Susan Sellers

Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary women's rewritings of myth and fairy tale. It examines the nature and role of myth, reviewing existing theories in an attempt to explain the ongoing potency of mythical paradigms in contemporary women's fiction despite the distorted images of gender they frequently present. To illustrate this, the book offers a series of readings of texts by a range of contemporary women writers whose fictions draw on, interrogate, or rework mythic models, including A.S. Byatt, Michele Roberts and Angela Carter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781403919205
• Artikelnr.: 58429819

Autorenporträt

SUSAN SELLERS is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
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 Helene Cixous' The Book of Promethea
Becoming Gods and Umbilical Wordbows: The New Hagiography of Michele
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 S. Tepper and Alice Thompson
New Myths or Old?: Angela Carter's Mirrors and Mothers
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.