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Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings
Author(s): Anna Kerchy (Editor), Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere (Foreword)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
- Publication Date: May 15, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 501 pages
- ISBN-10: 077341519X
- ISBN-13: 9780773415195
Book Description
The essays analyze the intersectino of fairy tale, fantasy and reality in postmodern artistic texts using cutting-edge trends, showing fairy-tale and fantasy to be omnipresent. Also, the authors note the transformation of both the reader-writer relationship and epistemological and ontological considerations by new technologies and emerging subgenres.
Editorial Reviews
Review
…the volume includes essays that present exploratory discussions of modern-day reinventions of the fairy tale and fantasy from a variety of perspectives that draw on emergent critical discourses… (Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere) –chartwig@mellenpress.com
The editor s introduction and organization of the volume exhibit a strong grasp of how important it is to relate generic, technological, political, and narrative dynamics with one another… -Prof. Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawaii –chartwig@mellenpress.com
…this range of objects and of topics makes the volume genuinely timely, genuinely impressive and genuinely worthwhile. -Prof. Stephen Benson, University of East Anglia –chartwig@mellenpress.com
About the Author
Anna Kerchy is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Szeged.
