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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810439103321

Titolo

Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale / / edited by Stephen Benson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8143-3582-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

209 p

Collana

Series in fairy-tale studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BensonStephen <1969->

Disciplina

823/.914093559

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature and folklore - History - 20th century

Fairy tales in literature

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Intertextuality

Literary form - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.