"Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, all of which occupy a unique narrative and creative space"--Provided by publisher.
"Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, all of which occupy a unique narrative and creative space"--Provided by publisher.
Phyllis Frus is an associate professor of English and chair of the English department at Hawai'i Pacific University. Christy Williams is an instructor of English at Hawai'i Pacific University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai'i. She lives in Honolulu.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation 1. Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion's The Piano and Intertextuality PHYLLIS FRUS 2. Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood Conventions DEVIN HARNER 3. Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem MARNI GAUTHIER 4. Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi ANNE M. REEF 5. Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuarón, and the Bildungsroman ANTJE S. ANDERSON 6. A Fuller Statement of the Case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde LAURIE F. LEACH 7. Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The Sandman JULIA ROUND 8. On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and Transformation DEBORAH L. ROSS 9. Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked ALISSA BURGER 10. "Wonderland's become quite strange": From Lewis Carroll's Alice to American McGee's Alice CATHLENA MARTIN 11. Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights Miniseries JENNIFER ORME 12. Mulan: Disney's Hybrid Heroine LAN DONG 13. Mass-Marketing "Beauty": How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney Princess MARC DIPAOLO 14. Four Times Upon a Time: "Snow White" Retold STELLA BOLAKI 15. Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and Aquamarine CHRISTY WILLIAMS About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation 1. Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion's The Piano and Intertextuality PHYLLIS FRUS 2. Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood Conventions DEVIN HARNER 3. Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem MARNI GAUTHIER 4. Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi ANNE M. REEF 5. Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuarón, and the Bildungsroman ANTJE S. ANDERSON 6. A Fuller Statement of the Case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde LAURIE F. LEACH 7. Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The Sandman JULIA ROUND 8. On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and Transformation DEBORAH L. ROSS 9. Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked ALISSA BURGER 10. "Wonderland's become quite strange": From Lewis Carroll's Alice to American McGee's Alice CATHLENA MARTIN 11. Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights Miniseries JENNIFER ORME 12. Mulan: Disney's Hybrid Heroine LAN DONG 13. Mass-Marketing "Beauty": How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney Princess MARC DIPAOLO 14. Four Times Upon a Time: "Snow White" Retold STELLA BOLAKI 15. Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and Aquamarine CHRISTY WILLIAMS About the Contributors Index
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