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Karen Duve’s Short Story “Grrrimm”: Werewomen, Werewolves, and Witches in a Feminist Adaptation of the Grimms’ “Little Red Cap”

Monatshefte
Karen Duve’s short story “Grrrimm” is an adaptation of the fairy tale “Little Red Cap” by the Brothers Grimm, which critiques and rewrites the story’s plot and messages about gender, sexual agency, subjectivity, and anti-female violence.
Britta Kallin
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Slaying the Vampires, Werewolves and Demons of Ineffective Leadership

This fun and accessible study of leadership takes readers on an enchanting journey into the world of vampires, werewolves and demons found in the hit television show ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ In this addition to the Exploring Effective Leadership ...
Aditya Simha
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Wooing Werewolves: Girls’ Genius, Feminine, and Initiation in Angela Carter’s and Märta Tikkanen’s Versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore
Girls’ initiation contributes to cultural representations in Western folk fairy tales. This study examines girls’ initiation in three contemporary versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”, Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” and “Wolf-Alice” (1979), and ...
Carola Maria Wide
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From Activists to Werewolves: 2023 Rainbow Book List Trends

Multicultural Perspectives
This manuscript explores the trends of the American Library Association’s (ALA's) Rainbow Book List Top Ten Titles for Young Readers for 2023. It provides an overview of the titles and curricular connections. The authors discuss how the 2023 Rainbow Book
Tadayuki Suzuki, S. Pennell, Lesley Colabucci   +2 more
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Full Moon Masculinities: Masculine Werewolves, Emotional Repression, and Violence in Young Adult Paranormal Romance Fiction

Gothic Studies, 2019
Gothic monsters have recently experienced a period of focused scholarly analysis, although few studies have engaged with the werewolf in terms of its overt alignment with masculinity.
T. Evans
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American Werewolves in London

Arbitration International, 2002
THERE ARE many in the city of London – lawyers, arbitrators, arbitral bodies and trade organizations – who seek to promote London as an international arbitration centre. These efforts have been very successful. English arbitral law has now been modernized in the shape of the 1996 Arbitration Act, which aimed amongst other things to make arbitration law
J. Dasteel, R. Jacobs
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“Oh Dear, Yes!”: Mashing up Little Women, Vampires, and Werewolves

Women's Studies, 2019
For a brief period that began in 2009 with Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, one could hardly escape the garish bookstore displays of horror mashups, featuring works like Jane Slayre and Sense and Sensibility and Sea ...
Marlowe Daly-Galeano
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Native Southern Transformations, or, Light in August and Werewolves

Faulkner and the Native South, 2019
In the world of Light in August, a cotton warehouse tank can look like the torso of a beheaded mastodon and an elderly couple "might have been two muskoxen strayed from the north pole, or two homeless and belated beasts from beyond the glacial period ...
E. Anderson
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The Werewolves of Livonia:

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, 2012
ABSTRACT Throughout the early modern period, the territory of Livonia, roughly corresponding to present-day Latvia and Estonia, was known as an abode of particularly vicious werewolves. Diabolic shape-shifting was a common feature in witch trials all over Europe, but no other country gained a similar notoriety as an alleged lycanthropy ...
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Werewolves in Norse-Icelandic Literature: Between the Monster and the Man by Minjie Su (review)

Parergon, 2023
Chris White
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