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   Kissing the Witch (or Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins) is a collection of interconnected fictional short stories written by Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue. Each of the thirteen stories in the collection is an adaptation of a well-known European fairy tale, with several tales featuring feminist and queer themes.

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   May 15, 1997 · In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.

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   • Author: Emma Donoghue

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   Feb 27, 1999 · a startling new perspective on age-old tales. In Kissing the Witch, women young and old wander a strange and delightful landscape in search of shelter, power, or their heart's desire. They work, struggle, marry for love or money, lose children or steal them, plot escape or revenge.

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   • ISBN-13: 9780.1B

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   Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous.

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5. www.emmadonoghue.com › kissing-the-witchKissing the Witch - Emma Donoghue

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   Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (UK title, Kissing the Witch) (New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 1997), my third book of fiction and first story collection, is a sequence of thirteen re-imagined fairytales, inspired by traditional European sources (Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Hans Anderson).

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   Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and...

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   Is kissing the Witch based on a true story?

   • Kissing the Witch (or Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins) is a collection of interconnected fictional short stories written by Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue. Each of the thirteen stories in the collection is an adaptation of a well-known European fairy tale, with several tales featuring feminist and queer themes.

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   When is San Fran's magic kissing the Witch?

   • "San Fran's Magic Is Kissing the Witch June 2–25". Playbill. Retrieved November 2, 2023. ^ a b Donoghue, Emma (May 22, 2015). Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays (1st ed.).

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   What is the magic power of telling and re-telling in kissing the Witch?

   • The author of "The Magic Power of Telling and Re-telling in Kissing the Witch", Qiu Xiaoqing, further extends this idea by addressing the ending of "The Tale of the Kiss"—unlike the others, the final tale makes it clear in its direct address to the reader that the role of the narrator is passing beyond the story and stepping into the real world.

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   What is the role of interstitial moments in kissing the Witch?

   • Jennifer Orme is one such scholar, who—in her article "Mouth to Mouth: Queer Desires in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch "—wrote, "These interstitial moments work as an internal structural-framing device that provides a formula for the passing on of the storytelling duty, continuity between the tales, and cohesion for the book as a whole."

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   What happens when the witch asks for a kiss?

   • The witch asks for a kiss, though she expects the daughter to refuse. She is surprised when the daughter kisses her, and she finds herself thinking about the kiss and the daughter in the days that follow, until she realizes she has fallen in love with the daughter. The narrator does not share what happens next, choosing to keep it a secret.

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   Is the tale of the kiss a fairy tale?

   • Unlike the other tales in the collection, "The Tale of the Kiss" does not draw from a particular fairy tale. Rather, the final chapter is an amalgamation of several tales and focuses on the theme of oracles and diviners.

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8. www.publishersweekly.com › 9780060275754Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins - Publishers Weekly

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   Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins. Emma Donoghue. Harper Teen, $15.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-06-027575-4. In this stylized, lyrical collection of revisionist fairy tales,...