Uncanny Fairy Tales Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and explore these tales, and as ways to discover unseen connections between Victorian and postmodern texts.

About the author

Francesca Arnavas is a cognitive narratologist and a specialist in Victorian and fantasy literature. She received her PhD in English and Related Literature from the University of York, UK, in 2018. She now works as a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia, within the research group Narrative, Culture, and Cognition. She has researched and published on Victorian literature (especially Lewis Carroll), cognitive narratology, and literary Victorian and postmodern fairy tales. Her first monograph was published by De Gruyter (2021), within the Narratologia series.

Product details

• Authors: Francesca Arnavas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 27.10.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781032516806
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3251680-6
• Pages: 234
• Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Subjects: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Fairy tales, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Victorian literature studies, cognitive literary analysis, postmodern narrative techniques, hybrid genre exploration, narrative destabilization, cognitive approaches to experimental fairy tales