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Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic: Subverting Gender and Genre

By Lydia Brugué; Auba Llompart

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2020
ISBN
9789004418998, 9789004418981
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24232912 bytes)
Series
At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries Series
Edition
1
Pages
358\358
Time added
2023-08-30 15:04:03
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Description

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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