Contemporary fairy-tale magic : subverting gender and genre /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020] |
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| Description: | xviii, 340 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; volume 129 At the interface/probing the boundaries ; vol. 129. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12030934 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 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
- Index
