Cargando…
Into the Woods of Wicked Wonderland : Musicals Revise Fairy Tales.
This work explores the dynamics of the metamorphosis that the classical fairy tales have undergone throughout the centuries. Such analysis is conducted from a literary and from a memetic point of view, through an investigation that aims at outlining the role of the fairy tale within the relationship...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
|
| Colección: | Anglistische Forschungen.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1 (Re- )Considerations on the Fairy Tale; 1.1 The Postmodern Revision of the Fairy Tale; 1.2 The Fairy Tale and Cultural Evolution; 1.2.1 A phylogenetic perspective; 1.2.2 The rhizomatic fairy tale; 1.3 Evolutions of the Fairy Tale; 1.3.1 Literary rewritings and revisions; 1.3.2 Transposition; 1.4 The disneyfied fairy tale; 2 Musical Theatre as Narrative Performance; 2.1 Storytelling, cultural performance, and the musical; 2.2 Approaching performances: semiotic and phenomenological approach; 2.3 The integrated musical; 2.3.1 Multimodal coherence.
- 3 Intertextual Exchanges in the Woods3.1 Fairy tales and musical theatre; 3.2 'Intertextuality': terminology's vagueness; 3.3 Defining fairy-tale merging; 3.4 Fairy-tale merging in Into the Woods; 3.4.1 A fairy tale about fairy tales; 3.4.2 Interconnections in the unified fairy tale kingdom; 3.5 "Into the woods, then out of the woods, and home before dark; 3.6 The sexual Self: "I Know Things Now; 3.7 Never mind the Witch's story; 4 Intermodal Exchanges in the Land of Oz; 4.1 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; 4.2 Maguire's Wicked: de-constructing the Wicked Witch of the West.
- 4.3 The rewriting of the rewriting: Wicked the musical4.3.1 Weaving the story; 4.3.2 Glinda the Good; 4.4 The reconstruction of the witch; 5 Interpersonal Exchanges in Wonderland; 5.1 Lewis Carroll and the Victorian fairy tale; 5.2 The Alice books; 5.3 The Alice meme; 5.3.1 From Carroll to Burton, via Disney; 5.4 Wonderland: A New Alice; 5.5 Staring at the looking-glass; References.