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Contemporary fairy-tale magic : subverting gender and genre /
"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."
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2020]
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 129. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.