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Uncanny Fairy Tales

Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvFrancesca Arnavas

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There are fairy tales that surprise, destabilise, or even shock us: these are uncanny fairy tales that manipulate familiar stories in creative and bewildering ways in order to express new meanings. This work analyses these tales, basing its approach on a reformulation of Freud’s concept of the uncanny. Through a cognitive outlook the employed theoretical framework provides new perspectives on the study of experimental literary fairy tales. Considering English-language literature, complex and unsettling reinterpretations of the fairy-tale discourse began to appear during the Victorian Age, later resurfacing as a postmodern trend. This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and explore these tales, and as ways to discover unseen connections between Victorian and postmodern texts. The new theorisation of the uncanny is linked with three subconcepts: mirror, hybridity, and wonder, which function as tools to describe and investigate the cognitive and emotional entanglements characterising enigmatic and disorienting fairy tales.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-26
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmong the Victorians and Modernists
Antal sidor234
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032516806

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Francesca Arnavas is a cognitive narratologist and a specialist in Victorian and fantasy literature. She received her PhD in English and Related Literature from the University of York, UK, in 2018. She now works as a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia, within the research group Narrative, Culture, and Cognition. She has researched and published on Victorian literature (especially Lewis Carroll), cognitive narratology, and literary Victorian and postmodern fairy tales. Her first monograph was published by De Gruyter (2021), within the Narratologia series.

IntroductionChapter 1The Shell in the Woods: Questioning the “Unnatural” through Uncanny Fairy Tales’ Mirrors, Wonder, and Hybridity1.1 Theoretical Overview: The Unnatural Vs the Uncanny1.2 Uncanny Wonderlands1.3 “All mirrors are magic mirrors”1.4 Hybrid Characters, Genre, Language1.5 Angela Carter’s ShellChapter 2Halls of Mirrors: Uncanny Glassworlds in the Castles of the Mind2.1 Si se non noverit: The Danger in the Mirror2.2 “The mirror has lifted it out of the region of fact into the realm of art”: Fire and Ice and Mirrors’ Paradoxical Potential2.3 Metamorphic Cinderellas: Glass and the GrotesqueChapter 3Fairy Brides, Floating Princesses, Jabberwocks: Hybrid Uncanniness and Fairyland Pastiches3.1 Scientific Folktales, Magic Realities, Comedic Sexual Tragedies: Uncanny Fairy Tales and Their Hybrid Genres3.2 Fairy Brides, Mermaids, Beastly Princes: Hybrid Characters3.3 “ ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves /Did gyre and gimble in the wabe”: Hybrid Expression and Its Uncanny EffectsChapter 4Uncanny Wonders: Puzzling Lands, Dragons, and Dreams4.1 Wonderlands: Imaginary Landscapes Escaping Fixed Interpretations4.2 “I will try to be wonderful; but I cannot promise first-rate wonders”: Troubling and Subversive Wonders4.3 “That gentle light of evening that is Wonder’s native haunt”: Wonder, Dreams, and ChildhoodConclusion