Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic: Subverting Gender and Genre (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 129)

Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences. We are currently witnessing a resurgence of fairy tales and fairy-tale characters and motifs in art and popular culture, as well as an increasing and renewed interest in reinventing and subverting these narratives to adapt them to the expectations and needs of the contemporary public. The collected essays also observe how the influence of academic disciplines like Gender Studies and current literary and cinematic trends play an important part in the revision of fairy-tale plots, characters and themes.

Lydia Brugué, Ph.D. (2013), Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, is Professor of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include fairy tales, Film Studies and Translation Studies.
Auba Llompart, Ph.D. (2014), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is Professor of English Language and Culture at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include English literature, children’s literature and fairy tales, Gothic Studies and Gender Studies.