The postmodern fairy tale : folkloric intertexts in contemporary fiction / Kevin Paul Smith.
The postmodern fairy tale : folkloric intertexts in contemporary fiction / Kevin Paul Smith.
The postmodern fairy tale : folkloric intertexts in contemporary fiction / Kevin Paul Smith.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N823.91409/32
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English
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vi, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The eight elements of intertextual use of fairytales -- 2. Architextual/chronotopic intertextuality and magic realism in Kate Atkinson's Human croquet -- 3. Metafictive intertextuality : defining the 'storyteller' chronotope -- 4. Battling the nightmare of myth, Terry Pratchett's fairytale invers...
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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England
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2007.
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"This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the most unexpected places. It also examines the way that telling an autobiography as a fairy tale begins to affect the content of the story. Magical meaning is discovered in the strange turns of fate, and actual events take on the flavour of 'magic realism'. From Salman Rushdie, an...
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The postmodern fairy tale : folkloric intertexts in contemporary fiction / Kevin Paul Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N823.91409/32
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74VMQPgD75PX
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9780230500488 (hbk.) :
023050048X (hbk.) :
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823.9140915
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991000367719702626
