Postmodern Fairy Tales

Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to analyze their varying representations of women.

Fairy Tales Transformed?

Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081433928X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.

Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales

Author: Vanessa Joosen
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814334522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
An intertextual approach to fairy-tale criticism and fairy-tale retellings -- Marcia K. Lieberman's "Some day my prince will come"--Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The madwoman in the attic.

The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Richard Perez
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030398358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 651

Book Description
The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.

Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales

Author: Anna Kerchy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780773415195
Category : Animated films
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales : How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings

Postmodern Fairy Tales

Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: "Snow White," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Bluebeard." Bacchilega traces the oral sources of each tale, offers a provocative interpretation of contemporary versions by Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Margaret Atwood, and Tanith Lee, and explores the ways in which the tales are transformed in film, television, and musicals.

The Postmodern Fairytale

Author: Kevin Paul Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591701
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the most unexpected places and why the best storytellers begin their tales with 'once upon a time'.

Fairy Tales and Feminism

Author: Donald Haase
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330302
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. Now, after three decades of provocative criticism and controversy, this book reevaluates the feminist critique of fairy tales.

Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned

Author: Gretchen Schultz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691191417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
"The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.

Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times

Author: Shuli Barzilai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136096582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author’s adaptation of the story. Whereas Charles Dickens, for example, expresses a sympathetic identification with Bluebeard, and a discernable strain of misogyny emerges in his recreation of the tale and recurrent allusions to it, his contemporary, William Makepeace Thackeray, uses the tale as a springboard for his critique of avarice, hypocrisy, pretension, and the subjugation of women in Victorian society.