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Christy Williams

Publications -  2
Citations -  14

Christy Williams is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Beauty & Intertextuality. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 11 citations.

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Who's Wicked Now?: The Stepmother as Fairy-Tale Heroine

Christy Williams
- 01 Jul 2010 - 
TL;DR: Coover's 2004 novel, "Stepmother" as discussed by the authors, takes on the wicked stepmother figure of fairy-tale tradition and offers a more complex depiction of the character, but it does not address the role of stepmothers in fairy tales.
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Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings (review)

Christy Williams
- 01 Jul 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this article, Joosen argues that retellings interpret traditional fairy tales just as criticism does, and their authors respond not just to the traditional fairy stories but to the criticism about fairy tales as well.