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Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale / edited by Stephen Benson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Series in fairy-tale studies.
- Series in fairy-tale studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English fiction.
- Literature and folklore--History--20th century.
- Literature and folklore.
- Fairy tales in literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Intertextuality.
- Literary form--History--20th century.
- Literary form.
- Physical Description:
- 209 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.
- Contents:
- Introduction: fiction and the contemporaneity of the fairy tale / Stephen Benson
- Penetrating to the heart of The bloody chamber : Angela Carter and the fairy tale / Sarah Gamble
- Migrant fictions : Salman Rushdie and the fairy tale / Andrew Teverson
- "Ancient forms" : myth, fairy tale, and narrative in A.S. Byatt's fiction / Elizabeth Wanning Harries
- Margaret Atwood and the fairy tale : postmodern revisioning in recent texts / Sharon R. Wilson
- The late fairy tales of Robert Coover / Stephen Benson
- Theorizing fairy-tale fiction, reading Jeanette Winterson / Merja Makinen
- Extrapolating from Nalo Hopkinson's Skin folk : reflections on transformation and recent English-language fairy-tale fiction by women / Cristina Bacchilega.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814335826
- 0814335829
- OCLC:
- 778073878
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