Fairy Tale

ISBN-13: 9780415616065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 182 str.

Andrew Teverson

Opis

This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It:

• explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genre
• assesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy tale
• provides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary form
• engages with the major ideological controversies that have shaped critical and creative approaches to fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
• demonstrates that the fairy tale is a highly metamorphic genre that has flourished in diverse media, including oral tradition, literature, film, and the visual arts.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Definitions  2. The Establishment of a Literary Genre  3. Critical Methodologies  4. Fairy Tales and Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries  5. An Adaptable Genre: Multi-Media Fairy Tale  Conclusion

O autorze

Andrew Teverson is Director of Studies for English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University London. He is author of Salman Rushdie (2007)