Uncanny fairy tales : hybrid wonders in the mirror / Francesca Arnavas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnavas, Francesca, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Among the Victorians and modernists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--Psychological aspects.

Fairy tales.

Fairy tales in literature.

Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Francesca Arnavas is a cognitive narratologist and a specialist in Victorian and fantasy literature. She received her PhD in English and Related Literature from the University of York, UK, in 2018. She now works as a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia, within the research group Narrative, Culture, and Cognition. She has researched and published on Victorian literature (especially Lewis Carroll), cognitive narratology, and literary Victorian and postmodern fairy tales. Her first monograph was published by De Gruyter (2021), within the Narratologia series.

Contents:

The shell in the woods: questioning the "unnatural" through uncanny fairy tales' mirrors, wonder, and hybridity

Halls of mirrors: uncanny glassworlds in the castles of the mind

Fairy brides, floating princesses, jabberwocks: hybrid uncanniness and fairyland pastiches

Uncanny wonders: puzzling lands, dragons, and dreams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Arnavas, Francesca. Uncanny fairy tales

ISBN:

9781003403449

1003403441

9781040028193

1040028195

9781040028247

1040028241

Publisher Number:

40032397611

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.