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  1. Shape-shifting tales
    Michèle Roberts's monstrous women
    Author: Castagna, Valentina
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Lang, Bern

    Location:
    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
    Signature:
    Q R 40 XV
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3034305680; 9783034305686
    Subjects: Frau <Motiv>; Körper <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Roberts, Michèle (1949-)
    Scope: 127 Seiten, 22 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 117 - 127
  2. Shape-shifting tales
    Michèle Roberts's monstrous women
    Author: Castagna, Valentina
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3034305680; 9783034305686; 9783035101331
    Subjects: Women in literature; Kurzgeschichte; Frau <Motiv>; Das Monströse
    Other subjects: Roberts, Michele; Roberts, Michèle (1949-)
    Scope: 127 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-127)
  3. Shape-shifting tales
    Michèle Roberts‘s monstrous women
    Author: Castagna, Valentina
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Lang, Bern

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  4. Shape-shifting tales
    Michèle Roberts's monstrous women
    Author: Castagna, Valentina
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Lang, Bern

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783034305686; 3034305680
    Other identifier:
    9783034305686
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Subjects: Roberts, Michele--Criticism and interpretation.; Women in literature.; Femininity in literature.; Human body in literature.; Sex in literature.
    Scope: 127 S., 21 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [113] - 127
  5. Shape-Shifting Tales
    Michele Roberts's Monstrous Women
    Author: Castagna, Valentina
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern

    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... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    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's counter-narratives, focussing 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's stories ques

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783034305686
    Scope: Online-Ressource (129 p)
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    Table of Contents; Introduction 11; CHAPTER 1 Fairy Tales and Contemporary Women's Short Stories 17; Rewriting fairy tales and hagiography 32; Reworking motherhood 38; The mother-daughter relationship 52; Empowering monstrosity in contemporary fairy tales 57; CHAPTER 2 Monstrous Inheritance: Animal Bodies 63; Anger and the tradition of contes melusiniens 64; Angry young women 68; CHAPTER 3 Cutting the Body Free: Between Hagiography and Fairy Tales 79; "Flesh of my flesh": the body in pain? 83; CHAPTER 4 Knowledge and Desire: Cannibal Appetites 97; Cannibalism and fairy tale tradition 98

    Cooking the cannibal 103Conclusions 109; References 113;