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Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences. We are currently witnessing a resurgence of fairy tales and fairy-tale characters and motifs in art and popular culture, as well as an increasing and renewed interest in reinventing and subverting these narratives to adapt them to the expectations and needs of the contemporary public. The collected essays also observe how the influence of academic disciplines like Gender Studies and current literary and cinematic trends play an important part in the revision of fairy-tale plots, characters and themes.

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Author:   Lydia Brugué ,  Auba Llompart
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   129
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9789004418981

ISBN 10:   9004418989
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   23 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales 1 The Cursed Fairy: Broken Spells in Anne Sexton’s Poetry  Francisco José Cortés Vieco 2 Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch  María Amor Barros del Río 3 Fairy-Tale Reflections: Space and Women Host(age)s in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird  Paula Barba Guerrero 4 Un-training the Imagination through Adaptation: an Exploration of Gender through Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle  Jade Lum 5 ‘There Are Always Choices. She Made One’: an Existentialist Approach to Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle  Alba Torres Álvarez 6 The British Empire’s Lost Slipper: Dangerous Irish Cinderellas  Abigail Heiniger 7 Cinderboy and Snow White and the Seven Aliens: Analysis of the Rewriting of Two Classic Tales and Their Translations to Spanish  Ana Pereira Rodríguez and Lourdes Lorenzo García 8 Resistance and Revolt: Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Re-Viewed  Sarah Bonner 9 Empowered Fairy-Tale Heroines Reinvent Happily-Ever-After  Lisa L. Ortiz and Sheila M. Rucki 10 The Strongest of the Fairies: Reworking Gender and Villainy in Walt Disney’s Maleficent  Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart 11 ‘There’s Always a Bright Side’: Poppy, a Positive Role Model in Trolls  Sara Martín Part 2 The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales 12 Far from Beastly: Monstrous Imaginations in Postmodern Fairy-Tale Films  Claudia Schwabe 13 Echoes of Fairy Tales: Fantasy and Everyday Horrors in Guillermo del Toro’s Filmography  Gema Navarro Goig and Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez 14 From Fairy Tales to Slasher Films: Little Red Riding Hood and Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left  Javier Martín-Párraga 15 Howling in the Woods: Angela Carter’s Metamorphosed Little Red Riding Hoods  Nerea Riobó-Pérez 16 Red Shoes, Witches and Creatures of the Forest: Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy as Contemporary Fairy Tale  Miriam Borham-Puyal 17 ‘A Happy Person Never Phantasies’: Repression and Projection of the Self in Monstrous Fairy Tales  Stephanie Weber 18 ‘Children were terrified of her’: Interpreting Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black as a Folktale  Marta Miquel-Baldellou 19 The Broken Voice of History: Fairy Tales, Anti-Tales, and Holocaust Representation  María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro 20 Peter Pan Goes to War: the Reimaging and Exploration of J. M. Barrie’s Story as a Historically Realistic Graphic Novel  Stephané Greffrath Part 3 Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales 21 Mary Poppins: The Subversive Magic Helper  Renáta Marosi 22 Rodents in Children’s Literature and Audiovisual Fairy Tales: a Book-to-Film Adaptation Approach  Rebeca Cristina López González 23 Bear Tales: Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children’s Literature  Lizanne Henderson 24 Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale: a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli Productions  Eduardo Barros-Grela 25 Contemporary Japanese Folktales Represented in Anime: the Paradigmatic Case of InuYasha  Alba Quintairos-Soliño 26 Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales: the Case of Croatian Tales of Long Ago  Estela Banov 27 The Mark of Fairy Tales in Galician Literature for Children and Young Adults  Carmen Ferreira Boo 28 Where Else but Reading? Blending Genres in Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime Series  Miriam Fernández-Santiago 29 Following the Lead of Fairy Tales: Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion  María José Coperías-Aguilar 30 Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme’s Postmodern Fairy Tales  Luisa María González Rodríguez Index

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Lydia Brugué, Ph.D. (2013), Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, is Professor of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include fairy tales, Film Studies and Translation Studies. Auba Llompart, Ph.D. (2014), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is Professor of English Language and Culture at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include English literature, children’s literature and fairy tales, Gothic Studies and Gender Studies.

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