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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

by Kate Bernheimer

ISBN: 9780385486811
ISBN10: 0385486812

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

by Kate Bernheimer

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Binding: Paperback
Edition: 1
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publish date: 04/01/1998
ISBN: 9780385486811
ISBN10: 0385486812

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Description: 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, the first collection of its kind, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-five 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 lives, their work, and the culture they live in.

Among the writers included in this collection of original pieces, all of which were written especially for this book, are Alice Adams, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Rosellen Brown, A. S. Byatt, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Lucy Grealy, bell hooks, Joyce Carol Oates, and over a dozen others. 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.

For anyone who has grown up on, fallen in love with, been bewitched (or infuriated) by fairy tales, this book is an enchanting treasure-house of discovery.

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