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- Title
Legend Webs: Karen Joy Fowler's Ostensive Critique of American Society.
- Authors
Attebery, Jennifer Eastman
- Abstract
Similarly to the fairy-tale web, legend webs constitute shared worldviews and self-reflexive critiques of worldviews for tellers, writers, auditors, and readers of legends and legend-based narratives as found in literature and mediated narrative. This article examines Karen Joy Fowler's engagement in legend webs in her novels Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season , and Sister Noon. Fowler incorporates numerous historical and contemporary legends, sometimes including supernatural motifs, highlighting the operation of ostension (acting on belief in legend) as a form of epistemological inquiry and societal critique. Legend webs create an aesthetics of curiosity, parody, and doubt.
- Subjects
FOWLER, Karen Joy; THEORY of knowledge; STORYBOARDS; STORYTELLING; FAIRY tales
- Publication
Marvels & Tales, 2022, Vol 36, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
1521-4281
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mat.2022.0001