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Tytuł: Revisiting the fairy land: Anne Sexton’s transformation of the Grimms’ female characters
Autorzy: Korzeniewska-Nowakowska, Paulina
Słowa kluczowe: fairy tales
feminism
female protagonist
adaptation
postmodern poetry
Data wydania: 2015
Data dodania: 20-mar-2017
Wydawca: The University of Bialystok
Źródło: Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 10 (3/2015), pp. 15-21
Abstrakt: Anne Sexton’s vivid and scandalous literary heritage has always been arousing controversy mostly due to its confessional character. It is, however, underestimated that one of the sources of her poetic inspirations was a broadly defined European culture and tradition, including the Grimms’ fairy tales. This article strives to inquire how Sexton revisits narratives of canonical tales with special regard to female protagonists. An apparent discrepancy will be shown between the two versions in terms of poetic imagery, character construction, and the reality in which they are firmly anchored. The morals drawn from the poems markedly diverge from the original versions, for it is with pessimism and disillusionment that Sexton transforms the naïve and sentimental images. The applied adaptation, hence, serves here to articulate the conflict between the traditional, male-centered set of values and a feminist perspective. The poems’ structures, literary figures, cultural references, features of genre, and other elements will be examined and analyzed to compare the retold stories with their archetypes and to provide a detailed interpretation in the light of the addressed problems.
Afiliacja: University of Zielona Góra, Poland
Nota biograficzna: Paulina Korzeniewska-Nowakowska is a PhD student in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland. Her academic interests include: American confessional poetry, postmodern studies, olympism, olympic idea in film and literature.
E-mail: paulinakorzeniewska@gmail.com
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5300
DOI: 10.15290/cr.2015.10.3.02
ISSN: 2300-6250
Typ Dokumentu: Article
Występuje w kolekcji(ach):Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 2015, Issue 10

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