Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction.
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Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction.
Author:
Sellers, Susan.
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Contexts: Theories of Myth -- 2 The Double-Voice of Laughter: Metamorphosing Monsters and Rescripting Female Desire in A. S. Byatt's 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye' and Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She Devil -- 3 Re-Creation in Other Love Myth-Breaking and Myth-Making in Christine Crow's Miss X or the Wolf Woman and Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea -- 4 Becoming Gods and Umbilical Wordbows The New Hagiography of Michèle Roberts -- 5 Unlimited Horror Vampires, Sex-Slaves and Paragons of the Feminine in Anne Rice and Emma Tennant -- 6 Bodies of Power Beauty Myths in Tales by Marina Warner, Emma Donoghue, Sheri Tepper and Alice Thompson -- 7 New Myths or Old? Angela Carter's Mirrors and Mothers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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