This work explores contemporary womens rewritings of myth and fairy tale. Itexamines the nature and role of myth rewriting existing theories in an attemptto exp... » 

This work explores contemporary womens rewritings of myth and fairy tale. Itexamines the nature and role of myth rewriting existing theories in an attemptto explain the ongoing potency of mythical paradigms in contemporary womensfiction despite the distorted images of gender they frequently present. Toillustrate this the book offers a series of readings of texts by a range ofcontemporary women writers whose fictions draw on interrogate or reworkmythic models including A.S. Byatt Michele Roberts and Angela Carter. «