Sentence examples for tale collections from inspiring English sources

Lin provides bibliographies of Chinese folk tale collections and writes thoughtful author's notes about her heritage and her choice to use these stories in new ways.

Medieval readers were familiar with tale collections, but expected a certain consistency within any given collection: saints' lives here, comic fables there.

A study of frame tale collections from India, Persia, the Middle East, and Western Europe from the 5th century C.E. through the 17th century.

She was just as horrified by the graphic illustrations included with some fairy tale collections, complaining that "little children, whose minds are susceptible of every impression; and who from the liveliness of their imaginations are apt to convert into realities whatever forcibly strikes their fancy" should not be allowed to see such scenes as Blue Beard hacking his wife's head off.

"Metzengerstein" was one of 11 tales Poe would have collected as Tales of the Folio Club, a tale collection Poe announced but never actually printed.

Over the course of the seminar, we will not only delve into the world-famous folk tale collection of the Grimm brothers, but also the more stylized Romantic 'Kunstmärchen¿ tradition (Goethe, Brentano, Hoffmann).

In this period she also published two more story collections, "Tale for the Mirror" (1962) and "Extreme Magic" (1964).

Hence the many fairy-tale collections of the period, including the Grimms'.

Translators of fairy-tale collections have always played fast and loose with the rules of their craft.

Many items in the Grimms' first edition came not from interviewees but from other fairy-tale collections.

By Maria Tatar November 21, 2012 Translators of fairy-tale collections have always played fast and loose with the rules of their craft.