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 greatestselling DVDs of all time? Why do shampoo advertisements base themselveson Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that in this age where there are storiessurrounding us in every media imaginable, that the same simple storieskeep being told? This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keeppopping up in the most unexpected places and why the best storytellersbegin their tales with 'once upon a time'.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Eight Elementsof Intertextual Use of Fairy Tales * Architextual/ ChronotopicIntertextuality 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.