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If The Shoe Fits: Cinderella And Women's Voice, Farrah V. Kurronen
If The Shoe Fits: Cinderella And Women's Voice, Farrah V. Kurronen
Honors Undergraduate Theses
One of the fundamental stories in fairy tale studies is "Cinderella": folkloric designation ATU 510A, the Persecuted Heroine. As Fairy tale and Folklore studies continue to evolve, authors beyond Basile, Perrault and Grimm are added into the Cinderella canon to lend a more nuanced approach to the study of this fairy tale. Yet "Cinderella" is still often interpreted as a tale of feminine submissiveness, in which the heroine is little more than a passive ornament or else a likeable social-climber. These interpretations stem largely from the focus of "Cinderella" stories written by men. Though studies of "Cinderella" are expanding, "Cendrillon", …
Direct Discourse And Female Archetypes In Chrétien De Troyes's Romances, Raquelle A. Crotty
Direct Discourse And Female Archetypes In Chrétien De Troyes's Romances, Raquelle A. Crotty
Honors Undergraduate Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of the female messenger archetype in Chrétien de Troyes's romances within the context of the rising courtly literature written in France throughout the early twelfth century. The romances by Chrétien that will serve as cases in point for this thesis are Érec et Énide, Lancelot, and Yvain. I analyze the various courtly ladies of the lower nobility to whom Chrétien attributes direct discourse and study how their verbal influence over the plot and the extent to which they are directly involved in the action of that plot correlate to one …