Naslov
A Return to 'Once Upon a Time'; Rewriting the Image of Traditional Womanhood in Contemporary Women's Writing

Autori
Vranić, Nikolina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad

Fakultet
Odjel za anglistiku

Mjesto
Zadar

Datum
22.02

Godina
2023

Stranica
38

Mentor
Ukić Košta, Vesna

Ključne riječi
fairy tale, feminism, rewriting, Carter, Donoghue, Duffy

Sažetak
This MA paper sets out to analyse ways in which well-known female heroines are represented in the selection of fairy tales rewritten by three contemporary authors. The stories and poems from Angel Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) and Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (1995), Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (1997), and Carol Ann Duffy’s Faery Tales (2014) and The World's Wife (1999) are under discussion in the paper. The paper argues that the selected authors openly defy the traditional plot and conventional representations of protagonists, especially the female ones. By offering a reimagined narrative and subverting gender stereotypes so typical for fairy tales, they show how the stories originally created by male writers could be approached from the female point of view.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost, Rodni studiji

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