|aMyth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction /|cSusan Sellers.
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|aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;|aNew York :|bPalgrave,|c2001.
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|aix, 198 p. ;|c22 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.
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|aContext: theories of myth -- Double-voice of laughter: Metamorphosing monsters and rescripting female desire in A.S. Byatt's 'the djinn in the nightingale's eye' and Fay Weldon's the life and loves of a she devil -- Re-creation in other love: myth-breaking and myth-making in Christine Crow's miss x or the wolf woman and Helene Cixous's the book of Promethea -- Becoming gods and umbilical wordbrows: the new hagiography of Michele Roberts -- Unlimited horror: vampires, sex-slaves and paragons of the feminine in Anne rice and Emma Tennant -- Bodies of power: beauty myths in tales by Marina Warner, Emma Donoghue, Sheri Tepper, and Alice Thompson -- New myths or old? Angela Carter's mirrors and mothers.
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|aEnglish fiction|y20th century|xHistory and criticism.
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|aMyth in literature.
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|aWomen and literature|zGreat Britain|xHistory|y20th century.
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|aWomen and literature|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.
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|aAmerican fiction|xWomen authors|xHistory and criticism.
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|aEnglish fiction|xWomen authors|xHistory and criticism.
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|aAmerican fiction|y20th century|xHistory and criticism.
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|aFairy tales|xAdaptations|xHistory and criticism.