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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 May 2024
- ISBN 9781032516790
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages242 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 Illustrations, black & white; 25 Halftones, black & white 616
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Short description:
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.
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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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Introduction
Chapter 1
The Shell in the Woods: Questioning the ?Unnatural? through Uncanny Fairy Tales? Mirrors, Wonder, and Hybridity
1.1 Theoretical Overview: The Unnatural Vs the Uncanny
1.2 Uncanny Wonderlands
1.3 ?All mirrors are magic mirrors?
1.4 Hybrid Characters, Genre, Language
1.5 Angela Carter?s Shell
Chapter 2
Halls of Mirrors: Uncanny Glassworlds in the Castles of the Mind
2.1 Si se non noverit: The Danger in the Mirror
2.2 ?The mirror has lifted it out of the region of fact into the realm of art?: Fire and Ice and Mirrors? Paradoxical Potential
2.3 Metamorphic Cinderellas: Glass and the Grotesque
Chapter 3
Fairy Brides, Floating Princesses, Jabberwocks: Hybrid Uncanniness and Fairyland Pastiches
3.1 Scientific Folktales, Magic Realities, Comedic Sexual Tragedies: Uncanny Fairy Tales and Their Hybrid Genres
3.2 Fairy Brides, Mermaids, Beastly Princes: Hybrid Characters
3.3 ? ?Twas brillig, and the slithy toves /Did gyre and gimble in the wabe?: Hybrid Expression and Its Uncanny Effects
Chapter 4
Uncanny Wonders: Puzzling Lands, Dragons, and Dreams
4.1 Wonderlands: Imaginary Landscapes Escaping Fixed Interpretations
4.2 ?I will try to be wonderful; but I cannot promise first-rate wonders?: Troubling and Subversive Wonders
4.3 ?That gentle light of evening that is Wonder?s native haunt?: Wonder, Dreams, and Childhood
Conclusion
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