Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction

Context: theories of myth

Double-voice of laughter: Metamorphosing monsters and rescripting female desire in A.S. Byatt's 'the djinn in the nightingale's eye' and Fay Weldon's the life and loves of a she devil

Re-creation in other love: myth-breaking and myth-making in Christine Crow's miss x or the wolf woman and Helene Cixous's the book of Promethea

Becoming gods and umbilical wordbrows: the new hagiography of Michele Roberts

Unlimited horror: vampires, sex-slaves and paragons of the feminine in Anne rice and Emma Tennant

Bodies of power: beauty myths in tales by Marina Warner, Emma Donoghue, Sheri Tepper, and Alice Thompson

New myths or old? Angela Carter's mirrors and mothers.