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Author Fraser, Lucy, author.

Title The pleasures of metamorphosis : Japanese and English fairy tale transformations of "The little mermaid" / Lucy Fraser
Published Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Series in fairy-tale studies
Series in fairy-tale studies.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; 1. Fairy Tale Transformations in Japanese and English; 2. Children's Pleasures in Animated Film Adaptations; 3. Fairy Tale Architextuality and the Prince's Pleasures; 4. Mermaids Repeated, Inverted, and Reversed in Women's Fairy Tale Revisions; 5. Girls Reading and Retelling "The Little Mermaid"; 6. Beyond Happily Ever After in Women's Post-Fairy Tale Transformations; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
Summary Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2018)
Subject Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Lille havfrue -- Adaptations
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Lille havfrue -- Translations into Japanese -- History and criticism
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Lille havfrue -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Lille havfrue (Andersen, H. C.) fast
Subject Fairy tales -- History and criticism
Mermaids in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Fairy tales
Mermaids in literature
Pleasure in literature
Women in literature
Genre/Form Adaptations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814342459
0814342450