Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale

by Jessica Tiffin

Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.

In Marvelous Geometry Jessica Tiffin argues that within twentieth- and twenty-first-century Western literature there exists a diverse body of fairy-tale texts that display a common thread of metafictional self-awareness. The narrative pattern of these texts is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332625
• ISBN13: 9780814332627
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"