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Fairy Tale Review. The Violet Issue.

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-APR-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Fairy Tale Review. The Violet Issue.(Book review)

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Fairy Tale Review. The Violet Issue. Edited by Kate Bernheimer. Tuscaloosa: The

University of Alabama Press, 2007. 160 pp.

This third issue of Fairy Tale Review is the first to be published in conjunction with The University of Alabama Press. The Blue and the Green issues both preceded the current Violet Issue, and the color-coding of the issues inevitably recalls Andrew Lang's fairy books, but editor Kate Bernheimer takes a more liberal approach to the fairy-tale genre than Lang did, eschewing straight retellings and filling the issue with a literary mix in both prose and poetry. Fairy Tale Review's website (www.fairytalereview.com/index.html) features a quotation from Max Luthi, asserting that the fairy tale "gives not only pleasure, it gives form and inspiration." This inspiration is clearer in some cases than in others.

These pieces are not strictly tied to particular tales; many adopt imagery associated with fairy tales, or an air of magic realism. The issue's most potent contribution, the first chapter of Espido Freire's novel Irlanda (translated by Toshiya Kamei), evokes no specific tale but rather the dreamlike landscape of...

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