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Description:Although readers and film-goers 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. No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect social, political, and cultural truths. Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers. They feature a variety of perspectives, including postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer theory, and gender studies. Along with the classic fairy tales, fiction from writers like Neil Gaiman and Gregory Maguire is covered.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings. To get started finding Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 270

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: McFarland

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0786453966

Description: Although readers and film-goers 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. No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect social, political, and cultural truths. Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers. They feature a variety of perspectives, including postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer theory, and gender studies. Along with the classic fairy tales, fiction from writers like Neil Gaiman and Gregory Maguire is covered.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings. To get started finding Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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