Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction. (2001)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction. (2001)
- Main Title:
- Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction
- Further Information:
- Note: Susan Sellers.
- Other Names:
- Sellers, Susan
- Contents:
- Contexts: theories of myth -- The double-voice of laughter: metamorphosing monsters and rescripting female desire in A.S. Byatt's 'The djinn in the nightingale's eye' and Fay Weldon's The life and loves of a she devil -- Re-creation in other love: myth-breaking and myth-making in Christine Crow's Miss X or the wolf woman and Hélène Cixous's The book of Promethea -- Becoming gods and umbilical wordbows: the new hagiography of Michèle Roberts -- Unlimited horror: vampires, sex-slaves and paragons of the feminine in Anne Rice and Emma Tennant -- Bodies of power: beauty myths in tales by Marina Warner, Emma Donoghue, Sheri Tepper, and Alice Thompson -- New myths or old? Angela Carter's mirrors and mothers.
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Subjects:
- 820.9/15/08209045
Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Myth in literature
Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
Feminist fiction -- History and criticism
Feminism in literature
Women in literature
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Romanschrijvers
Vrouwelijke auteurs
Engels
Amerikaans
Feminisme
Mythen
Sprookjes
American fiction
American fiction -- Women authors
English fiction
English fiction -- Women authors
Fairy tales -- Adaptations
Feminism and literature
Feminism in literature
Feminist fiction
Myth in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Literary studies: from c 1900
English-speaking countries
Criticism, interpretation, etc
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137148797
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