num_pages: 96
description: "It is no use trying to account for things in Fairyland; and one who travels there soon learns to forget the very idea of doing so, and takes everything as it comes; like a child, who, being in a chronic condition of wonder, is surprised at nothing." -- George MacDonald Phantastes Since the eighteenth century, writers have used fairy tales as a special genre well suited to the geography of inner experience. The nineteenth century relegated fairy tales to the nursery; during the twentieth century it became fashionable to interpret them psychologically. Writers of earlier times were less constrained. The fairies of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, for example, inhabit a sovereign domain. How will the twenty first century relate to the realm of fairy? These tales are essays in response. The book contains as a bonus an original translation of "The Fairies" by Ludwig Tieck. Bruce Donehower lives in northern California. He has a Ph.D. in English and a Masters in German literature and teaches in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis. In addition to writing and teaching, Bruce plays the classical guitar and practices Aikido. His writings include: Fiction Miko, Little Hunter of the North (1990, Farrar Straus &amp; Giroux) The Singing Tree: An Alchymical Fable (2004, Xlibris) Ice: A Novel of Initiation (2004, Xlibris) Literary Studies The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797 (2007, SUNY Press) Poetry Animal / Man (Xlibris, 2007) These books are available online at sites such as Amazon, Xlibris, or Barnes and Noble. The author can be contacted at Bruce@Donehower.com.
language: English
title: The Consolation of Philosophy & Other Tales: Including the Fairies by Ludwig Tieck, Translated by Bruce Donehower
titlecomplete: The Consolation of Philosophy & Other Tales: Including the Fairies by Ludwig Tieck, Translated by Bruce Donehower
publisher: Xlibris Corp