"September didn't know what sort of story she was in": The Hybrid Genres of Uncanny Fairy Tales

Abstract

“New forms of belief—and new literary forms—can be hewn out of contraries. Even when no longer regarded as pre-existent and authoritative, old constructs can survive if modified, re-spliced, readapted.” (Knoepflmacher, “Introduction: Hybrid Forms and Cultural Anxiety” 2). “The world of birds, of monsters, of Or’s beauty was the same as the one where I had always lived, which none of us had understood wholly.