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.

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

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.

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'.

Mapping Fairy-Tale Space

Author: Christy Williams
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814343848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Examines how popular fairy tales collapse narrative borders and reimagine the genre for the twenty-first century. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. It analyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and Secret Garden (a Korean drama), the young-adult novel series The Lunar Chronicles, the Indexing serial novels, and three experimental short works of fiction by Kelly Link. Some of these texts reconfigure well-known fairy tales by combining individual tales into a single storyworld; others self-referentially turn to fairy tales for guidance. These contemporary tales have at their center a crisis about the relevance and sustainability of fairy tales, and Williams argues that they both engage the fairy tale as a relevant genre and remake it to create a new kind of fairy tale. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space is divided into two parts. Part 1 analyzes fairy-tale texts that collapse multiple distinct fairy tales so they inhabit the same storyworld, transforming the fairy-tale genre into a fictional geography of borderless tales. Williams examines the complex narrative restructuring enabled by this form of mash-up and expands postmodern arguments to suggest that fairy-tale pastiche is a critical mode of retelling that celebrates the fairy-tale genre while it critiques outdated ideological constructs. Part 2 analyzes the metaphoric use of fairy tales as maps, or guides, for lived experience. In these texts, characters use fairy tales both to navigate and to circumvent their own situations, but the tales are ineffectual maps until the characters chart different paths and endings for themselves or reject the tales as maps altogether. Williams focuses on how inventive narrative and visual storytelling techniques enable metafictional commentary on fairy tales in the texts themselves. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space argues that in remaking the fairy-tale genre, these texts do not so much chart unexplored territory as they approach existing fairy-tale space from new directions, remapping the genre as our collective use of fairy tales changes. Students and scholars of fairy-tale and media studies will welcome this fresh approach.