
By Susan Redington Bobby,Kate Bernheimer
No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy stories of the overdue twentieth and early twenty first centuries replicate social, political and cultural truths. 16 essays ponder fairy stories recreated via brief tales, novels, poetry, and the image novel from either best-selling and lesser-known writers, utilising a number of views, together with postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer conception and gender reviews. besides the vintage fairy stories, fiction from writers comparable to Neil Gaiman (Stardust) and Gregory Macquire (Wicked) is covered.
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