The fairy-tale vanguard : literary self-consciousness in a marvelous genre / edited by Stijn Praet and Anna Kérchy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Praet, Stijn

Contributor:

Praet, Stijn, editor.

Kerchy, Anna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--History and criticism.

Fairy tales.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

Ever since its early modern inception as a literary genre unto its own, the fairy tale has frequently provided authors with a textual space in which to reflect on the nature, status and function of their own writing and that of literature in general. At the same time, it has served as an ideal laboratory for exploring and experimenting with the boundaries of literary convention and propriety. While scholarship pertaining to these phenomena has focused primarily on the fairy-tale adaptations and deconstructions of postmodern(ist) writers, this essay collection adopts a more diachronic approach. It offers fairy-tale scholars and students a series of theoretical and literary-historical expositions, as well as case studies on English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, and Romanian texts from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, by authors as diverse as Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Rikki Ducornet, Hans Christian Andersen and Robert Coover.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Response to Part One

Part Two

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Response to Part Two

Interview with a Vanguard Author

Contributors

Index of Keywords, Literary Authors, and Titles.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5275-3654-8

OCLC:

1183030734