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Author Sellers, Susan.

Title Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction / Susan Sellers.

Publication Info. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

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 Moore Stacks  PR888.M95 S45 2001    Available  ---
Description ix, 198 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
Contents Context: theories of myth -- Double-voice of laughter: Metamorphosing monsters and rescripting female desire in A.S. Byatt's 'the djinn in the nightingale's eye' and Fay Weldon's the life and loves of a she devil -- Re-creation in other love: myth-breaking and myth-making in Christine Crow's miss x or the wolf woman and Helene Cixous's the book of Promethea -- Becoming gods and umbilical wordbrows: the new hagiography of Michele Roberts -- Unlimited horror: vampires, sex-slaves and paragons of the feminine in Anne rice and Emma Tennant -- Bodies of power: beauty myths in tales by Marina Warner, Emma Donoghue, Sheri Tepper, and Alice Thompson -- New myths or old? Angela Carter's mirrors and mothers.
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Myth in literature.
Myth in literature.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
History.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- Adaptations.
Feminist fiction -- History and criticism.
Feminist fiction.
Feminism in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
ISBN 0333720156 paperback
0333720148 acid-free paper

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