Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt
©2004
Monographs
XXII,
194 Pages
Series:
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Volume 70
Summary
The Grimm brothers’ fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain’s most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales – bestiality, cannibalism, and incest – and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world.
Details
- Pages
- XXII, 194
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820472539
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Murdoch, Iris Märchen (Motiv) Literature folklore Byatt, A. S. Women /literature Drabble, Margaret Fairy tales English fiction /20th century
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2004. XXII, 194 pp.