Vanessa Joosen
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Joosen broadens the traditional concept of intertextuality to include academic texts. With three key texts from the 1970s at the centre of her discussion, she connects the critical views expressed in these feminist and psychoanalytic interpretations with fictional fairy-tale retellings and illustrations.
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"Editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe, and North and Latin America to investigate the international reception of the Grimms' tales. The essays in this volume offer insights into the social and literary role of the tales in a number of countries and languages, finding aspects that are internationally constant as well as locally particular"--Amazon.com.