Snow White | Techniques/Literary Precedents
Snow White is one of several works of the 1960s and 1970s that recycles myths and fairy tales: John Gardner's Grendel (1971), John Barth's Chimera (1972), Robert Coover's Pricksongs and Descants (1969), and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979). In defense of James Joyce's high-modernist novel, Ulysses (1922), T. S. Eliot defined what he called "mythic method" — "the drawing of a continuous parallel between the ancient and the modern in order to make sense of the enormous panorama of anarchy and futility which is contemporary life." The...
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