Into the Woods of Wicked Wonderland : Musicals Revise Fairy Tales


Raffaele. Cutolo
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
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Heidelberg : : Universitätsverlag Winter, , 2014.
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1 online resource (226 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction; 1 (Re-)Considerations on the Fairy Tale; 1.1 The Postmodern Revision of the Fairy Tale; 1.2 The Fairy Tale and Cultural Evolution; 1.2.1 A phylogenetic perspective; 1.2.2 The rhizomatic fairy tale; 1.3 Evolutions of the Fairy Tale; 1.3.1 Literary rewritings and revisions; 1.3.2 Transposition; 1.4 The disneyfied fairy tale; 2 Musical Theatre as Narrative Performance; 2.1 Storytelling, cultural performance, and the musical; 2.2 Approaching performances: semiotic and phenomenological approach; 2.3 The integrated musical; 2.3.1 Multimodal coherence. - 3 Intertextual Exchanges in the Woods3.1 Fairy tales and musical theatre; 3.2 'Intertextuality': terminology's vagueness; 3.3 Defining fairy-tale merging; 3.4 Fairy-tale merging in Into the Woods; 3.4.1 A fairy tale about fairy tales; 3.4.2 Interconnections in the unified fairy tale kingdom; 3.5 "Into the woods, then out of the woods, and home before dark; 3.6 The sexual Self: "I Know Things Now; 3.7 Never mind the Witch's story; 4 Intermodal Exchanges in the Land of Oz; 4.1 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; 4.2 Maguire's Wicked: de-constructing the Wicked Witch of the West. - 4.3 The rewriting of the rewriting: Wicked the musical4.3.1 Weaving the story; 4.3.2 Glinda the Good; 4.4 The reconstruction of the witch; 5 Interpersonal Exchanges in Wonderland; 5.1 Lewis Carroll and the Victorian fairy tale; 5.2 The Alice books; 5.3 The Alice meme; 5.3.1 From Carroll to Burton, via Disney; 5.4 Wonderland: A New Alice; 5.5 Staring at the looking-glass; References. - This work explores the dynamics of the metamorphosis that the classical fairy tales have undergone throughout the centuries. Such analysis is conducted from a literary and from a memetic point of view, through an investigation that aims at outlining the role of the fairy tale within the relationship between man's urge for self-narration and the performance of such urge. It specifically focusses on the evolutionary process that links the Grimms' collection, Carroll's Alice books, Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', and Maguire's 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' to t
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Baum, L. Frank , 1856-1919 : ˜Theœ wonderful wizard of Oz
Carroll, Lewis , 1832-1898 : Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Maguire, Gregory , 1954- : Wicked
Schwartz, Stephen , 1948- : Wicked
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