Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture - How We Hate to Love Them

In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of the American secular scripture by analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches.

List of contents

Part I: Setting the Scene
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Story
Chapter 3: What Are Fairy Tales, Anyway?
Part II: Cinderella Transformed in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 4: Cinderella's Subtypes
Chapter 5: Cinderella Variants and Versions
Chapter 6: Cinderella as Shorthand
Part III. Old Wine in New Wine Skins: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Pastiche on Film
Chapter 7: Fairy-Tale Pastiche, a Rising Trend in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 8: Manhattan Meets Andalasia, and Both Are Changed: Overt Fairy-Tale Pastiche in Disney's Enchanted
Chapter 9: Challenging the Patriarchy and Restoring Interpersonal Harmony: Covert Pastiche in Disney-Pixar's Brave
Conclusion

About the author

Kate Koppy is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia.

Summary

In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of the American secular scripture by analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Christine Koppy, Kate Christine Moore Koppy
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793612779
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-277-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Literature: history & criticism