TY - BOOK ID - 136077251 TI - Into the woods of wicked wonderland : musicals revise fairy tales PY - 2014 SN - 3825374467 9783825374464 9783825363017 3825363015 PB - Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, DB - UniCat KW - Fairy tales KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136077251 AB - This work explores the dynamics of the metamorphosis that the classical fairy tales have undergone throughout the centuries. Such analysis is conducted from a literary and from a memetic point of view, through an investigation that aims at outlining the role of the fairy tale within the relationship between man's urge for self-narration and the performance of such urge. It specifically focusses on the evolutionary process that links the Grimms' collection, Carroll's Alice books, Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', and Maguire's 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' to t ER -