This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to

Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focus

Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales : How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings

An intertextual approach to fairy-tale criticism and fairy-tale retellings -- Marcia K. Lieberman's "Some day my prince will come"--Bruno Bettelheim's The uses