglr.A189747507&site=eds-live.
Chananiah, Pesach. “The Churning of Skid Row: A Genealogy of Development, Gentrification, and Displacement.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 79, no. 2, Mar. 2020, p. 475. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/ajes.12329.
Als, Hilton. “Partners.” The New Yorker, vol. 93, no. 4, Mar. 2017, p. 82. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsglr&AN=edsglr.A486492141&site=eds-live.
This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human.
Carroll, Shiloh. “The Heart of the Labyrinth: Reading Jim Henson’s Labyrinth as a Modern Dream Vision.” Mythlore, vol. 28, no. 1–2, Sept. 2009, p. 103. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsggo&AN=edsgcl.211707036&site=eds-live.
Miller, T. S. “The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths: Escaping Escapism in Henson’s Labyrinth and Del Toro’s Laberinto.” Extrapolation, vol. 52, no. 1, Mar. 2011, p. 26. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsggo&AN=edsgcl.278950694&site=eds-live.
Maxfield, Amanda L. “Chapter 9: The Quest for External Validation in Female Coming-of-Age Films.” Film Studies: Women in Contemporary World Cinema, Jan. 2002, pp. 141–178. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=ndh&AN=19365116&site=eds-live.
Mertz, Maia Pank, and David A. England. School Library Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, Oct. 1983, p. 119. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=f5h&AN=5622994&site=eds-live.
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"'It had to be dark' -- how we made Matilda the Musical; 'We didn't give Matilda any songs because she was shy. Then we realised: it's a fricking musical -- the protagonist needs to sing!'." Guardian [London, England], 8 Nov. 2021. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A681656132/ITOF?u=avl_jeff&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=9b2190bf. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.