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Fairy tales and the fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A.S. Byatt

By Lisa M. Fiander

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang
Year
2004
ISBN
0820472530, 9780820472539
LCC
PR888.F27 F53 2004
Google Books ID
_UOSjfAmr-oC
Open Library ID
OL3288946M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8758692 bytes)
Series
Studies on themes and motifs in literature 70
Pages
216\216
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Литературоведение

Description

The Grimm brothers' fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain's most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales-bestiality, cannibalism, and incest-and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world.

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