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Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture

How We Hate to Love Them
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 2021

Summary

In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy argues that the increasing popularity and presence of fairy tales within American culture is both indicative of and contributing to this shift. By analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches, Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of American secular scripture, a corpus of shared stories that work to maintain a sense of community among diverse audiences in the United States, as much as biblical scripture and associated texts used to.

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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1277-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1278-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
164
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. A Note about Citation Practice No access
    1. Chapter 1 Introduction No access
    2. Chapter 2 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Story No access
    3. Chapter 3 What Are Fairy Tales, Anyway? No access
    1. Chapter 4 Cinderella’s Subtypes No access
    2. Chapter 5 Cinderella Variants and Versions No access
    3. Chapter 6 Cinderella as Shorthand No access
    1. Chapter 7 Fairy-Tale Pastiche, a Rising Trend in the Twenty-First Century No access
    2. Chapter 8 Manhattan Meets Andalasia, and Both Are Changed No access
    3. Chapter 9 Challenging the Patriarchy and Restoring Interpersonal Harmony No access
  1. Conclusion No access Pages 139 - 142
  2. Bibliography No access Pages 143 - 156
  3. Index No access Pages 157 - 162
  4. About the Author No access Pages 163 - 164

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