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“Disney World has Become a Kind of Reverse Lourdes” From Stanley Elkin back to Basile Get access

Armando Maggi
in Preserving the Spell: Basile's "The Tale of Tales" and Its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition
Published: 28 July 2015
...This short chapter analyses Stanley Elkin’s postmodern novels, and in particular The Magic Kingdom, which describes the trip to Disney World organized for a group of terminally ill children. The harshly satirical tone of the novel represents a strong criticism of Disney’s...