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De mannenschrik : over het motief van de verslindende vrouw in literatuur en mythe.
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ISBN: 9070087138 Year: 1984 Publisher: Zutphen ten Bosch


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Ik zing mijn lied voor al wie met mij gaat : vrouwen in de volksliteratuur.
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ISBN: 9061942551 9789061942559 Year: 1986 Publisher: Utrecht HES

Postmodern fairy tales : gender and narrative strategies
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ISBN: 0812216830 9786613211101 1283211106 0812200632 0812233921 9780812216837 9780812233926 Year: 1997 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: "Snow White," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Bluebeard." Bacchilega traces the oral sources of each tale, offers a provocative interpretation of contemporary versions by Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Margaret Atwood, and Tanith Lee, and explores the ways in which the tales are transformed in film, television, and musicals.

In search of the swan maiden : a narrative on folklore and gender
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ISBN: 0814750680 0814751008 9780814750681 9780814751008 0814752683 0585322309 9780585322308 9780814752685 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have most often been interpreted as depicting exogamous marriages, describing the girl from another tribe trapped in a world where she will always be the outsider. Barbara Fass Leavy believes that, in the societies in which the tale and its variants endured, woman was the other--the outsider trapped in a society that could never be her own. Leavy shows how the tale, though rarely explicitly recognized, is frequently replayed in modern literature. Beautifully written, this book reveals the myriad ways in which the folktales of a society reflect its cultural values, and particularly how folktales are allegories of gender relations. It will interest anyone involved in literary, gender, and cultural studies.


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Sommeils et vieilles dans le conte merveilleux grec
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ISSN: 00145815 ISBN: 9514109007 951410899X 9789514108990 9789514109003 Year: 2002 Volume: 279

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