Kevin Paul Smith, The Postmodern Fairy Tale. Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction

Kevin Paul SMITH, The Postmodern Fairy Tale. Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 240 p.
ISBN 9780230500488


RÉSUMÉ

Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why do shampoo advertisements base themselves on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that in this age where there are stories surrounding us in every media imaginable, 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'.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

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


BIOGRAPHIE

Kevin Paul Smith is an independent scholar.