This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to

Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.

Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale f

An intertextual approach to fairy-tale criticism and fairy-tale retellings -- Marcia K. Lieberman's "Some day my prince will come"--Bruno Bettelheim's The uses

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focus