In Fairyland by Catriona Mcara

In Fairyland by Catriona Mcara

The first substantial scholarly volume devoted to artist Tessa Farmer's work.

For almost two decades now, Tessa Farmer has been evolving a new species of fairy. They represent the point at which science tilts into fantasy - as the sleep of reason produces monsters. In Fairyland is the first substantial scholarly volume devoted to Farmer's work. Here, leading thinkers in the fields of animal art, natural history and gothic studies assemble to investigate the significance of Farmer and her fairies, covering aspects from their relationship to fairy traditions in folklore and art, to entomological precedents for the malevolent behaviours of her creations.

Contributors
Giovanni Aloi, Gail-Nina Anderson, Gavin Broad, Brian Catling, Jeremy Harte, Petra Lange-Berndt, and John Sears

Catriona McAra is an AHRC doctoral candidate in History of Art at the University of Glasgow researching the work of Dorothea Tanning. She is particularly interested in intertextual theory, narratology, and the intersection between Surrealism and the fairy tale. Catriona organised the Anti-Tales symposium and is co-editor of this volume. David Calvin is a doctoral candidate in the Languages and Literature department at the University of Ulster, Belfast. His PhD thesis is entitled No More Happily Ever After: The Anti-Fairy Tale in Postmodern Literature and Popular Culture, and has been instrumental in the reintroduction of the term anti-tales to current scholarship. He is co-editor of this volume.

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ISBN 13	9781907222375
ISBN 10	1907222375
Title	In Fairyland
Author	Catriona Mcara
Series	In Fairyland
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Strange Attractor Press
Year published	2016-10-05
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.