Fairy Tale

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Teverson is Director of Studies for English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University London. He is author of Salman Rushdie (2007) Klappentext This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy taleprovides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary formengages with the major ideological controversies that have shaped critical and creative approaches to fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesdemonstrates that the fairy tale is a highly metamorphic genre that has flourished in diverse media, including oral tradition, literature, film, and the visual arts. Zusammenfassung This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Definitions 2. The Establishment of a Literary Genre 3. Critical Methodologies 4. Fairy Tales and Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 5. An Adaptable Genre: Multi-Media Fairy Tale Conclusion

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Teverson, Andrew (Kingston University Teverson, Teverson Andrew
• Con la collaborazione di: John Drakakis (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.05.2013
• EAN: 9780415616065
• ISBN: 978-0-415-61606-5
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: The New Critical Idiom
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary theory, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)