The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction

by Kevin Paul Smith

Overview

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'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349352661
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

KEVIN PAUL SMITH is an independent scholar.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'...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

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