Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Essays on Fairy Tales - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911122045 ISBN 13: 9781911122043

Publisher: The Greystones Press, 1818

Synopsis

Seven Miles of Steel Thistles is a collection of essays on fairy tales, folk tales and ballads by novelist and blogger writer Katherine Langrish. It is the first non-fiction title by Langrish, whose popular blog of the same name, where she discusses folklore and fantasy from an academic perspective, is regularly visited by readers from the United States to Japan and to date has around a quarter of a million page views. She writes with a light and graceful touch, following in the tradition of scholars like Katherine Briggs and Jacqueline Simpson.The essays in this edition reflect upon the role of women in fairy tales, discuss specific tales such as Briar Rose and The Juniper Tree, and look at wider themes including the significance of white ladies, water spirits and fairy brides amongst others.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Langrish grew up in the Yorkshire Dales reading C.S. Lewis and anything else she could get her hands on. She wrote an eighth Narnia title when she was ten. Later she read English Literature at university, married and lived in both France and America.Katherine sprang on to the international publishing scene in 2004 with Troll Fell, the first in a fantasy trilogy for children and young adults. Her writing is influenced by her knowledge and love of folklore, and has been compared with Alan Garner's; she is a contributor to First Light, a celebration of Garner for his 80th birthday, compiled by Erica Wagner. Seven Miles of Steel Thistles is her first non-fiction title.Katherine now lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and an energetic Dalmatian dog.

Review:

"The author's range of reference is boundless...Cashford can analyse the poetry and the myths exhaustively without diminishing them for a moment". - Tom Payne, The Daily Telegraph

A lucidly written, beautifully illustrated book that casts fresh light both scholarly and imaginative on its theme". - Lindsay Clarke, Resurgence

"It is rare today to see a genuinely epic work of mythography like this one". - Barry Patterson, Caduceus

"The book offers an irresistible invitation to our senses and imagination as well as to our mind". - Ann Shearer, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies

"As illuminated by Cashford, the moon becomes, once again, a magic mirror, giving us back ourselves". - Nita Sembrowich, Journal of the Temenos Academy

"It is one of those incomparable studies that guide, sustain, heal and fulfil the special needs of these times". - Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Greystones Press
• Publication date: 1818
• ISBN 10: 1911122045
• ISBN 13: 9781911122043
• Binding: Paperback