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Languange : en
Publisher by : Focus Readers
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Description : In many fairy tales, characters must rely on quick thinking to overcome challenges. But science and engineering could also help these characters. In this fun series, readers complete hands-on activities to help beloved fairy-tale characters.
Author by : Laura Magner
Languange : en
Publisher by : Pieces of Learning
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 92
Total Download : 797
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Description : This book "draws on fairy tales as the context for practicing the scientific method and learning scientific knowledge."--Cover back.
Author by : Melanie Keene
Languange : en
Publisher by : Oxford University Press, USA
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 86
Total Download : 891
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Description : Presents a new perspective on Victorian scientific discoveries and inventions; includes a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales and stories; looks at why fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences; examines a range of scientific subjects, from palaeontology to entomology to astronomy.--Provided by publisher.
Author by : Suzanne Magnanini
Languange : en
Publisher by : University of Toronto Press
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Total Read : 36
Total Download : 474
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Description : "Between 1550 and 1650, marvellous stories of women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and valiant men slaying dragons appeared in Europe. Circulated in scientific texts and in the first two collections of fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparolas Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basiles Lo cunto de li cunti, the stories invigorated readers and established a new literary genre. Despite the fact that the printed European fairy tale was born in Italy, however, contemporary readers tend to think of France or Germany as the genres place of origin.Fairy-Tale Science looks at the birth of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous, and explains how scientific discourse and literary theories of the marvellous limited the genre's success on its native soil. Suzanne Magnanini argues that men of science positioned the fairy tale in opposition to science and fixed it as a negative pole in a binary system. This system came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by adopting theories of the monstrous as metaphors for their own literary production, Straparola and Basile aligned the literary fairy tale, the feminine, and the monstrous, and essentially marginalized the new genre.Fairy-Tale Science expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination and investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and marvellous literature."
Author by : Edwin Sidney Hartland
Languange : en
Publisher by : The Floating Press
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Total Read : 65
Total Download : 236
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Description : Selkie, wee people, elves, fauns, mogwai -- no matter what you call them, virtually every cultural tradition has created a type of being that is analogous to the Western concept of the fairy. In this fascinating analysis, scholar Edwin Sidney Hartland delves into the inner workings of the ubiquitous fairy myth and traces its impact across many cultures.
Author by : Julienne Ford
Languange : en
Publisher by : Routledge Kegan & Paul
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 52
Total Download : 628
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Author by : Virginia Zimmerman
Languange : en
Publisher by : SUNY Press
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 76
Total Download : 276
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Description : How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.
Author by : Stijn Praet
Languange : en
Publisher by : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 62
Total Download : 363
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Description : Ever since its early modern inception as a literary genre unto its own, the fairy tale has frequently provided authors with a textual space in which to reflect on the nature, status and function of their own writing and that of literature in general. At the same time, it has served as an ideal laboratory for exploring and experimenting with the boundaries of literary convention and propriety. While scholarship pertaining to these phenomena has focused primarily on the fairy-tale adaptations and deconstructions of postmodern(ist) writers, this essay collection adopts a more diachronic approach. It offers fairy-tale scholars and students a series of theoretical and literary-historical expositions, as well as case studies on English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, and Romanian texts from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, by authors as diverse as Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Rikki Ducornet, Hans Christian Andersen and Robert Coover.
Author by : Gardner Dozois
Languange : en
Publisher by : St. Martin's Griffin
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 65
Total Download : 498
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Description : The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including: William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel * Cory Doctorow * Jim Grimsley * Gwyneth Jones * Chris Lawson * Ian McDonald * Robert Reed * William Browning Spencer * Allen Steele * Michael Swanwick * Howard Waldrop * Cherry Wilder * Liz Williams A useful list of honorable mentions and Dozois's insightful summation of the year in sf round out this anthology, making it indispensable for anyone interested in SF today.
Author by : Joanna Korba
Languange : en
Publisher by : Benchmark Education Company
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 66
Total Download : 733
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Description : Perform this script about how the big, bad wolf uses science to win the fairy tale games.
