Discussing Disney
Discussing Disney

Author: Amy M. Davis

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0861969618

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These scholarly essays examine Disney’s cultural impact from various perspectives—including film studies, history, musicology, gender and more. The academic field of Disney Studies has evolved greatly over the years, as the twelve essays collected in this volume demonstrate. With a diversity of perspectives and concerns, the contributors examine the cultural significance and impact of the Disney Company’s various outputs, such as animated shorts and films, theme park attractions, television shows, books, music, and merchandising. By looking at Disney from some of its many angles—including the history and the persona of its founder, a selection of its successful and not-so-successful films, its approaches to animation, its branding and fandom, and its reception and reinterpreted within popular culture—Discussing Disney offers a more holistic understanding of a company that has been, and continues to be, one of the most important forces in contemporary culture.

Vendetta
Vendetta

Author: Ardath Mayhar

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1434457486

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When their parents, the owners and performers of the Gannelli Family Circus, are murdered by a Yankee Captain in rural Arkansas during the Civil War, young Gian-Carlo and his cousin Magda barely escape with their lives into the surrounding woods. From then on, they have only one purpose in life: a VENDETTA against the Union officer. Their cat-and-mouse game finally reaches its climax in East Texas. Will this be their final performance?

The Door in the Hill
The Door in the Hill

Author: Ardath Mayhar

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2009-02-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1434402916

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When twins Bud and Lindy discover that the Little People--the Turnipins--are real, they must fight to preserve their wee friends' tree home from the ravages of modern developers.

Tales of High Fantasy
Tales of High Fantasy

Author: Robert E. Keller

Publisher: Robert E. Keller

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13:

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A collection of Robert E. Keller's fantasy short stories that were previously published in online and print magazines and in the Fantasy Stories Series, Volumes I, II, III, and IV. ---------- Story names: Barrel Rider; Two Men and a Sword; Gauntlet of Winter, Sword of Spring; The Web of Bloated Indulgence; Rage of the God Heads; The Battering Ram at Doom's Gates; Brock Strangebeard and the Towers of Matterkill

Interpreting Literature With Children
Interpreting Literature With Children

Author: Shelby A. Wolf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-04

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1135625611

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A remarkable book that addresses the ways in children respond to literature across a variety of everyday classroom situations. The result is a balanced resource for teachers who want to deepen their understanding of literature and literary engagement.

Timber Pirates
Timber Pirates

Author: Ardath Mayhar

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1434402592

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The Hartleys live on Texas land an ancestor received in a grant from the king of Spain, and they value their trees only slightly less than the members of their family. Beau Hartley continually has run-ins with Gaitor Morfew, youngest of a clan of troublemakers, who accuses Beau's brother Andy of being the timber pirate troubling the area. Beau joins Andy in searching for an illegal logging crew, but when Andy disappears in the same swamp that claimed the life of their Dad, Beau is left with a series of unanswered questions. Who's pirating the timber on their land, and how can he clear Andy's name of the crime? It takes a devastating forest fire to resolve his dilemma.

The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

Author: Maria Tatar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-12-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1316194515

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Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature. As the simple expression of complex thought, fairy tales have increasingly become the focus of intense scholarly inquiry. In this Companion, international scholars from a range of academic disciplines explore the historical origins, cultural dissemination and psychological power of fairy stories, and offer model interpretations of tales from a variety of traditions and sources, including Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and the One Thousand and One Nights. Rather than disenchanting the stories, the essays in this volume broaden our understanding of them and deepen our appreciation of the cultural work they do. A chronology and guide to further reading contribute to the usefulness of the volume for students and scholars.

Coyote's Song
Coyote's Song

Author: Richard D. Erlich

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 1434457753

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A major study of the major and minor fiction, poetry, and children's books of SF and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin. As Le Guin herself writes, "It is written in English, not academese, and will be of interest to a wide spectrum of students, scholars, and interested readers."

Rebel Fay
Rebel Fay

Author: Barb Hendee

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-01-02

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1101212705

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Magiere the Dhampir was created by a shadowy, long-forgotten enemy of many names-an enemy who the elf Leesil was trained from childhood to kill. They were brought together by the Fay to forge an alliance that might have the power to stand against the forces of dark magics. But as Magiere and Leesil uncover the truth, they discover just how close the enemy has always been...

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Author: Peter Hunt

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 934

ISBN-13: 0415088569

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The Encyclopedia offers comprehensive and international coverage of children's literature from a number of perspectives - theory and critical approaches, types and genres, context, applications and individual country essays.