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Renee
Registered User
(11/26/05 10:33 pm)
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Independant Study part 2....
Hey, thanks so much for your help... But unfortunatly i need some help with some sub topics. I need help on arguments and sub-topics for my I.S.U about the portrayal of woman in fairytales. It would be really wickid if anyone could maybe help me with a section that focus on the Bible being a fairytale and the portrayal of woman within it... I reallly need some HELP!!
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princessterribel
Registered User
(11/27/05 4:17 am)
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Re: Independant Study part 2....
What are your opinions on it first...the bible is huge, there are lots of possibilities, perhaps you could pick aout a couple of key sections that you want to focus on, and think about how it relates to fairytale, then we mite be a bit more help.
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catja1
Registered User
(11/28/05 4:12 pm)
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Re: Independant Study part 2....
Fairy tales are folk stories with a supernatural element that are told as FICTION, for entertainment. The Bible contains a number of supernatural stories, but they are told in the context of religious belief or perceived historical reality, which makes them myths and/or legends, not fairy tales. It's the same thing with Greek mythology: these stories were understood to be religious truths by the people who told them, and therefore they are myths, not fairy tales.
You might want to investigate modern retellings of fairy tales from a feminist perspective, particularly Angela Carter's short stories in The Bloody Chamber -- even better get her collection Burning Your Boats, which contains all of The Bloody Chamber, and a number of Carter's other stories. That way, you could maybe divide your project into historical representations of women in fairy tales -- as laid out in From the Beast to the Blonde and the work of Jack Zipes -- and modern tellings.
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(11/28/05 5:04 pm)
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bible
While that's true, I think we'd do ourselves a disservice to dismiss the possibility of correspondences and parallels in the Bible and fairy tales.
Alicia Ostriker has written a book on feminist retellings of the Bible--I forget what it's called, but you can run her name through a library search engine and come up with it.
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