I

Sleeping Beauty

Morning

A Memory

II

Cinderella

Victorians and Romantics

Costume Ball

III

Beauty and the Beast

A fairy tale

Belle

IV

The Wild Swans

Midnight

Elise

Someday

Introduction

Where have all the fairies gone?

Reconceptualising the fairy tale in postmodernity

Chapter 1

Once upon a time ...

Field, tenor, mode and the development of the genre

Chapter 2

Casting Spells

Tellers, audiences and tenor relations

Chapter 3

Do all wishes come true?

Ideology in the postmodern fairy tale

Conclusion

A Happily Ever After

The future of the fairy tale

Works Cited

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