Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings

Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meaningsedited by Anna Kérchy was another under the radar release from earlier this year.

Description from the publisher:

These essays analyze the intersection of fairy tale, fantasy and reality in postmodern artistic texts. The editor underscores the transformation of both the reader-writer relationship and epistemological and ontological considerations by new technologies and emerging subgenres. This book contains 12 color plates and ten black and white photographs.

Reviews

“…the volume includes essays that present exploratory discussions of modern-day reinventions of the fairy tale and fantasy from a variety of perspectives that draw on emergent critical discourses…” - Prof. Dr. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

“The editor’s introduction and organization of the volume exhibit a strong grasp of how important it is to relate generic, technological, political, and narrative dynamics with one another…”-Prof. Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawaii

“…this range of objects and of topics makes the volume genuinely timely, genuinely impressive and genuinely worthwhile.”-Prof. Stephen Benson, University of East Anglia

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

Preface by Anna Kérchy

SECTION 1: NEW MEDIA LITERACY
Hyperread, New Literacy, E-text
Cyber-Salons, Participatory Culture
Production Design
Critical Dance Studies

SECTION 2: EMERGING GENRES
Urban Fantasy
Steampunk
Forensic Crime Fantasy
Intermedial Text/Image. Graphic Narrative
Guro-Kawaii (Grotesque-Cute) Manga/Art

SECTION 3: REWRITING MYTH
The Interaction of Literature and Criticism. Feminist Imagination, Challenging the Canon
Anti-Fairy Tale, Revisiting Blue Beard
Critical Musicology. Revisiting Beauty and the Beast
Cult Fairy-Tale Romance. Revisiting the Animal-Groom Tale
Metamorphic Pornographic Fantasy. Revisiting Shakespeare

SECTION 4: RE-IMAGINING THE BODY
Body-Theatrical Performance
Feminist Body-Studies
Cyborg Body
Re-fashioning Embodiments

SECTION 5: CREATING FICTIONAL REALITIES
Ludic Simulations in the Virtual Reality of Computer Games
Virtual FairyLands in Trans/Post-humanist Science Fiction
Inventing a Fictitious Fairy Tale
Between Psychopathology and Fantasy

SECTION 6: NARRATOLOGICAL NOVELTIES
Transmedial Narratology, Representations of Race and Gender
Neo-Surrealism, Feminist Stylistics
Affective Narratology and the Emotional Politics of Reading
Corporeal Narratology