POSTMODERN REINTERPRETATIONS
OF FAIRY TALES
How Applying New Methods
Generates New Meanings
Edited by
Anna Kerchy
With a Foreword by
Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere
The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston*Queenston* Lampeter
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere
Preface
i
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SECTION 1: NEW MEDIA LITERACY
Hyperread, New Literacy, E-text
1
Hyperread. Repurposing Children's Literature and Digital
Storytelling
Dorothy G. Clark
Cyber-Salons, Participatory Culture
17
Salon des Fees. Cyber Salon: Re-Coding the Commodified Fairy
Tale
Helen Pilinovsky
Production Design
33
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
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
King Rat to Coraline: Faerie and Fairy Tale in British Urban Fantasy
Adam Zolkover
Steampunk
83
Steampunk: Technofantasies in aNeo-Victorian Retrofuture
Mike Perschon
Forensic Crime Fantasy
107
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
The Intermedial/Inter-Authorial Dynamics of Text/Image in Rikki
Ducornet's The One Marvellous Thing decorated by T.Motley
Michelle Ryan-Sautour
Guro-Kawaii (Grotesque-Cute) Manga/Art
145
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
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
Anti-Fairy Tale and the Demythologising Business in Jane
Campion's The Piano
David Calvin
Critical Musicology. Revisiting Beauty and the Beast
202
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
Bella and her Beastly Choices: Exploring the Fairy Tale in the
Twilight Phenomenon
Natalie Robinson
Metamorphic Pornographic Fantasy. Revisiting Shakespeare 237
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
Postmodern Fantasies of Corporeality: Identity and Visual Agency in
Postmodern Anatomy Theatres
Attila Kiss
Feminist Body-Studies
276
Monstrous Skins and Hybrid Identities in Catherynne M. Valente's
The Orphan's Tales
Jeana Jorgensen
Cyborg Body
296
Cyborg Children, Illuminous Rabbits, Snowman: Margaret Atwood's
Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood as Speculative Fiction
Katanna Labudova
Re-fashioning Embodiments
316
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
Adventure Games in the Faerian Machine: Fairy Tales in Ludic
Environments
Peter Kristof Makai
Virtual FairyLands in Trans/Post-humanist Science Fiction 352
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
Fictitious Fairy-Stories. Writing a Fictitious Character in Lord of the
Rings
Gergely Nagy
Between Psychopathology and Fantasy
383
"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
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
(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
Dancing in Worn Slippers: Narration, Affect and Subversion in
Jeanette Winterson's "Story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses"
Caroline Webb
Corporeal Narratology
460
A Corpusemiotical Interpretation of a Postmodern Alice Tale.
Embodied Nonsense in Terry Gilliam's Tideland
Anna Kerchy
List of Contributors
481
Index
489