Shape-Shifting Tales : Michele Roberts's Monstrous Women PDF
by Valentina Castagna
Description
This book provides an analysis of the representation of women's bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michele Roberts.
The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the "Grimm Brothers'" and "Charles Perrault's", the lives of female saints and Roberts' counter-narratives, focusing on the analysis of images of sublimed fleshliness and of acts of monstrous violence on the body.
The book takes into account relevant Women's Studies criticism regarding the mother-daughter relationship, as Roberts' stories question the role of mother figures in traditional fairy tales and hagiography and at the same time rework the concept of motherhood itself.
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- Pages:127 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:27/10/2010
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- ISBN:9783035101331
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:127 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:27/10/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9783035101331