Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale /
edited by Stephen Benson.
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008.
- 209 p. ; 23 cm.
- Series in fairy-tale studies .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: fiction and the contemporaneity of the fairy tale / Stephen Benson -- Penetrating to the heart of The bloody chamber : Angela Carter and the fairy tale / Sarah Gamble -- Migrant fictions : Salman Rushdie and the fairy tale / Andrew Teverson -- "Ancient forms" : myth, fairy tale, and narrative in A.S. Byatt's fiction / Elizabeth Wanning Harries -- Margaret Atwood and the fairy tale : postmodern revisioning in recent texts / Sharon R. Wilson -- The late fairy tales of Robert Coover / Stephen Benson -- Theorizing fairy-tale fiction, reading Jeanette Winterson / Merja Makinen -- Extrapolating from Nalo Hopkinson's Skin folk : reflections on transformation and recent English-language fairy-tale fiction by women / Cristina Bacchilega.
English fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century Literature and folklore--History--20th century. Fairy tales in literature. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intertextuality. Literary form--History--20th century.