Midwest Book Review
Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender And Narrative Strategies seeks to understand the fairy tale, not as children's literature, but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four case studies: Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, and Bluebeard. Postmodern Fairy Tales traces the oral sources of each tale, offers a provocative interpretation of contemporary literary versions, and explores the ways the tales are transformed in film, television, and musicals. Postmodern Fairy Tales is an impressive work of innovative and insightful scholarship in the field of myth, fairytale, folklore, and literature.


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This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to analyze their varying representations of women.

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This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to analyze their varying representations of women.

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