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Advertising and fairy tales
Verbal folklore genres such as proverbs, riddles, folk songs, nursery rhymes, legends, and of course fairy tales have long been used as attention-getting devices in advertising. While proverbs, for ...
Alphonse Daudet
(1840–97)Popular French novelist. Influenced by naturalism, he is best known for his portrayal of life in his native Provence in Lettres de mon moulin (1869: Letters from my Windmill) ...
Angela Carter
1940–1992)British writer whose imaginative novels, which blend fantasy with realism, have won her a cult following.Born in Eastbourne, Angela Stalker was brought up in Yorkshire and London, failed to ...
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
(1837–1919),elder daughter of Thackeray. She wrote novels of an impressionistic kind which influenced her step‐niece V. Woolf: Old Kensington (1873) and Mrs Dymond (1885) are probably the best ...
Aphorisms and fairy tales
In addition to the numerous literary adaptations of fairy tales in the form of prose works, poems, and plays, there also exists a tradition of reducing well-known tales to short ...
Barbara G. Walker
(1930– ),American author of feminist books such as The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (1983), The Crone (1985), and The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects (1988). In ...
Beni Montresor
(1926–2001),celebrated Italian writer of radio plays (including adaptations of fairy tales), book illustrator, and stage designer. Montresor was knighted by the Italian government for distinguished ...
Bye Bye Red Riding Hood
(Piroska e farkas, film: Canada/Hungary 1988),an updated and remixed adaptation which combines elements of Perrault's version with elements of the Grimms, and adds a feminist inflection. From ...
Carlo Collodi
(1826–90)Pen‐name of Carlo Lorenzini, journalist, political activist, and author of plays, novels, memoirs, and children's books. He is best known for Le avventure di Pinocchio (1883: The Adventures ...
Carmen Martín Gaite
(1925–2000), Spanish writer highly regarded for her novels and short stories.She has also experimented with other literary genres, and her work in the field of children's literature is exemplified ...
cartoons and fairy tales
The wish by artists to illustrate the Kinder- und Hausmärchen of the Brothers Grimm has a long tradition, starting with their own brother Ludwig Emil Grimm and Ludwig Richter in ...
Charles Perrault
(1628–1703),French writer, is remembered today for a collection of fairy tales published under the name of his son Pierre: Histoires et contes du temps passé (1697), subtitled ‘Contes de ma Mère ...
Charlotte Chorpenning
(1872–1955), American playwright, theorist, and teacher,who was at the forefront of school and community drama programmes across the country. Chorpenning studied playwriting at Radcliffe College, and ...
Ellen Steiber
(1955– ), American writer of fantasy novellas with fairy-tale themes.Japanese folklore permeates Shadow of the Fox (1994) and ‘The Fox Wife’ (1995), illuminating the boundaries between husbands and ...
Étienne Delessert
(1941–), Swiss illustrator born in Lausanne and now living part-time in Connecticut. From 1959 to 1974 he was a graphic artist for advertising agencies and made many artistic posters. In ...
Frederick W. N. Bayley
(1808–53), English writer, poet, and journalist.Aside from writing travel books, he was the author of Comic Nursery Rhymes (1846), which contain hilarious parodies of ‘Bluebeard’, ‘*Little Red Riding ...
Georges Méliès
(1861–1938), influential French film producer and director of numerous films,many of which were adaptations of classical fairy tales. He was the accidental inventor of trick photography and thus what ...
Gianni Rodari
(1920–1980), Italian author. Rodari was the foremost writer for children in 20th-century Italy; his idealism, critical independence, experiments, and innovations changed the direction of Italian ...
greetings cards and fairy tales
It has become quite fashionable to play with fairy-tale motifs on greetings cards. Especially birthday wishes as well as Valentine messages are couched in fairy-tale language together with the ...
Gustave Doré
(b Strasbourg, 6 Jan. 1832; d Paris, 23 Jan. 1883).French illustrator, painter, and sculptor. He was the most celebrated book illustrator of the mid-19th century and was so prolific ...
