Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic
Subverting Gender and Genre
Published on 23. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
356 pages
978-90-04-41898-1 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugue and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences. We are currently witnessing a resurgence of fairy tales and fairy-tale characters and motifs in art and popular culture, as well as an increasing and renewed interest in reinventing and subverting these narratives to adapt them to the expectations and needs of the contemporary public. The collected essays also observe how the influence of academic disciplines like Gender Studies and current literary and cinematic trends play an important part in the revision of fairy-tale plots, characters and themes.
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Edition
pp. xviii, 340
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-41898-1 (9789004418981)
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Persons
Lydia Brugue, Ph.D. (2013), Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, is Professor of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include fairy tales, Film Studies and Translation Studies.
Auba Llompart, Ph.D. (2014), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, is Professor of English Language and Culture at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include English literature, children's literature and fairy tales, Gothic Studies and Gender Studies.
Auba Llompart, Ph.D. (2014), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, is Professor of English Language and Culture at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include English literature, children's literature and fairy tales, Gothic Studies and Gender Studies.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1
Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales
1 The Cursed Fairy: Broken Spells in Anne Sexton's Poetry
?Francisco Jose Cortes Vieco
2 Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch
?Maria Amor Barros del Rio
3 Fairy-Tale Reflections: Space and Women Host(age)s in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird
?Paula Barba Guerrero
4 Un-training the Imagination through Adaptation: an Exploration of Gender through Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle
?Jade Lum
5 'There Are Always Choices. She Made One': an Existentialist Approach to Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle
?Alba Torres Alvarez
6 The British Empire's Lost Slipper: Dangerous Irish Cinderellas
?Abigail Heiniger
7 Cinderboy and Snow White and the Seven Aliens: Analysis of the Rewriting of Two Classic Tales and Their Translations to Spanish
?Ana Pereira Rodriguez and Lourdes Lorenzo Garcia
8 Resistance and Revolt: Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Re-Viewed
?Sarah Bonner
9 Empowered Fairy-Tale Heroines Reinvent Happily-Ever-After
?Lisa L. Ortiz and Sheila M. Rucki
10 The Strongest of the Fairies: Reworking Gender and Villainy in Walt Disney's Maleficent
?Lydia Brugue and Auba Llompart
11 'There's Always a Bright Side': Poppy, a Positive Role Model in Trolls
?Sara Martin
Part 2
The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales
12 Far from Beastly: Monstrous Imaginations in Postmodern Fairy-Tale Films
?Claudia Schwabe
13 Echoes of Fairy Tales: Fantasy and Everyday Horrors in Guillermo del Toro's Filmography
?Gema Navarro Goig and Francisco Javier Sanchez-Verdejo Perez
14 From Fairy Tales to Slasher Films: Little Red Riding Hood and Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left
?Javier Martin-Parraga
15 Howling in the Woods: Angela Carter's Metamorphosed Little Red Riding Hoods
?Nerea Riobo-Perez
16 Red Shoes, Witches and Creatures of the Forest: Dolores Redondo's Baztan Trilogy as Contemporary Fairy Tale
?Miriam Borham-Puyal
17 'A Happy Person Never Phantasies': Repression and Projection of the Self in Monstrous Fairy Tales
?Stephanie Weber
18 'Children were terrified of her': Interpreting Susan Hill's The Woman in Black as a Folktale
?Marta Miquel-Baldellou
19 The Broken Voice of History: Fairy Tales, Anti-Tales, and Holocaust Representation
?Maria Jesus Martinez-Alfaro
20 Peter Pan Goes to War: the Reimaging and Exploration of J. M. Barrie's Story as a Historically Realistic Graphic Novel
?Stephane Greffrath
Part 3
Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales
21 Mary Poppins: The Subversive Magic Helper
?Renata Marosi
22 Rodents in Children's Literature and Audiovisual Fairy Tales: a Book-to-Film Adaptation Approach
?Rebeca Cristina Lopez Gonzalez
23 Bear Tales: Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children's Literature
?Lizanne Henderson
24 Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale: a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli Productions
?Eduardo Barros-Grela
25 Contemporary Japanese Folktales Represented in Anime: the Paradigmatic Case of InuYasha
?Alba Quintairos-Solino
26 Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales: the Case of Croatian Tales of Long Ago
?Estela Banov
27 The Mark of Fairy Tales in Galician Literature for Children and Young Adults
?Carmen Ferreira Boo
28 Where Else but Reading? Blending Genres in Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime Series
?Miriam Fernandez-Santiago
29 Following the Lead of Fairy Tales: Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion
?Maria Jose Coperias-Aguilar
30 Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme's Postmodern Fairy Tales
?Luisa Maria Gonzalez Rodriguez
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1
Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales
1 The Cursed Fairy: Broken Spells in Anne Sexton's Poetry
?Francisco Jose Cortes Vieco
2 Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch
?Maria Amor Barros del Rio
3 Fairy-Tale Reflections: Space and Women Host(age)s in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird
?Paula Barba Guerrero
4 Un-training the Imagination through Adaptation: an Exploration of Gender through Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle
?Jade Lum
5 'There Are Always Choices. She Made One': an Existentialist Approach to Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle
?Alba Torres Alvarez
6 The British Empire's Lost Slipper: Dangerous Irish Cinderellas
?Abigail Heiniger
7 Cinderboy and Snow White and the Seven Aliens: Analysis of the Rewriting of Two Classic Tales and Their Translations to Spanish
?Ana Pereira Rodriguez and Lourdes Lorenzo Garcia
8 Resistance and Revolt: Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Re-Viewed
?Sarah Bonner
9 Empowered Fairy-Tale Heroines Reinvent Happily-Ever-After
?Lisa L. Ortiz and Sheila M. Rucki
10 The Strongest of the Fairies: Reworking Gender and Villainy in Walt Disney's Maleficent
?Lydia Brugue and Auba Llompart
11 'There's Always a Bright Side': Poppy, a Positive Role Model in Trolls
?Sara Martin
Part 2
The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales
12 Far from Beastly: Monstrous Imaginations in Postmodern Fairy-Tale Films
?Claudia Schwabe
13 Echoes of Fairy Tales: Fantasy and Everyday Horrors in Guillermo del Toro's Filmography
?Gema Navarro Goig and Francisco Javier Sanchez-Verdejo Perez
14 From Fairy Tales to Slasher Films: Little Red Riding Hood and Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left
?Javier Martin-Parraga
15 Howling in the Woods: Angela Carter's Metamorphosed Little Red Riding Hoods
?Nerea Riobo-Perez
16 Red Shoes, Witches and Creatures of the Forest: Dolores Redondo's Baztan Trilogy as Contemporary Fairy Tale
?Miriam Borham-Puyal
17 'A Happy Person Never Phantasies': Repression and Projection of the Self in Monstrous Fairy Tales
?Stephanie Weber
18 'Children were terrified of her': Interpreting Susan Hill's The Woman in Black as a Folktale
?Marta Miquel-Baldellou
19 The Broken Voice of History: Fairy Tales, Anti-Tales, and Holocaust Representation
?Maria Jesus Martinez-Alfaro
20 Peter Pan Goes to War: the Reimaging and Exploration of J. M. Barrie's Story as a Historically Realistic Graphic Novel
?Stephane Greffrath
Part 3
Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales
21 Mary Poppins: The Subversive Magic Helper
?Renata Marosi
22 Rodents in Children's Literature and Audiovisual Fairy Tales: a Book-to-Film Adaptation Approach
?Rebeca Cristina Lopez Gonzalez
23 Bear Tales: Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children's Literature
?Lizanne Henderson
24 Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale: a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli Productions
?Eduardo Barros-Grela
25 Contemporary Japanese Folktales Represented in Anime: the Paradigmatic Case of InuYasha
?Alba Quintairos-Solino
26 Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales: the Case of Croatian Tales of Long Ago
?Estela Banov
27 The Mark of Fairy Tales in Galician Literature for Children and Young Adults
?Carmen Ferreira Boo
28 Where Else but Reading? Blending Genres in Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime Series
?Miriam Fernandez-Santiago
29 Following the Lead of Fairy Tales: Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion
?Maria Jose Coperias-Aguilar
30 Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme's Postmodern Fairy Tales
?Luisa Maria Gonzalez Rodriguez
Index