And nowhere is that elusive something more sought after than in romance novels a genre that relies heavily on the tradition of the tales even while requiring their revision for reader satisfaction. Times are grim for the Brothers Grimm: feminist revisionists keep messing with their fairy tales, trying to expunge misogynism while holding on to that elusive something that makes the tales vibrate in the reader’s mind, that aspect that makes the fairy tale, in Max Luthi’s words, “the universe in miniature” (25).
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