Literary Criticism and Theory

Collects more than fifty versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story from a wide range of countries and cultures.

Investigates the religious diversity in early modern English literature and culture in relation to a dominant English Protestant national identity.

Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work The Russian Folktale.

Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.

The first systematic approach to the parallels between fairy-tale retellings and fairy-tale theory.

A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.

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

Considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.

By considering the screenplay as a literary object worthy of critical inquiry, this volume breaks new ground in film studies.