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Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women''s Fiction. (Reviews).(Book Review)-

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-APR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 917 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women''s Fiction. (Reviews).(Book Review)-(book review)

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Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction. By Susan Sellers. Basingstoke and New York: Pal grave, 2001. ix + l98 pp.

This is an ambitious book. Prof. Sellers has attempted to survey the history of research on myth and on fairy tales, both old and new and to discuss recent "rewritings" by women in a slim 139 pages of text. She is conscious that she cannot possibly look in detail at all such rewritings. But it is less clear that she realizes how sketchy and how arbitrary her discussions of theories of myth or current research on fairy tales really are. Her claim that myth and fairy tale are "currently synonymous" (16) seems misleading and over-simplified. And the first two pages of the first chapter consist primarily of one-sentence summaries of various theories of myth,...

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