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Postmodern Retellings 102: Deconstruction in Fairy Tales

Authors deconstruct traditional fairy tales by dismantling binary oppositions of Western culture.

Angela Carter's "The Werewolf" and the Impact of Story Retold

Fairy tales are evergreen stories, but their impact has become that much greater with contemporary retellings.

Postmodern Retellings 101: Olga Broumas’s Cinderella

Olgas Broumas counter-writes the original Cinderella tale to subvert the happy ending.

Postmodern Retellings 101: Angela Carter’s The Tiger’s Bride

The present article analyses Angela Carter’s The Tiger’s Bride, which is a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

Postmodern Retellings 101: Robert Coover’s The Dead Queen

Robert Coover’s The Dead Queen is a modern retelling of the tale of Snow White with a gender perspective.

Postmodern Retellings 101: Postmodernist Perspectives and Subversion

In this article, characteristics of postmodern retellings are discussed to define in which ways they differ from the original tale.