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Craving Supernatural Creatures German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture / Claudia Schwabe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwabe, Claudia.
- Series:
- Series in fairy-tale studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore in popular culture--United States.
- Folklore in popular culture.
- Fairy tales--Germany--Adaptations.
- Fairy tales.
- Germany.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Analyzes the portrayal of German fairy-tale figures in contemporary North American media adaptations.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Reimagining Uncanny Fairy-Tale Creatures: Automatons, Golems, and Doppelgangers
- 2. Evil Queens and Witches: Mischievous Villians or Misunderstood Victims?
- 3. Taming the Monstrous Other: Representations of the Rehabilitated Big Bad Beast in American Media
- 4. Dwarfs, Diversity, and Deformation: From Fairy-Tale Imps to Rumpelstiltskin Reloaded
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8143-4197-7
- OCLC:
- 1101531814
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