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Metamorfosi del mostruoso: la Melusine di Michèle Roberts

2009

Contemporary English Literature Women's Studies Myths MelusineSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Donne-gufo: resistenze e metamorfosi

2010

Settore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura IngleseMarina Warner Women's Studies Myths
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Intersezioni di identità nell’Inghilterra vittoriana: note sulla storiografiadi Leonore Davidoff

2019

The chapter discusses some issues of the historiography of Leonore Davidoff, regarding gender identities in Victorian England

Settore M-STO/04 - Storia ContemporaneaSettore M-STO/02 - Storia ModernaLeonore Davidoff Gender identities Women's studies Victorian Era
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Shape-Shifting Tales. Michèle Roberts's Monstrous Women

2010

The book provides an analysis of the representation of women’s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle 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 question the role of mother figures in traditional fairy tales and hagiography and at the same time rewo…

Short-story Contemporary English literature Women's studies Popular cultureSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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