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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

Edited by Kate Bernheimer

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Mar 16, 1998 | ISBN 9780385486811

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    About Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

    New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.

    Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations, their craft, and our culture. In poetic narratives, personal histories, and penetrating commentary, the assembled authors bare their soul and challenge received wisdom. Eclectic and wide-ranging, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall is essential reading for anyone who has ever been bewitched by the strange and fanciful realm of fairy tales.

    Contributors include: Alice Adams, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Rosellen Brown, A. S. Byatt, Kathryn Davis, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Deborah Eisenberg, Maria Flook, Patricia Foster, Vivian Gornick, Lucy Grealy, bell hooks, Fanny Howe, Fern Kupfer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carole Maso, Jane Miller, Lydia Millet, Joyce Carol Oates, Connie Porter, Francine Prose, Linda Gray Sexton, Midori Snyder, Fay Weldon, Joy Williams, Terri Windling.

    About Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

    New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.

    Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations, their craft, and our culture. In poetic narratives, personal histories, and penetrating commentary, the assembled authors bare their soul and challenge received wisdom. Eclectic and wide-ranging, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall is essential reading for anyone who has ever been bewitched by the strange and fanciful realm of fairy tales.

    Contributors include: Alice Adams, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Rosellen Brown, A. S. Byatt, Kathryn Davis, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Deborah Eisenberg, Maria Flook, Patricia Foster, Vivian Gornick, Lucy Grealy, bell hooks, Fanny Howe, Fern Kupfer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carole Maso, Jane Miller, Lydia Millet, Joyce Carol Oates, Connie Porter, Francine Prose, Linda Gray Sexton, Midori Snyder, Fay Weldon, Joy Williams, Terri Windling.

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    About Kate Bernheimer

    Kate Bernheimer is the editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, among several other anthologies, and the founder and editor of the literary journal Fairy Tale Review…. More about Kate Bernheimer

    About Kate Bernheimer

    Kate Bernheimer is the editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, among several other anthologies, and the founder and editor of the literary journal Fairy Tale Review…. More about Kate Bernheimer

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 16, 1998 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385486811

    Category: Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Anchor
    Apr 21, 2010 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9780307874528

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    Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Alice Adams
    The Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood in the Coffin House

    Julia Alvarez
    An Autobiography of Scheherazade

    Margaret Atwood
    Of Souls as Birds

    Ann Beattie
    John, Whose Disappearance Was Too Bad

    Rosellen Brown
    It Is You the Fable Is About

    A. S. Byatt
    Ice, Snow, Glass

    Kathryn Davis
    Why I Don’t Like Reading Fairy Tales

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    The Princess in the Palace of Snakes

    Deborah Eisenberg
    In a Trance of Self

    Maria Flook
    The Rope Bridge to Sex

    Patricia Foster
    Little Red Cap

    Vivian Gornick
    Taking a Long Hard Look at "The Princess and the Pea"

    Lucy Grealy
    Girl

    bell hooks
    To Love Justice

    Fanny Howe
    Fairies

    Fern Kupfer
    Trust

    Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Wilderness Within

    Carole Maso
    Exquisite Hour

    Jane Miller
    Midnights

    Lydia Millet
    The Wife Kller

    Joyce Carol Oates
    In Olden Times, When Wishing Was Having: Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales

    Connie Porter
    Rapunzel Across Time and Space

    Francine Prose
    Sleeping Beauty

    Linda Gray Sexton
    Bones and Black Puddings: Revisiting "The Juniper Tree"

    Midori Snyder
    The Monkey Girl

    Fay Weldon
    The Journey to Mr. Fox

    Joy Williams
    Baba Yaga

    Terri Windling
    Transformations

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