Guidelines for the Submission of Reviews

(Revised 8/05)

Reviews
Books and other media for review and all inquiries regarding reviews should be addressed to the Review Editor:

Cristina Bacchilega
Department of English
University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
fax: 808-956-3083
email: cbacchi@hawaii.edu

Process

We are interested in reviewing a broad range of folktale and fairy-tale materials within an international scope.

In most cases, the review editor contacts potential reviewers with a request; however, e-mail inquiries from scholars with a fairy-tale interest are welcome as are suggestions for items that should be reviewed in Marvels & Tales.

Reviews are usually due in June and December, and the arrangement with the review editor is set up several months in advance of the deadline.

The reviewer will receive a copy of the item to review and, when it is published, a copy of the issue in which the review appears. 

Review

Each review of ca. 1,000 words should be double spaced throughout. As of August 2005, editorial policy precludes the review editor from accepting reviews that are more than 1,500 words.

Reviews will be in English, regardless of the language of the item reviewed. Occasionally, the review editor will accept reviews in German and French.

Please submit the review to the review editor as an electronic attachment, preferably using Word.

Reviewers should include a Contributor’s Note—a brief biographical statement of no more than 50 words for the Contributors page—and a mailing address.

Style

Citation
Head your review with the bibliographical citation, following this format:

Title. By [Edited by; Translated by, etc.] Name. Series name number [if applicable]. Place: Publisher, date. Page numbers, bibliography, index, illustrations [if applicable].

For media other than books, consult the MLA Handbook (6th edition).

Examples

BOOK:

Briar Rose. By Robert Coover. New York: Grove Press, 1996. 86 pp.

Contes tendres, contes cruels du Sahel nigérien. Edited and Translated by Geneviève Calame-Griaule. Collection “Le langage des contes.” Paris: Gallimard, 2002. 293 pp.

 

The Types of International Folktales, a Classification and Bibliography. Based on the system of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. By Hans-Jörg Uther. FF Communications no. 284. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2004. Three volumes: 619 pp., 536 pp., 285 pp.

 

Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives. By Maria Tatar. Princeton and Oxford:  Princeton University Press, 2004.  xiv + 247 pp., bibliography, index, illustrations.

VIDEOCASSETTE and DVD:

Willa: An American Snow White. Directed by Tom Davenport. Performed by Becky Stark, Caitlin O'Connell, and Mark Jaster. Videocassette. Tom and Mimi Davenport, Davenport Films. 1997.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed.  Germany. 1926. B&W/Tinted. 65 minutes. Directed by Lotte Reiniger.

Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film. Documentary 1999. B&W/Color. 60 minutes. Written and directed by Katja Raganelli.  Diorama Film GmbH.

Animated advertisement for Nivea Cream. by Lotte Reiniger, 1921.

Video and Press Kit. British Film Institute and Milestone Film & Video, 2001.

EXHIBITION:

Victorian Fairy Painting. Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13 November 1997-8 February 1998. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 28 February-24 May 1998. The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 10 June-13 September 1998.

Fourth Göttingen Fairy-Tale Week. Exhibition. Göttingen, Germany, 25 July-2 August 1998.

Corpus. By Ann Hamilton. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). North Adams, MA. 2003-2004.

PERFORMANCE:

Happily Eva Afta. By Lisa Matsumoto. Directed by Tamara Hunt. Diamond Head Theatre, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 1998.

Cinderella. Directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne. Performed by Adventures in Motion Pictures. Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center of Los Angeles County. 28 March-23 May 1999.

WEBSITE:

Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana. Co-produced by John Shortess and Maida Owens. [Date of site's creation, copyright, update, or other if available.] Louisiana Public Broadcasting. 8 Sept. 1998 <http://www.lpb.org/programs/swappingstories>.

SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages. Maintained by Heidi Anne Heider. <http://www.surlalunefairytales.com>.

 

Reviewer's Name and Institution
The reviewer's name and institution should be set flush right, on separate lines single-spaced at the end of the review, and it should be italicized.


Please also note the following formatting requirements:

  • Cite page numbers in parentheses only when quoting and with no “p.” or “pp.”
  • Avoid using footnotes or endnotes.
  • Italicize; do not use underlining or boldface.
  • Leave only one space after a period ending a sentence.
  • For ellipses within a sentence, use three spaced periods: “Some knowledge of the complex background of this culture is . . . desirable.”
  • For ellipses following the end of a sentence, use three spaced periods after the period ending the sentence: “The stories in the original manuscripts are interrupted every five pages or so. . . .” If a parenthetical reference follows, use only three spaced periods: “The stories in the original manuscripts are interrupted every five pages or so . . .” (Irwin 3).
  • Spell “fairy tale” separately as a noun, “fairy-tale” hyphenated as an adjective, “folktale” solid, and “Grimms’” as plural possessive (using the singular only when referring to one brother).
  • When indicating tale number, use the abbreviations ATU (for Aarne-Thompson-Uther), AT (for Aarne-Thompson), and/or KHM (for Kinder- und Hausmärchen).

 

Punctuation, spelling, etc., will be edited to conform to the journal's style.

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