The postmodern fairytale [electronic resource] : folkloric intertexts in contemporary fiction / Kevin Paul Smith.
Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why do shampoo advertisements base themselves on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that in this age where there are stories surrounding us in every media imaginable, that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to explain why f...
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| Other title: | Postmodern fairy tale. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.