Uncanny Fairy Tales : Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror Hardback
by Francesca Arnavas
Part of the Among the Victorians and Modernists series
Hardback
Description
There are fairy tales that surprise, destabilise, or even shock us: these are uncanny fairy tales that manipulate familiar stories in creative and bewildering ways in order to express new meanings.
This work analyses these tales, basing its approach on a reformulation of Freud’s concept of the uncanny.
Through a cognitive outlook the employed theoretical framework provides new perspectives on the study of experimental literary fairy tales.
Considering English-language literature, complex and unsettling reinterpretations of the fairy-tale discourse began to appear during the Victorian Age, later resurfacing as a postmodern trend.
This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and explore these tales, and as ways to discover unseen connections between Victorian and postmodern texts.
The new theorisation of the uncanny is linked with three subconcepts: mirror, hybridity, and wonder, which function as tools to describe and investigate the cognitive and emotional entanglements characterising enigmatic and disorienting fairy tales.
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:234 pages, 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032516790
Information
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:234 pages, 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032516790
