Kate Christine Moore Koppy

Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture

How We Hate to Love Them

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781793612779
• ISBN-10: 1793612773
• Artikelnr.: 60595735

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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