false 5216122 1 This title explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film. In "Marvelous Geometry", Jessica Tiffin argues that within twentieth- and twenty-first-century Western literature there exists a diverse body of fairy-tale texts that display a common thread of metafictional self-awareness. The narrative pattern of these texts is self-conscious, overtly structured, variously fantastical, and, Tiffin argues, easily recognized and interpreted by modern audiences. In this broadly comparative study she explores contemporary fairy-tale fictions found in modern literature and live-action and animated film and television to explore fairy tale's ability to endlessly reinvent itself and the cultural implications of its continued relevance. Tiffin's skilled analysis draws on the critical fields of postmodernism, narratological analysis, stucturalism, feminism, and performativity, without relying solely on any one perspective. She considers important fairy-tale retellings such as the feminist revisions of Angela Carter, the postmodern narratives of A. S. Byatt, as well as fairy tales written for children by James Thurber. She also investigates both popular and high-art films, contrasting Cocteau and Neil Jordan to Hollywood romances and Disney, and analyzes the differences between animated features and live-action productions. Finally, Tiffin uses a case study of the recent successful Shrek films to situate the fairy tale in the twenty-first century as an endlessly adaptable folk narrative that self-consciously and affectionately reflects generic structures and significant cultural assumptions. "Marvelous Geometry" covers a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar primary texts from a novel and fruitful perspective. Tiffin's focus on the metafictional nature of the fairy tale turns readers' attention to the genre's narrative structure and aesthetic qualities without ever losing sight of the fairy tale's sociocultural impact as powerful marvelous narrative. Scholars of literary and fairy-tale studies will enjoy Tiffin's expansive analysis. 5283362 15 4 2009 Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale total:1|3:1| 1 3 4 1 5216122 0814332625 9780814332627 1 1 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216122.Marvelous_Geometry_Narrative_and_Metafiction_in_Modern_Fairy_Tale 3 0 false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 05:36:18 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 06:34:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5216122 0814332625 9780814332627 1 1 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216122.Marvelous_Geometry_Narrative_and_Metafiction_in_Modern_Fairy_Tale 0 0 false Tue Sep 08 13:44:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 13:44:54 -0700 2009 5216122 0814332625 9780814332627 1 1 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216122.Marvelous_Geometry_Narrative_and_Metafiction_in_Modern_Fairy_Tale 0 0 false Sat Feb 14 12:10:30 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 12:10:30 -0800 2009 5216122 0814332625 9780814332627 1 1 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216122.Marvelous_Geometry_Narrative_and_Metafiction_in_Modern_Fairy_Tale 0 0 false Thu Jan 08 06:25:02 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:25:03 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5216122