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At the same time, the production and reproduction of fairy tales has been flourishing from the nineteenth century onwards. Contemporary literary, popular, and visual adaptations of fairy tales are so frequent that they have become a recognisable domain of research.
Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings By Susan Redington Bobby No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect the social, political, and cultural truths of our age with insight, intelligence, and complexity.
Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers, applying a variety of theoretical perspectives, including postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, structuralism, queer theory, and gender studies.
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Fairy tales reimagined: essays on new retellings (Book review) Makinen, Merja (2011) Fairy tales reimagined: essays on new retellings (Book review). Marvels and tales, 25 (1). pp. 169-171.
Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers, applying a variety of perspectives, including postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer theory and gender studies.
Under this name, she has published Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings (2009), Beyond His Dark Materials: Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman (2012), and The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture: Essays on Fiction, Film, and Television (with co-editor Dr. Eileen Harney; 2016). Susan has also published various.
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This essay collection is a response to the avalanche of newly written fairy tales, both in prose, verse and multimedia, short-story and novel length, by famous and less famous male and female writers, revealing the endless ways of twisting, fracturing, and queering the fairy tale that contemporary writers employ.
Although readers and filmgoers are strongly familiar with Disney’s sanitized child-centric fairy tales, they are quick to catch on to reworkings of classic tales into a contemporary context. The rise is such retellings seems to indicate that readers are hungry for a new narrative, one that hearkens back to the old yet moves the storyline forward to reflect conditions of the modern world.
This is a critical examination of the writers of the late 20th - early 21st centuries whose re-inventions of the literary fairy tale mirror the social, political, and cultural climate of the age. Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through contemporary short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers. The essays apply a variety of.
Books shelved as fairy-tale-criticism: The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack D. Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: Th.
The rise is such retellings seems to indicate that readers are hungry for a new narrative, one that hearkens back to the old yet moves the storyline forward to reflect conditions of the modern world. No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect social, political and cultural truths.
