Mirror, mirror, on the wall : women writers explore their favorite fairy tales

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Mirror, mirror, on the wall : women writers explore their favorite fairy tales

Title remainder

women writers explore their favorite fairy tales

Statement of responsibility

edited by Kate Bernheimer

Contributor

• Bernheimer, Kate

Subject

• American literature -- Women authors
• American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Fairy tales -- History and criticism
• Fairy tales -- United States -- History and criticism
• Fairy tales in literature
• Folklore in literature
• Literature and folklore -- United States
• Women -- Authorship
• Women -- Folklore
• Women -- Psychology
• Women and literature -- United States

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Folklore

Language

eng

Summary

• Fairy tales and their exaggerated characters, from the "evil stepmother" to the "virginal bride," have been a resonant chord throughout Western culture, providing provocative challenges to and mirrors of women's complex sense of themselves - and the expectations of the world around them. In Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-four of our foremost contemporary women writers to discuss, in poetic narratives, evocative personal histories, and penetrating essays, how the fairy tales we all grew up with - from "Cinderella" and "Little Red Riding Hood" to "Bluebeard" and "The Princess and the Pea"--Have affected their emotional lives, their work, and the culture they live in
• For some of the writers, fairy tales were their first formative experience of literature, and several turned to fairy tales in creating their own fiction as adults. Others rebelled utterly at the cultural stereotypes and the roles assigned to women in these tales, and in their essays explore the impact such fairy tales have had on our mores and thinking

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/9287

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS508.W7

LC item number

M57 1998

Literary form

non fiction