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Author Bacchilega, Cristina, 1955- author.

Title Postmodern fairy tales : gender and narrative strategies / Cristina Bacchilega
Published Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) : illustrations
Contents Performing wonders: postmodern revisions of fairy tales -- The framing of "Snow White": narrative and gender (re)production -- Not re(a)d once and for all: "Little Red Riding Hood"'s voice in performance -- In the eye of the beholder: "Where is Beast?" -- "Be bold, be bold, but not too bold": double agents and Bluebeard's plot -- Epilogue. Peopling the bloody chambers: "Once upon many times" and "Once upon one time."
Summary "This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to analyze their varying representations of women."--Jacket
Analysis Fairy tales History and criticism
Sex role Folklore
Symbolism in fairy tales
Women Folklore
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index
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Subject Fairy tales -- History and criticism
Symbolism in fairy tales.
Sex role -- Folklore
Women -- Folklore
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature.
Fairy tales
Sex role
Symbolism in fairy tales
Women
Märchen
Erzähltechnik
Sprookjes.
Postmodernisme.
Vrouwen.
Symbolisme.
Contes de fées -- Histoire et critique.
Symbolisme dans les contes de fées.
Rôle selon le sexe -- Folklore.
Femmes -- Folklore.
Mèarchen.
Erzèahltechnik.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96049318
ISBN 9780812200638
0812200632
1283211106
9781283211109
9786613211101
6613211109