Emily Urquhart

Ordinary Wonder Tales (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction


A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagineand reveals the magic in the everyday.

I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories, writes Emily Urquhart. I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories. In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter stormor the onset of a loved one's dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771965064
• Artikelnr.: 63755796

Autorenporträt

Emily Urquhart is a journalist with a doctorate in folklore. Her award-winning work has appeared in Longreads, Guernica, and The Walrus and elsewhere, and her first book was shortlisted for the Kobo First Book Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction. Her most recent book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, my Father and Me, was listed as a top book of 2020 by CBC, NOW Magazine and Quill & Quire. She is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly and lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

The Matter
Lessons for Female Success
Chimera
Ordinary Wonder Tales
Child Unwittingly Promised
Giving up the Ghost
Nuclear Folklore
The Plague Legends
Adrift
Years Thought Days
Notes
Acknowledgements