Essays about: "rewritings"

Found 3 essays containing the word rewritings.

  1. 1. Rewritings of Circe: Representation, Resistance, and Change in Feminist Revisionism

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Maria Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Rewriting; Feminism; Mythology; Odyssey; Circe; Welty; Atwood; Miller;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the feminist revisionism of the Circe-myth in the rewritings by Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, and Madeline Miller. To that end, the paper first examines three different ways of discussing rewritings: Jeremy M. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Story of How Estebanico Became Mustafa in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account: Retelling Stories in a Post-Colonial Light

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Linnéa Ungewitter; [2016]
    Keywords : storytelling; Post-Colonialism; plurality; diversity; New Historicism; identity; history; rewritings; hybridity; Morocco; Cabeza de Vaca; Laila Lalami; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Both post-colonialism and historical novels are highly topical research themes in today’s literary field, but storytelling as a genre has lost its status. This essay aims to look at the importance of storytelling in the 2014 published novel The Moor’s Account, and how storytelling can be connected to post-colonial rewritings of history. READ MORE

  4. 3. Feminist Fairy Tales : Blurred Boundaries in Angela Carter’s Rewritings of Classical Fairy Tales

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Cornelia Wilhelmsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Angela Carter; feminism; fairy tales; Little Red Riding Hood; Beauty and the Beast;

    Abstract : This essay examines Angela Carter’s feminist rewritings of classical fairy tales. By examining the original fairy tales and comparing them to what Angela Carter published I aim to highlight a feminism that is subtle and non-binary. In the analysis I draw on ideas presented by Hélène Cixous as well as Simone de Beauvoir. READ MORE