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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Beauty and the Beast"”.
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“Beauty and the Beast” and the Representation of the Female: How Fairy Tales Reinforce and Influence Our Current Understanding of Gender Roles
<p>This thesis aims to contribute to the scholarship on young adult speculative fiction and its pivotal role in subverting the rigid gender roles that have been reinforced since the ancient world of fairy tales. To do so, I will explore Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast” …
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Once Upon a Time in a Single-Parent Family: Father and Daughter Relationships in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
Fairy tales are adapted to fit the needs of each generation, reflecting the unique challenges of that society. In the 1980s and 1990s of the United States, issues of what constituted a family circulated as divorce increased and fatherhood was debated. At this time, Disney released two animated …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
… rewritten in Disney’s live-action adaptations of Beauty and the Beast (Condon 2017), Aladdin (Ritchie 2019), and Pinocchio (Zemeckis 2022), through the lens of Translation Studies. It draws on Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, Butler’s theory of gender performativity, and Bassnett’s …
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Traumas and Recovery in Takaya Natsuki's <em>Fruits Basket</em>
<p>This thesis examines the various traumas within Takaya Natsuki’s anime series <em>Fruits Basket </em>and how the act of transformation triggers the beginnings of recovery for numerous characters. <em>Fruits Basket </em>bears striking similarities to the French fairy tale <em>Beauty and the …
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Plucking the rose: attitudes toward nature in the modern American fairy tale
This thesis compares modern American fairy tales (hypertexts) with earlier influential fairy stories (hypotexts), in particular those bearing intertextual links to the "Beauty and the Beast" tale type, in order to identify changing American attitudes toward nature and to pinpoint prevailing trends …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
<p>This thesis argues that the contemporary rise of Romantasy is not merely a publishing trend but a significant literary and cultural development through which female desire, agency, and subjectivity are being renegotiated. Tracing a historical continuum across Gothic horror, fairy tale discourse, …
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Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions Of National Identity
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>JANE EYRE AND HER TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY DESCENDANTS: THE HEROIC FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY</p> <p>by</p> <p>ABIGAIL RUTH HEINIGER</p> <p>May 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Anca Vlasopolos</p> <p>Major: English</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> …