Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytical Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale by Veronica Schanoes (review)

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Reviewed by: Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytical Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale by Veronica Schanoes Cristina Bacchilega Schanoes, Veronica. Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytical Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. To open her book’s “Introduction: The Mother’s Looking Glass,” Veronica Schanoes offers a “sorcerous mirror” scene from Tanith Lee’s White as Snow (2000), where a daughter’s desire activates her mother’s own magic power; Schanoes guides readers to see how Lee’s representation of “mother-daughter dyads and mirrors, vision and revision, to represent feminine subjectivity” re-envisions “Snow White”—so often used to reinforce competition between women—into a feminist story. Figures of doubling, permeable boundaries and revisionist desires apply to texts as well as psyches in this remarkable critical study of how fairy-tale retellings from the 1970s and 1990s (from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Catherynne Valente) mirror contem

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