Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction [electronic resource] / Susan Sellers

Author:: Sellers, Susan
Published:: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Physical Description:: ix, 198 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators:: NetLibrary, Inc

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Contexts: 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 Hélène Cixous's The book of Promethea -- Becoming gods and umbilical wordbows: the new hagiography of Michèle 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.

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1403919208 (electronic bk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

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