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1 online resource (541 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Hyperread : repurposing children's literature and digital storytelling / Dorothy G. Clarke -- Solon des Fees : Cyber salon: re-coding the commodified fairy tale / Helen Pilinovsky -- Imagining the fairy tale : production design in Neil Jordan's The company of wolves and Ridley Scott's Legend / Andrea Wright -- Having a ball : intertextuality and the performance of feminine identity in a Maguy Marin's dance work, Cinderella / Dorothy Morrissey -- King rat to Coraline : faerie and fairy tale in British urban fantasy / Adam Zolkover -- Steampunk : technofantasies in a neo-victorian retrofuture / Mike Perschon -- Postmodern fantasies of salvation : interfacing forensic crime fiction and fairy tale in Tim Burton's Corpse bride / Ingrida Povidisa and Anna Kerchy -- The intermedial/inter-authorial dynamics of text/image in Rikki Ducornet's The one marvelous thing decorated by T. Motley / Michelle Ryan-Sautour -- Re-envisioning of fairy tales in contemporary Japanese art : the post-feminist aesthetics of the grotesque-cute guru-kawaii / Mayako Murai -- Reclaiming the lost code : feminist imaginations of the fairy-tale genesis : Olga Broumas's and Nicole Cooley's revisions / Vanessa Joosen -- Anti-fairy tale and the demythologizing business in Jan Campion's The piano / David Calvin -- Monsters beneath the skin : Angela Carter's "The courtship of Mr. Lyon" as a palimpsest in Snow Patrol's "Absolute gravity" / Andrea Schutz -- Bella and her beastly choices : exploring the fairy tale in the Twilight phenomenon / Natalie Robinson -- From Shakespeare to Carter : metamorphic interplay in Angela Carter's pornographic fantasy : "Ouverture and incidental music for a midsummer night's dream" / Sabine Coelsch-Foisner -- Postmodern fantasies of corporeality : identity and visual agency in postmodern anatomy theaters / Attila Kiss -- Monstrous skins and hybrid identities in Catherynne M. Valente's The orphan tales / Jeana Jorgensen -- Cyborg children, illuminous rabbits, snowman : Margaret Atwood's Oryx and crake and The year of the flood as speculative fiction / Katarina Labudova -- Fairy tale fashionista : Angela Carter dresses wolf-Alice / Susan Small -- Adventure games in the faerian machine : fairy tales in ludic environments / Peter Kristof Makai -- "Where we can dream ourselves into being" : science-fictional fairylands as transitional sites to post- or trans- humanity / Sarah Herba -- Fictitious fairy-stories : writing a fictitious character in Lord of the rings / Gergely Nagy -- "Cover your eyes and count to a hundred" : Freud's Uncanny and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's labyrinth / Jacqueline Ford -- A transmedial narratological reading of racialized and colonial sexual fantasies in the libertarian feminist graphic novel, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost girls / Ida Yoshinaga -- (Re- )reading (post- ) surrealism through Dorothea Tanning's Chasm : the femme-enfant tears through the text / Catriona Fay McAra -- Dancing in worn slippers : narration, affect and subversion in Jeanette Winterson's "Story of the twelve dancing princesses" / Caroline Webb -- A corpusemiotical interpretation of a postmodern Alice tale : embodied nonsense in Terry Gillam's Tideland / Anna Kerchy. |
| Summary |
These essays analyze the intersection of fairy tale, fantasy and reality in postmodern artistic texts. The editor underscores the transformation of both the reader-writer relationship and epistemological and ontological considerations by new technologies and emerging subgenres. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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20th century |
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, English. |
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Fairy tales in literature.
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Fairy tales in literature. |
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Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales -- Adaptations. |
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Fairy tales in art.
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Fairy tales in art. |
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Fantasy films -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy films. |
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Animated films -- History and criticism.
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Animated films. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Adaptations.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Adaptations.
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| Added Author |
Kérchy, Anna.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kérchy, Anna. Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales : How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2011 9780773415195 |
| ISBN |
9780773411623 (electronic book) |
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0773411623 (electronic book) |
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