Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings

The essays analyze the intersectino of fairy tale, fantasy and reality in postmodern artistic texts using cutting-edge trends, showing fairy-tale and fantasy to be omnipresent. Also, the authors note the transformation of both the reader-writer relationship and epistemological and ontological considerations by new technologies and emerging subgenres.

"...the volume includes essays that present exploratory discussions of modern-day reinventions of the fairy tale and fantasy from a variety of perspectives that draw on emergent critical discourses..." (Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere)"

List of Illustrations
Foreword		i
Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere
Preface		iv
SECTION 1 NEW MEDIA LITERACY
Hyperread, New Literacy, E-text		1	(16)
Hyperread. Repurposing Children's Literature and Digital Storytelling
Dorothy G. Clark
Cyber-Salons, Participatory Culture		17	(16)
Salon des Fees. Cyber Salon: Re-Coding the Commodified Fairy Tale
Helen Pilinovsky
Production Design		33	(16)
Imagining the Fairy Tale: Production Design in Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves and Ridley Scott's Legend
Andrea Wright
Critical Dance Studies		49	(18)
Having a Ball. Intertextuality and the Performance of Feminine Identity in Maguy Marin's Dance Work, Cinderella
Dorothy Morrissey
SECTION 2 EMERGING GENRES
Urban Fantasy		67	(16)
King Rat to Coraline: Faerie and Fairy Tale in British Urban Fantasy
Adam Zolkover
Steampunk		83	(24)
Steampunk: Technofantasies in a Neo-Victorian Retrofuture
Mike Perschon
Forensic Crime Fantasy		107	(19)
Postmodern Fantasies of Salvation. Interfacing Forensic Crime Fiction and Fairy Tale in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Ingrida Povidisa
Anna Kerchy
Intermedial Text/Image. Graphic Narrative		126	(19)
The Intermedial/Inter-Authorial Dynamics of Text/Image in Rikki Ducornet's The One Marvellous Thing decorated
T. Motley Michelle Ryan-Sautour
Guro-Kawaii (Grotesque-Cute) Manga/Art		145	(18)
Re-envisioning of Fairy Tales in Contemporary Japanese Art. The Post-Feminist Aesthetics of the Grotesque-Cute Guro-Kawaii
Mayako Murai
SECTION 3 REWRITING MYTH
The Interaction of Literature and Criticism. Feminist Imagination, Challenging the Canon		163	(18)
Reclaiming the Lost Code: Feminist Imaginations of the Fairy-Tale Genesis. Olga Broumas's and Nicole Cooley's Revisions
Vanessa Joosen
Anti-Fairy Tale, Revisiting Blue Beard		181	(21)
Anti-Fairy Tale and the Demythologising Business in Jane Campion's The Piano
David Calvin
Critical Musicology. Revisiting Beauty and the Beast		202	(20)
Monsters Beneath the Skin: Angela Carter's "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" as Palimpsest in Snow Patrol's "Absolute Gravity"
Andrea Schutz
Cult Fairy-Tale Romance. Revisiting the Animal-Groom Tale		222	(15)
Bella and her Beastly Choices: Exploring the Fairy Tale in the Twilight Phenomenon
Natalie Robinson
Metamorphic Pornographic Fantasy. Revisiting Shakespeare		237	(14)
From Shakespeare to Carter: Metamorphic Interplay in Angela Carter's Pornographic Fantasy: "Ouverture and Incidental Music for a Midsummer Night's Dream"
Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
SECTION 4 RE-IMAGINING THE BODY
Body-Theatrical Performance		251	(25)
Postmodern Fantasies of Corporeality: Identity and Visual Agency in Postmodern Anatomy Theatres
Attila Kiss
Feminist Body-Studies		276	(20)
Monstrous Skins and Hybrid Identities in Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales
Jeana Jorgensen
Cyborg Body		296	(20)
Cyborg Children, Illuminous Rabbits, Snowman: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood as Speculative Fiction
Katarina Labudova
Re-fashioning Embodiments		316	(14)
Fairy Tale Fashionista: Angela Carter Dresses Wolf-Alice
Susan Small
SECTION 5 CREATING FICTIONAL REALITIES
Ludic Simulations in the Virtual Reality of Computer Games		330	(22)
Adventure Games in the Faerian Machine: Fairy Tales in Ludic Environments
Peter Kristof Makai
Virtual FairyLands in Trans/Post-humanist Science Fiction		352	(15)
"... where we can dream ourselves into being" Science-fictional Fairylands as Transitional Sites to Post- or Trans-humanity
Sarah Herbe
Inventing a Fictitious Fairy Tale		367	(16)
Fictitious Fairy-Stories. Writing a Fictitious Character in Lord of the Rings
Gergely Nagy
Between Psychopathology and Fantasy		383	(20)
"Cover Your Eyes and Count to a Hundred": Freud's Uncanny and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth
Jacqueline Ford
SECTION 6 NARRATOLOGICAL NOVELTIES		403	(78)
Transmedial Narratology, Representations of Race and Gender
A Transmedial Narratological Reading of Racialized and Colonial Sexual Fantasies in the Libertarian Feminist Graphic Novel, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls
Ida Yoshinaga
Neo-Surrealism, Feminist Stylistics		421	(21)
(Re-)reading (Post-)Surrealism Through Dorothea Tanning's Chasm: The Femme-enfant Tears Through the Text
Catriona Fay McAra
Affective Narratology and the Emotional Politics of Reading		442	(18)
Dancing in Worn Slippers: Narration, Affect and Subversion in Jeanette Winterson's "Story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses"
Caroline Webb
Corporeal Narratology		460	(21)
A Corpusemiotical Interpretation of a Postmodern Alice Tale. Embodied Nonsense in Terry Gilliam's Tideland
Anna Kerchy
List of Contributors		481	(8)
Index		489