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Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales.

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales. Edited by Marina Balina, Helena Goscilo, and Mark Lipovetsky. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. xiv + 418 pp.

Now that the kind of cachet that Russia had during the Cold War has moved to new languages and regions, many Russian programs on college and university campuses have discovered that Russian fairy tales make a popular undergraduate or general education topic. A number of courses now taught in the United States descended from one originally created by Helena Goscilo, professor of Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh. Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales aims partly to serve such classes and partly to do much more. It includes translations by a number of individuals, some done expressly for this book, framed with theoretical essays by three editors who are all prominent scholars of Russian literature and culture....

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