Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction / Susan Sellers
| Author(s): | Sellers, Susan |
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| Subjects: | English fiction--20th century--History and criticism Myth in literature Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century Women and literature--United States--History--20th century American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism American fiction--20th century--History and criticism Fairy tales--Adaptations--History and criticism Feminist fiction--History and criticism Feminism in literature Women in literature |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001 |
| LC Classification: | P, PR |
| Table of Contents: | Preface Acknowledgements 1. Contexts: Theories of Myth 1 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 35 3. Re-Creation in Other Love: Myth-Breaking and Myth-Making in Christine Crow's Miss X or the Wolf Woman and Helene Cixous's The Book of Promethea 51 4. Becoming Gods and Umbilical Wordbows: The New Hagiography of Michele Roberts 63 5. Unlimited Horror: Vampires, Sex-Slaves and Paragons of the Feminine in Anne Rice and Emma Tennant 79 6. Bodies of Power: Beauty Myths in Tales by Marina Warner, Emma Donoghue, Sheri Tepper and Alice Thompson 96 7. New Myths or Old? Angela Carter's Mirrors and Mothers 107 Conclusion 128 Notes 140 Bibliography 183 Index 193 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2001033108 ISBN: 0333720148 (acid-free paper) ISBN: 0333720156 (pbk.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index Contents: Context: theories of myth -- 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 -- Re-creation in other love: myth-breaking and myth-making in Christine Crow's miss x or the wolf woman and Helene Cixous's the book of Promethea -- Becoming gods and umbilical wordbrows: the new hagiography of Michele Roberts -- Unlimited horror: vampires, sex-slaves and paragons of the feminine in Anne rice and Emma Tennant -- Bodies of power: beauty myths in tales by Marina Warner, Emma Donoghue, Sheri Tepper, and Alice Thompson -- New myths or old? Angela Carter's mirrors and mothers |
| Physical Description: | ix, 198 p. ; 22 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 46683731 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0333720148 0333720156 |