Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale /
Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In this work the editor argues that fairy tales are one of the key influences on fiction of the past thirty years and also continue to shape literary trends in the present. Contributors det...
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Series in fairy-tale studies.
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Table of 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.
