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)