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

• Main Author: Yee, Victoria Wei Wen
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63114
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...