| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
At the Interface/Probing the boundaries ; volume 129
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 129.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"For centuries, fairy tales and folktales have given us--children and adults--the opportunity to escape from reality by transporting us to magical worlds of flying broomsticks, enchanted forests, spells, ogres, talking animals, princes, princesses, castles and dragons." |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1. Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales. 1. The Cursed Fairy : Broken Spells in Anne Sexton's Poetry -- 2. Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch -- 3. Fairy-Tale Reflections : Space and Women Host(age)s in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird -- 4. Un-Training the Imagination through Adaptation : an Exploration of Gender through Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle -- 5. 'There Are Always Choices. She Made One' : an Existential Approach to Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle -- 6. The British Empire's Lost Slipper : Dangerous Irish Cinderellas -- 7. Cinderboy and Snow White and the Seven Aliens : Analysis of the Rewriting of Two Classic Tales and Their Translations to Spanish -- 8. Resistance and Revolt : Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Re-Viewed -- 9. Empowered Fairy-Tale Heroines Reinvent Happily-Ever-After -- 10. The Strongest of the Fairies : Reworking Gender and Villainy in Walt Disney's Maleficent -- 11. 'There's Always a Bright Side' : Poppy, a Positive Role Model in Trolls -- Part 2. The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales. 12. Far from Beastly : Monstrous Imaginations in Postmodern Fairy-Tale Films -- 13. Echoes of Fairy Tales : Fantasy and Everyday Horrors in Guillermo del Toro's Filmography -- 14. From Fairy Tales to Slasher Films : Little Red Riding Hood and Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left -- 15. Howling in the Woods : Angela Carter's Metamorphosed Little Red Riding Hoods -- 16. Red Shoes, Witches and Creatures of the Forest : Dolores Redondo's Baztan Trilogy as Contemporary Fairy Tale -- 17. 'A Happy Person Never Phantasies' : Repression and Projection of the Self in John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things -- 18. 'Children were terrified of her' : Interpreting Susan Hill's The Woman in Black as a Folktale -- 19. The Broken Voice of History : Fairy Tales, Anti-Tales, and Holocaust Representation -- 20. Peter Pan Goes to War : the Reimaging and Exploration of J.M. Barrie's Story as a Historically Realistic Graphic Novel -- Part 3. Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales. 21. Mary Poppins : the Subversive Magic Helper -- 22. Rodents in Children's Literature and Audiovisual Fairy Tales : a Book-to-Film Adaptation Approach -- 23. Bear Tales : Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children's Literature -- 24. Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale : a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli Productions -- 25. Contemporary Japanese Folktales Represented in Anime : the Paradigmatic Case of InuYasha -- 26. Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales : the Case of Croatian Tales of Long Ago -- 27. The Mark of Fairy Tales on Galician Literature for Children and Young Adults -- 28. Where Else but Reading? Blending Genres in Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime Series -- 29. Following the Lead of Fairy Tales : Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion -- 30. Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme's Postmodern Fairy Tales. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales in literature.
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Fairy tales in motion pictures.
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Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Folklore in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales -- Adaptations |
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Fairy tales |
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Fairy tales in literature |
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Fairy tales in motion pictures |
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Folklore in literature |
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Literature, Modern |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Brugué, Lydia, editor, author.
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Llompart, Auba, editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brugué, Lydia. Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic : Subverting Gender and Genre. Boston : BRILL, ©2020 9789004418981 |
| ISBN |
9789004418998 (electronic book) |
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9004418997 (electronic book) |
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9789004418981 (paperback) |
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9004418989 (paperback) |
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