{"product_id":"contemporary-fairy-tale-magic-subverting-gender-and-genre-9789004418981","title":"Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic: Subverting Gender and Genre","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210790003031,"sku":"9789004418981","price":89.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-fairy-tale-magic-subverting-gender-and-genre-9789004418981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}