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Title: Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt

Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt

by Lisa M. Fiander (Author)
©2005 Monographs XXI, 192 Pages
English Studies
Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Volume 70

Summary

The Grimm brothers’ fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain’s most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales – bestiality, cannibalism, and incest – and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world.

Details

Pages
XXI, 192
Year
2005
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820472539
Language
English
Keywords
Murdoch, Iris Märchen (Motiv) Literature folklore Byatt, A. S. Women /literature Drabble, Margaret Fairy tales English fiction /20th century
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2004. XXI, 192 pp.

Biographical notes

Lisa M. Fiander (Author)

The Author: Lisa M. Fiander is Lecturer in English at the University of Alberta, where she received her Ph.D. in contemporary British fiction. Her work on fairy tales has appeared in the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and she has presented papers on the topic at conferences around the globe.

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