Reconstruction of Fairytale Canon in A. S. Byatt's Short-Genre Fiction

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: In A. Bayette's novels, traditional fairytale discourse is the source of many borrowings, defining the plot, composition, system of archetypical images and stylistics of its texts. The archetype as an invariant of a fairytale pl...