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The Postmodern Fairytale

Autor Kevin Paul Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2007
Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the most unexpected places and why the best storytellers begin their tales with 'once upon a time'.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349352661
ISBN-10: 1349352667
Pagini: 198
Ilustrații: VI, 198 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:2007 edition
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction The Eight Elements of Intertextual use of Fairy Tales Architextual/ Chronotopic Intertextuality and Magic Realism in Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet Metafictive Intertextuality: Defining the 'Storyteller' Chronotope Battling the Nightmare of Myth, Terry Pratchett's Fairy Tale Inversions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Recenzii

'...Smith's enthusiasm for his subject matter is infectiously evident throughout The Postmodern Fairytale , and his arguments are often both amusing and insightful.' - Lucy Carlyle, Times Literary Supplement