Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale
By: edited by Stephen Benson.
Contributors: Benson, Stephen
Series: Series in fairy-tale studies
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780814332542
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and folklore -- History -- 20th century; Fairy tales in literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Intertextuality; Literary form -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: fiction and the contemporaneity of the fairy tale / Stephen Benson; title: Penetrating to the heart of The bloody chamber : Angela Carter and the fairy tale / Sarah Gamble; title: Migrant fictions : Salman Rushdie and the fairy tale / Andrew Teverson; title: "Ancient forms" : myth, fairy tale, and narrative in A. S. Byatt's fiction / Elizabeth Wanning Harries; title: Margaret Atwood and the fairy tale : postmodern revisioning in recent texts / Sharon R. Wilson; title: The late fairy tales of Robert Coover / Stephen Benson; title: Theorizing fairy-tale fiction, reading Jeanette Winterson / Merja Makinen; title: Extrapolating from Nalo Hopkinson's Skin folk : reflections on transformation and recent English-language fairy-tale fiction by women / Cristina Bacchilega.