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• W597947985 abstract "The Fairies Return: Or, New for Old. Compiled by Peter Davies. Edited and with an Introduction by Maria Tatar. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 372 pp.It is no secret that literary, modernized retellings of fairy tales have been extremely popular for a long while. A significant part of the appeal of the largely unspecific fairy-tale form is its ability to transform itself and inspire retellings set anywhere at any time. Retelling these stories is not at all a new practice, however, as this latest entry into Jack Zipes's Oddly Modem Fairy Tales series clearly shows. The question of how one can breathe new life into forms considered archaic, dated, passe, old-fashioned, or, worse yet, obsolete (1) has attracted writers of all kinds over the years and was certainly the question put to several well-known British writers of the 1930s by this volume's compiler, Peter Davies.The stories contained The Fairies Return were written and are set the early twentieth century, a fact that results a delightfully different fairytale experience for the contemporary reader. Even those well versed literary fairy-tale retellings will find something new and enchanting this volume. A great deal of the charm of these tales comes from the fact that they are firmly rooted their time, featuring 1930s slang, gramophones, stockbrokers, and pleasure cruises. It is easy to imagine them played out on screen black and white.The tales' emphasis on their particular time period results many of them having a strongly satiric tone. The stories reflect the looming threat of World War II, the potential pitfalls of social ambition, the changing roles of women, and corruption the workplace. They also, however, draw on the period's lighthearted determination to have fun. Maria Tatar notes her introduction that in the international thicket of characters and plots, [these British writers] found plenty of material for fashioning stories that they could make their own-and many cases had already been made their own-with the local colors of social and political satire (4-5). These only subtly veiled references reveal to the reader, more than any of the other largely surface details mentioned earlier, unique and unexpected insights into the mind-set of people Britain during the time between the two world wars. The fairy tale is the perfect mode with which to do such commentary but, as Tatar points out, modernizing the fairy tale and equipping it with a critical edge can also result a loss of its traditional wonder and wild magic, something that a few of the tales included here do indeed suffer from (7). Take, for example, Eric Linklater's story, the Sailor: His Eighth and Last Voyage. Here, Sinbad becomes a cruise director, and the creatures and places of his marvelous, horrifying, and magical adventure are transformed into quirky tourist stops. Although the story is funny and the tourist stops do turn out to be rather more dangerous than the cruise goers were expecting, it also admittedly lacks some of the magic of the fairy tale its traditional form. …" @default.
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