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Nelson, Katherine

Page history last edited by Katherine Nelson 10 years ago

Contact Information: katherine.nelson2@wayne.edu

Major: Nursing

Interests Related to this Course: Gender Subversion in Fairy Tales and Myth, Folk Roots of the Fairy Tale, Moralism in the Fairy Tale, The Wild vs. The Civilized, Coming of Age in the Fairy Tale, The Villain.

Final Paper: Fairy Tales in Visual Media

Rough Draft: Katherine Nelson Fairy Tale Final Rough Draft.docx

Edits: Nelson Fairy Tale Final Rough Draft.docx

Final Draft: Nelson Fairy Tale Final Paper.docx

Thesis: In this paper I will examine the themes of female kinship and autonomy as they are presented in the "Briar Rose" fairy tale archetype.

Title:

A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Autonomy and Kinship in the Classic Fairy Tale

Fairy Tales I am Using

Snow White and Rose Red - "Sisterhood"

Snow White - Rivalry

Sleeping Beauty - Godmother

Rapunzel - Witch / Keeper

Sources

Greenhill, Pauline.transgressive tales: queering the Grimms. Wayne state university press, 2012.

Duthell de la Rochere, Marthine. ""But Marriage Itself is no Party: Angela Carter's Translation of Charles Perrault's "La Belle au Bois Dormant"; or, Pitting the Politics of Experience Against the Sleeping Beauty Myth.

Mayako, Murai. "The Princess, the Witch, and the Fireside: Yanagi Miwa's Uncanny Restaging of Fairy Tales." Marvels and Tales, Volume 27, Number 2, 2013, pp. 234 - 253, Wayne State University Press. - I think I will do my own analysis of the pictures, using this as a primary source. Also using Angela Carter and Marina Warner as primary sources.

Warner, Marina. "After Rapunzel". Marvels & Tales, Volume 24, Number 2, 2010, pp. 329-335 (Article)

Wayne State University Press.

Gilbert + Gubar, Madwoman in the Attic. "Snow White and her Wicked Stepmother".

Midterm Paper: Fairy Tales in Visual Media

"The Ogre as the Savage: French and English Fairy Tale in the Colonial Era"

The theme of the ogre.docx

Fairy Tales: Tom Thumb, Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots: The Visual Representation of the Ogre.

Comments (7)

Looking at a minor character across these different works is great!! Sounds like a very interesting topic!!

These are great images! Looking forward to how you compare this with the literary tale! You may want to think about how these images shape the message/the rivalry between the tiny hero and the giant/ogre… huge non-human-other. In these images, the giant/ogre is humanized. What does that signify?

Instead of looking at the evolution of a single fairy tale, it looks like you're interested in analyzing a single theme across several nineteenth-century fairy tales. That's great! Consider using cultural context to make these claims significant (i.e. Why is the subversion of female kinship meaningful in nineteenth-century German culture? Or is this an unintentional echo of earlier tales?).

I am still going through resources but here's some I want to use. I think I will use the resources to narrow down the tales I'm working with.

Excellent topic and great sources (though some sections of "Women Who Run With Wolves" are primary tales, not secondary)!

This is a good working thesis (I like how it focuses on specific material). As you revise (especially after you finish and know exactly what argument you want to make), you may want to transform this statement into more of an argument. For example, "This paper explores the way female kinship in fairy tales attempts to correct the abuses of a patriarchal society through the tropes of blessing, advise, …" (this is just an example of argument, NOT the argument you need to make).

the final paper shows up with edits for some reason but this can be changed by going to "review" and choosing "final". I am not awesome at Microsoft Word.

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