Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt

The Grimm brothers' fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain's most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales - bestiality, cannibalism, and incest - and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world.

About the author

The Author: Lisa M. Fiander is Lecturer in English at the University of Alberta, where she received her Ph.D. in contemporary British fiction. Her work on fairy tales has appeared in the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and she has presented papers on the topic at conferences around the globe.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa M. Fiander
• Assisted by: Horst Daemmrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2004
• EAN: 9780820472539
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-7253-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 15 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics