Feminine Monstrosity Reconsidered: Sirens, Mermaids and Giant Women in Contemporary English Novels
Feminine Monstrosity Reconsidered: Sirens, Mermaids and Giant Women in Contemporary English Novels
Author(s): Carmen BujdeiSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: English Literature; postmodernism; Angela Carter; Jeanette Winterson; feminist studies; hybrid identities
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the image of several typologies of fairy tale women, as seen by the contemporary English novelists Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
Journal: Caietele Echinox
- Issue Year: 2002
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 185-205
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English
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