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.

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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.

PR888.F27 / C66 2008

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