TITLE: |
Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale / edited by Stephen Benson. |
SERIES: |
Series in fairy-tale studies |
PUBLISHED: |
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008. |
DESCRIPTION: |
209 p. ; 23 cm. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
NOTES: |
Introduction: fiction and the contemporaneity of the fairy tale / Stephen Benson -- Penetrating to the heart of The bloody chamber : Angela Carter and the fairy tale / Sarah Gamble -- Migrant fictions : Salman Rushdie and the fairy tale / Andrew Teverson -- "Ancient forms" : myth, fairy tale, and narrative in A.S. Byatt’s fiction / Elizabeth Wanning Harries -- Margaret Atwood and the fairy tale : postmodern revisioning in recent texts / Sharon R. Wilson -- The late fairy tales of Robert Coover / Stephen Benson -- Theorizing fairy-tale fiction, reading Jeanette Winterson / Merja Makinen -- Extrapolating from Nalo Hopkinson’s Skin folk : reflections on transformation and recent English-language fairy-tale fiction by women / Cristina Bacchilega. |
SUBJECT: |
English fiction --20th century --History and criticism --Theory, etc. |
SUBJECT: |
Literature and folklore --History --20th century. |
SUBJECT: |
Fairy tales in literature. |
SUBJECT: |
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
SUBJECT: |
Intertextuality. |
SUBJECT: |
Literary form --History --20th century. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Benson, Stephen (Stephen Frank) |