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Author:

Sellers, Susan.

Title:

Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction / Susan Sellers.

Publisher:

Palgrave,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

ix, 198 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

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--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Fairy tales--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Feminist fiction--History and criticism.
Feminism in literature.
Women in literature.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780333720158 (pbk.)
0333720156 (pbk.)
9780333720141 (acid-free paper)
0333720148 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46683731
(OCoLC)47063201

LCCN:

2001033108

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)