Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions

Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions

This paper will focus on feminist retellings, the appropriation of traditional narratives in order to undermine conventional or stereotypical representations of female identity by patriarchal systems. The emergence of rewritten fairy tales in the late twentieth century sought to reclaim mythic and a...

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Main Author: Yee, Victoria Wei Wen
Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63114
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-631142019-12-10T11:13:27Z Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions Yee, Victoria Wei Wen Yong Wern Mei School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English This paper will focus on feminist retellings, the appropriation of traditional narratives in order to undermine conventional or stereotypical representations of female identity by patriarchal systems. The emergence of rewritten fairy tales in the late twentieth century sought to reclaim mythic and archetypal female figures for their own, undermining the containment of women's experience within these archetypes. With the deconstruction of these fairy tales and myths, they reconstruct a more humanised portrayal of the female identity, and rebuilding it on their own terms. Bachelor of Arts 2015-05-06T03:38:41Z 2015-05-06T03:38:41Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63114 en Nanyang Technological University 45 p. application/pdf
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Yee, Victoria Wei Wen
Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions
description This paper will focus on feminist retellings, the appropriation of traditional narratives in order to undermine conventional or stereotypical representations of female identity by patriarchal systems. The emergence of rewritten fairy tales in the late twentieth century sought to reclaim mythic and archetypal female figures for their own, undermining the containment of women's experience within these archetypes. With the deconstruction of these fairy tales and myths, they reconstruct a more humanised portrayal of the female identity, and rebuilding it on their own terms.
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title Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions
title_short Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions
title_full Maiden, mother, monster : archetypal images of women in fairy tale revisions
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