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Shape Shifting Tales
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Author : Valentina Castagna
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Shape Shifting Tales written by Valentina Castagna and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Femininity in literature categories.
This book provides an analysis of the representation of women's bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts. The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm Brothers' and Charles Perrault's, the lives of female saints and Roberts's counter-narratives, focussing on the analysis of images of sublimed fleshliness and of acts of monstrous violence on the body. The book takes into account relevant Women's Studies criticism regarding the mother-daughter relationship, as Roberts's stories question the role of mother figures in traditional fairy tales and hagiography and at the same time rework the concept of motherhood itself.
Shape Shifters Their Stories The Golem Lilith Werewolf The Dybbuk Silkie More
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Author : Michael Berman
language : en
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
Release Date : 2015-05-01
Shape Shifters Their Stories The Golem Lilith Werewolf The Dybbuk Silkie More written by Michael Berman and has been published by Mandrake of Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"Long ago the trees thought they were really people Long ago the mountains thought they were really people Long ago the animals thought they were really people Someday, they will say Long ago the humans thought they were really people" Constance O'Day-Flannery, Shifting Love Introduction Shape-shifting is a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. In its broadest sense, shape-shifting occurs when a being (usually human) either (1) has the ability to change its shape into that of another person, creature, or other entity or (2) finds its shape involuntarily changed by someone else. If the shape change is voluntary, its cause may be an act of will, a magic word or magic words, a potion, or a magic object. If the change is involuntary, its cause may be a curse or spell, a wizard's or magician's or fairy's help, a deity's will, a temporal change such as a full Moon or nightfall, love, or death. The transformation may or may not be purposeful. The desire to be different in some way so as to match some ideal promoted through advertising has become an obsession, especially for vulnerable younger members of society. Perhaps the pressure to conform to some unrealistic ideal is something that has always been with us, but surely not to the extent that now is the case. And it is this desire that helps to account for the current interest in shape-shifting as it would seem to provide a means of achieving the goal to bring about change. However, as many of the tales in this collection show, it is only by coming to terms with who we really are that peace of mind can truly be ours once again. Another, and perhaps even more significant reason for the fascination with shape-shifting is that stories and shamanic journeys that involve such transformations let us cross the threshold between this reality and other worlds, at least in imagination. Through such tales and journeys we learn to appreciate that we can in fact wear many shapes and inhabit many skins, and we are reminded that we are all living beings beneath the fur, the feathers, and the scales. Having no scripture, liturgy or singular deity, if one's ... desire is to find universal truth it is easy to perceive the Pagan outlook as too diverse and individualistic to have any weight or worth. (Restall Orr, 2012, p.96). On the other hand, if you take a Bible and put it out in the wind and rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone, whereas for the Pagan his or her Bible IS the wind and rain. And although there may not necessarily be key texts or set teachings to guide the Pagan, there are stories: legends shared with other people, other lands, tales from other, older, cultures that speak to us, and it is those stories that form the focus of this book.
Shape Shifter
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Author : Pauline Melville
language : en
Publisher: Saqi
Release Date : 2013-07-01
Shape Shifter written by Pauline Melville and has been published by Saqi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with Fiction categories.
From comrade Shakespeare McNab who enlists the help of La Diablesse to retrieve his faltering career at a Caribbean broadcasting station, to the fourteen year old English girl who develops a terror of infinity; from the electrifying description of a woman attacked as she lies sleeping, to the lyrical exploration of the myths of El Dorado, Pauline Melville lures the reader into the intriguing different worlds. The sheer malevolence of everyday life is offset with hilarity, making the stories in Shape-shifter both unsettling and funny. Shape-shifter is a collection of stories about the transformations that result from journeys and migrations, a restless text that moves to and fro between the Caribbean and Britain creating a vividly and magically evoked 'Black Atlantic' narrative 'Notably sharp, funny and orginal, part Caribbean magic, part London grime, written in a slippery, chameleon language that is a frequent delight.' Salman Rushdie 'An exceptionally talented writer of prose fiction ... Melville's descriptive powers are especially acute.' Times Literary Supplement 'With immense verve and skill [Melville] shows how the English language has been taken over and transformed by those people whose ancestors were forced to speak it. A very impressive and enjoyable first book.' New Statesman
Shape Shifters
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978-01-01
Shape Shifters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with Science fiction categories.
Serpents And Werewolves
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Author : Lari Don
language : en
Publisher: World of Stories
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Serpents And Werewolves written by Lari Don and has been published by World of Stories this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
From a girl whose stepmother turned her into a dragon to a god who became a fish caught in his own net, this collection gathers the most high-interest tales and lore from around the world.
Shape Shifters
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Author : Meg Gaertner
language : en
Publisher: Monster Histories
Release Date : 2021-05-27
Shape Shifters written by Meg Gaertner and has been published by Monster Histories this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Shapeshifting categories.
Stories of shape-shifters have been around for thousands of years. Learn about the stories of these monsters from many different cultures.
Foxfire Wolfskin And Other Stories Of Shapeshifting Women
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Author : Sharon Blackie
language : en
Publisher: September Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-26
Foxfire Wolfskin And Other Stories Of Shapeshifting Women written by Sharon Blackie and has been published by September Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-26 with Social Science categories.
Beautiful, rich short stories, drawing on myth and folklore to bring to life women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances. 'A book for all the wild women ... Foxfire, Wolfskin is simply the most perfect thing. I love each and every placement of each word. Love the wildness, the shapeshifting, the fearsomeness of it.' Jackie Morris, co-author of The Lost Words ' She lived fully, my fox, and I envied her with all my heart. I wanted to dance with her, sister or lover, across the snow-clad vastness of this land. Together, we'd create the Northern Lights. For that is what foxes do racing over the fells, whipping up the snow with their tails, the friction of it sending up sparks into the midnight sky. This is what makes the aurora's glow. Revontulet , we call it: foxfire.' Charged with drama and beauty, this memorable collection by a master storyteller weaves a magical world of possibility and power from female myths of physical renewal, creation and change. It is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore. Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia, these stories are about coming to terms with our animal natures, exploring the ways in which we might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and uncovering the wildness and wilderness within. Beautifully illustrated by Helen Nicholson, Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women is Blackie's first collection of short stories. 'Sharon Blackie has wrought a new-old magic for our times: glorious, beautiful, passionate myths. They show who we could have been, and they give us a glimpse of a world-that-could-be.' Manda Scott, author of A Treachery of Spies and Boudica 'A deeply evocative and haunting collection ... Part rally cry, part warning, part manifesto and all parts enchanting, Sharon Blackie's Foxfire, Wolfskin is a deeply evocative and haunting collection. I want to press this powerful book into the hands of everyone I know and say listen. ' Holly Ringland, author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Shape Shifters
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Author : Jane Yolen
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1979-07-17
Shape Shifters written by Jane Yolen and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-07-17 with Science fiction. categories.
Saki, Kafka, Russell Baker, and Richard Curtis are among the authors of twelve fantasy and science-fiction tales about humans who can change themselves into animals
Stories Of Shape Shifting
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Author : Robert E Howard
language : en
Publisher: Hjem House Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02
Stories Of Shape Shifting written by Robert E Howard and has been published by Hjem House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02 with categories.
Legendary storyteller Robert E. Howard's stories of shape-shifting beings collected into one epic omnibus edition with notes and introduction.
Dark Tales From Dreamdale
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Author : Jeremy Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-05
Dark Tales From Dreamdale written by Jeremy Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-05 with categories.
Dark Tales from Dreamdale Shape-shifter's Scepter On a full moon, Halloween night of his twelfth birthday, Arden Wonder's best middle-grade friend, Happy Buckets, becomes a shape-shifter! He dramatically transforms into a silly, fun loving, carefree and brave werewolf, who isn't the least at all threatening. Happy the Shape-shifter isn't all that tamed either. Happy still has monster instincts that take over his personality, and he has no control over. But everyone in town doesn't know that. Happy is looking for protection from his friends. There is a hunter Down Under in Australia named Benjamin Boogieman, who wants to destroy the boy. Arden doesn't realize that Happy is the last shape-shifter. An order to save his best friend from becoming extinct, Arden discovers an enchanted weapon at the Dreamporium where all the cool kids hang out at school, that can protect his friend. It's a supernatural wand that can help safeguard Happy from being trapped in his monstrosity. But if Happy isn't careful about how to use the magic wand, there could be consequences. What's after that? Let's discover......