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Doubling and Multiplying the Self/Story in Catherynne M. Valente’s The Ice Puzzle: Readers, Writers, and the Best of All Girls
- Marvels & Tales
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 29, Number 2, 2015
- pp. 195-208
- 10.13110/marvelstales.29.2.0195
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I attempt to answer a question asked after I presented a paper at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts some years ago: Is there a difference between the doubled self and the multiplied self? Using Kelly Link’s “The Girl Detective,” a revision of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” and Catherynne M. Valente’s online novel The Ice Puzzle, a revision of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” I suggest that the joy taken in the multiplied self in these texts reflects the nontraditional approaches to publishing and their readers that these authors have taken.