Ice, Glass, Snow: Fairy Tale as Art and Metafiction in the Writing of A. S. Byatt

From: Marvels & Tales | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Everybody knows it's fiction, but then everybody knows the whole thing is fiction.

A. S. Byatt, qtd. in Wachtel 88

The award of the Booker Prize to A. S. Byatt's novel Possession: A Romance in 1990 cemented Byatt's position as a literary figure and sparked the steady stream of academic attention that has greeted both Possession itself and Byatt's other works. Among her works, fairy tale and folklore form a recurring theme, both explicitly and implicitly within larger works. Her interest in fairy-tale and folk forms is, however, both subsidiary to and emblematic of her far larger interest in ...

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