Hochschulschrift
The Long Way Home...? : Transforming the Fairy Tale - Medium, Genre, and the Metaphor of the Road
Verfasst von:
Schreiner, Laure
Junglinster:
[chez l'auteur]
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2015
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182 S.
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| Einrichtung: | CID | Fraen an Gender | Luxemburg |
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| Verfasst von: | Schreiner, Laure |
| Jahr: | 2015 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This study examines classic and post-modern feminist strands of literary fairy tale writing, and proposes the image of the palimpsest to articulate the different versions’ relation to each other. While the classic narratives provide the dominant marks on the palimpsest, they coexist, and indeed interact, with numerous “Other” versions of the tales. This comparative analysis combines various theoretical and analytical approaches to shed new light on the dialogue between the classic fairy tales, which both rely on and perpetuate traditional patriarchal power structures and gender roles, and the post-modern feminist rewritings. To explore this relationship, we examine the metaphor of the road, or the initiatory journey, at work in these tales and draw on Arnold Van Gennep’s and Victor Turner’s conception of the rites of passage, whose pre-liminal, liminal and post-liminal stages correspond to the various forms of stable and unstable homes the heroines encounter on their journeys. The stability of these narrative homes and the freedom of choice ascribed to the tales’ heroines is determined by the conceptualisation of metaphor inherent in the tale: drawing on Ortony’s distinction between constructivist and nonconstructivist perceptions of metaphor, we infer a fundamental clash between the classics and the post-modern rewritings in both the configuration of the metaphor of the road and the alternative (readings) it yields. | |
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