Essays about: "fairy tale tradition"

Found 4 essays containing the words fairy tale tradition.

  1. 1. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber through the Female Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Julia Bällsten; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber has primarily been focused on the feminist undertones of her neogothic fairy tale retellings. In this essay, I apply the male and female gaze to Carter’s collection, which are perspectives I believe previous research on Carter’s works has overlooked. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Too ridiculous to be believed” – an Analysis of Fairy Tale Violence in Roald Dahl’s Children’s Fiction

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Daniel Halonen; [2021]
    Keywords : children’s literature; burlesque violence; retaliatory violence; cautionary effect; cathartic effect; fairy tale tradition; cautionary tales;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine several categories of violence in Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction, with the background of fairy tale theory. Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction has raised criticism, and the grounds of it are reconsidered in this essay. READ MORE

  4. 3. Modern Fairy Tales: The New Existence of an Old Genre : Exemplified by the Books of Alan A. Milne, Tove Jansson and Eno Raud

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Svetlana Yashkina; [2016]
    Keywords : children s literature; literary fairy-tale; modernism; poetics; semiotics; folkloristics; myth; mytho-logic; archaic intertext; memory of the genre; fantasy; chronotope; A.A. Milne; Tove Jansson; Eno Raud; Elezar Meetinsky; Michail Bakhtin; Yuri Lotman; Vladimir Propp; Bruno Bettelheim; barnlitteratur; saga; konstsaga; folkloristik; semiotik; myt; intertextualitet; poetik;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre and its transformation. The study is exemplified by two books by Alan A. READ MORE

  5. 4. Modern Day Fairy Tales : A comparative study between Amy Plum's Die for Me and the Western Fairy Tale Tradition

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Anna Persson Penzer; [2015]
    Keywords : fairy tales; feminism; amy plum; die for me; good; evil; knowledge; Snow-White; Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty; Evil Queen; Twilight;

    Abstract : .... READ MORE