The Robber with a Witch's Head (eBook, PDF)

More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach
Redaktion: Zipes, Jack

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135877057
• Artikelnr.: 42977308

Autorenporträt

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Minnesota and has previously held professorships at New York University, the University of Munich, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Florida. In addition to his scholarly work, he is an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children's theaters in France, Germany, Canada, and the United States. In 1997, he founded a storytelling and creative drama program, Neighborhood Bridges, in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis that is still thriving in the elementary schools of the Twin Cities. Regarded as a major American translator, he has published The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1987), Beauties, Beasts, and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales (1989), The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse (1995), and he has also edited Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991), The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight (1994), The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2000), and Buried Treasures: The Political Power of Fairy Tales (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

LAURA GONZENBACH'S BURIED TREASURE A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION AND
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. THE CLEVER MAIDEN 2. THE ROBBER WITH A WITCH'S HEAD 3.
THE CLEVER FARMER'S DAUGHTER 4. THE COUNT AND HIS SISTER 5. CLEVER PEPPE 6.
MARIA, THE EVIL STEPMOTHER, AND THE SEVEN ROBBERS 7. BENSURDATU 8. THE
ROOSTER WHO WANTED TO BECOME POPE 9. THE BRAVE PRINCE 10. THE INNKEEPER'S
BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER 11. THE BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN WITH THE SEVEN VEILS 12. THE
MERCHANT'S CLEVER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER 13. MARUZZEDDA 14. ARMAIINU 15. THE
GOLDEN LION 16. THE TWELVE ROBBERS 17. THREE GOOD PIECES OF ADVICE 18.
TOBIÀ AND TOBIÒLA 19. JOSEPH THE JUST 20. THE TWO BROTHERS 21. THE SEVEN
BROTHERS WITH MAGIC TALENTS 22. THE PIOUS YOUNG MAN WHO WENT TO ROME 23.
SABEDDA AND HER BROTHER 24.THE CLEVER SHOEMAKER 25. THE TWINS 26. BEAUTIFUL
INNOCENTA 27. THE WICKED SCHOOLMASTER AND THE WANDERING PRINCESS 28. THE
FOUR PRINCESSES 29. ZAFARANA 30. PEASANT TRUTHFUL 31. ABOUT JOSEPH, WHO SET
OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE 32. THE WASTEFUL GIOVANNINU 33. THE BANISHED QUEEN
AND HER TWO ABANDONED CHILDREN 34. THE PIOUS CHILD 35. KATERINA'S FATE 36.
GODFATHER DEATH 37. BEAUTIFUL ANNA 38. THE DRAGON SLAYER 39. SAINT JAMES OF
GALICIA 40. THE HERMIT 41. THE PRINCE'S TWO CHILDREN FROM MONTELEONE 42.
THE CLEVER FARMER