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Wild Swans (other)
Wild Swans is a 1991 autobiographical novel by Jung Chang. Wild Swan or Wild Swans may also refer to: * Swan, a bird * " The Wild Swans", a 1838 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen ** ''The Wild Swans'' (1962 film), a Soviet animated film ** ''The Wild Swans'' (1977 film), a Japanese anime fantasy film ** ''The Wild Swans'', a 1999 novel by Peg Kerr ** ''Wild Swans'' (ballet), a 2003 ballet composed by Elena Kats-Chernin * ''The Wild Swans at Coole'', a poetry collection by W. B. Yeats ** "The Wild Swans at Coole" (poem), a poem in the above collection * The Wild Swans (band), a band from Liverpool, England * ''The Wild Swan'', a 2016 album by Foy Vance * "Wild Swan", a 1988 song by Magnum off the album '' Wings of Heaven'' * HMS ''Wild Swan'', two ships of the Royal Navy * ''Wild Swans'' (2023 film), an Indian Boro-language drama film See also * Swan (other) A swan is a bird of the genus ''Cygnus'' (true swans) or ''Coscoroba'' (coscoroba swans). Swan, swans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Swans
''Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China'' is a family history that spans a century, recounting the lives of three female generations in China, by Chinese writer Jung Chang. First published in 1991, ''Wild Swans'' contains the biographies of her grandmother and her mother, then finally her own autobiography. Her grandmother had bound feet and was married off at a young age as the concubine of a high-status warlord. Chang's mother rose in status as a member of the Communist Party. Chang took part in the Cultural Revolution as a member of the Red Guards, but eventually her father was tortured and she was sent to the countryside for thought reform. Later, she earned a scholarship to study in England, where she still lives. ''Wild Swans'' won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. It has been translated into 37 languages and sold over 13 million copies. Synopsis Chang's Grandmother's story The book starts by relating the biography of Chang's grandmother ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swan
Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe (biology), tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six living and many extinct species of swan; in addition, there is a species known as the coscoroba swan which is no longer considered one of the true swans. Swans usually mate for life, although "divorce" sometimes occurs, particularly following nesting failure, and if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another. The number of bird egg, eggs in each :wikt:clutch, clutch ranges from three to eight. Etymology and terminology The English word ''swan'', akin to the German language, German , Dutch language, Dutch and Swedish language, Swedish , is derived from Indo-European root ' ('to sound, to sing'). Young swans are kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swans
The Wild Swans (Danish: ''De vilde svaner'') is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her 11 brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838 in Andersen's '' Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet'' (''Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Første Hefte'') by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark. It has been adapted to various media including ballet, television, and film. It is categorized as an Aarne-Thompson type 451 ("The Brothers Who Were Turned into Birds"). Other type 451 variants include such as ''The Twelve Brothers,'' ''The Six Swans'', ''The Seven Ravens'', ''The Twelve Wild Ducks'' and '' Udea and her Seven Brothers''. Synopsis In a faraway kingdom, there lives a widowed king with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry, but marries a wicked queen who is a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swans (1962 Film)
''The Wild Swans'' (russian: Дикие лебеди, ''Dikiye lebedi'') is a 1962 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by the husband-and-wife team of Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya. The film is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. Unusual for Soviet films of this period, and especially for animated films, it was produced in widescreen. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. Plot The princess Elisa and her eleven brothers live in peace and happiness until their father marries again and brings home a new queen. She turns out to be an evil witch. With her magic, she tries to curse Elisa, but Elisa's good heart repel the curse. Instead, the queen resorts to blackening Elisa's face and dirtying her hair, making her unrecognisable. She also attempts to turn the eleven princes into black, ugly birds, but because of their good hearts, the curse is only partly successful: they turn into beautiful white swans. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swans (1977 Film)
is a 1977 Japanese anime fantasy film produced by Toei Animation, based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale ''The Six Swans'' and on Hans Christian Andersen's variation ''The Wild Swans''. The film was first shown in Japan on 19 March 1977 in the ''Toei Manga Matsuri'' (''Toei Cartoon Festival''). ''The Wild Swans'' represents the first entry in Toei's ''World Masterpiece Fairy Tales'' movie series, followed by ''Thumbelina'' (1978), '' Twelve Months'' (1980), ''Swan Lake'' (1981), and '' Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'' (1982). Plot King Hildebrand is hunting in the woods when he gets lost and asks an old woman for help. The old woman promises the King that her daughter Greta can show him the way out if he agrees to marry her. Enamored by Greta's beauty, King Hildebrand accepts her proposal and takes Greta back to the castle with him. However, King Hildebrand has seven young children: six boys, and a girl named Eliza. Greta becomes jealous of them as the King frequently leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Kerr
Peg Kerr (born 28 April of undisclosed year) is an American fantasy author. Biography She was born in a suburb of Chicago and moved to Minnesota to attend St. Olaf College. She received an M.A. in English Literature in 1990, specializing in speculative fiction. She lives with her two daughters in Minneapolis; she and her daughters are students of the martial arts. Her husband, Robert F. Ihinger, died in 2018. Kerr has been publishing short fiction since 1987 and attended the Clarion Workshop in 1988; her stories have been published in ''Tales of the Unanticipated, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' and several anthologies. Kerr's first novel ''Emerald House Rising'' was published in 1997 by Warner Aspect, and received praise for the degree of care and detail with which it treated the subjects of jewelry crafting and gemcutting, as well as the unusual sociology she constructed around them. Her second novel ''The Wild Swans'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Swans (ballet)
''Wild Swans'' is a ballet by Meryl Tankard with score by Soviet-born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. The story is based on ''The Wild Swans'' by Hans Christian Andersen and tells the tale of Eliza, a princess whose wicked-witch stepmother has changed Eliza's eleven brothers into swans. Eliza must knit magic shirts from stinging nettles in order to break the spell and transform her brothers back into human form. With its basis in a fairy tale, the ballet follows in the tradition of Tchaikovsky's ''The Nutcracker'' and ''Swan Lake'', with ballet scores by Russian-born composers Prokofiev and Stravinsky also acknowledged influences. The ballet was commissioned by the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Opera House. The score was completed in 2002 in collaboration with choreographer Meryl Tankard, who also worked with Kats-Chernin on part of the opening ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. It was given its premiere by the Australian Ballet at the Sydney Opera House on 29 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swans At Coole
''The Wild Swans at Coole'' is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919. Publication history ''The Wild Swans at Coole'', a collection of twenty-nine poems and the play ''At the Hawk's Well'', was first published by the Cuala Press in November 1917. The title poem of the collection had first appeared in the '' Little Review'' in June of that year. Macmillan (London and New York) republished the poems in March 1919 without the play but with an additional seventeen poems. The completed volume, also called ''The Wild Swans at Coole'', represents the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned, amongst other themes, with Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic. Poems in ''The Wild Swans at Coole'' (1917) *" The Wild Swans at Coole" *"Men Improve with the Years" *"The Collar-Bone of a Hare" *"Lines Written in Dejection" *"The Dawn" *"On Woman" *"The Fisherman" *"The Hawk" *"Memory" *"Her Praise" *"The People" *"His Pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swans At Coole (poem)
"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the '' Little Review'', and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections ''The Wild Swans at Coole''. It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and the assembled collection was dedicated to her son, Major Robert Gregory (1881–1918), a British airman killed during a friendly fire incident in the First World War. Literary scholar Daniel Tobin writes that Yeats was melancholy and unhappy, reflecting on his advancing age, romantic rejections by both Maud Gonne and her daughter Iseult Gonne, and the ongoing Irish rebellion against the British. Tobin reflects that the poem is about the poet's search for a lasting beauty in a changing world where beauty is mortal and temporary. Style and structure The poem has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swans (band)
The Wild Swans is a post-punk band from Liverpool, England, which originally formed in 1980 shortly after Paul Simpson (musician), Paul Simpson (ex-keyboards) left The Teardrop Explodes. The band's personnel has been subject to regular turnover, with vocalist Simpson being the only constant member. The original incarnation of The Wild Swans lasted until 1982, issuing one single. A reconstituted version of the band issued two albums from 1988 to 1990 before dissolving again. More recently, Simpson put a new lineup together and the group played numerous live dates from 2009 to 2011, and issued a new studio album in 2011. The Wild Swans have not to date had any mainstream chart hits, but they have enjoyed a degree of success and/or cult status in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, UK, the United States, US, and especially the Philippines. The Wild Swans also spun off two charting splinter projects; Care (band), Care and The Lotus Eaters (new wave), The Lotus Eaters. Members of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swan
''The Wild Swan'' is the third album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter, Foy Vance. On this album, Foy Vance channels a wide variety of styles. The song "Upbeat Feelgood" was compared to Van Morrison by the Irish Times. Elton John executive produced the album. Track listing Every track written by Foy Vance, except "Ziggy Looked Me in the Eye" written by Vance and Marc Bolan Personnel Adapted from AllMusic: * Foy Vance – keyboards, guitar, mando-guitar, vocals * Eric Darken – chimes, percussion, vibraphone * Mike Farris – backing vocals * Clare Hadwen – violin * Richard Hadwen – viola * Paul Hamilton – drums, percussion, backing vocals * Leisa Hans – backing vocals * Jim Hoke – piano, saxophone * Alys Jackson – violin * Tim Lauer – accordion, dulcimer, keyboards, harmonium * Kolton Lee – baritone guitar * Colm McClean – guitar, steel guitar, Mandocaster * Conor McCreanor – bass guitar, double bass * Blake Mills – slide guitar * Darragh Murphy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wings Of Heaven
''Wings of Heaven'' is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Magnum, released in 1988. The original choice of producers for ''Wings of Heaven'' was Roger Taylor and Dave Richards, who had produced ''Vigilante''. This was not realised because of conflicting schedules. Albert Boekholt was suggested at Wisseloord Studios, the Netherlands. The album was mixed at Sarm West Studios in London in January 1988. One song was announced, "That's How The Blues Must Start", but was dropped from the album. ''Wings of Heaven'' was their first studio album to gain both critical and commercial success and the first to achieve a top 10 placing, which it did in Sweden #2, the UK #5, Switzerland #7 and Norway #8. It also made the Top 20 in Germany hitting #19. The album is certified Silver in the United Kingdom, meaning it has shipped over 60,000 copies. In November 2007, Magnum toured the UK celebrating the 20th anniversary of the album. These shows were recorded for the ''Wings of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
