Publication
Title
Fairy-tale retellings between art and pedagogy
Author
Abstract
In this article, it is shown how authors of fairy-tale retellings have incorporated ideas of feminist literary criticism into a fictional form. As such, these retellings display the tension between the pedagogic and aesthetic aspects of all children?s literature. Jane Yolen?s Sleeping Ugly is chosen as a case study: although it can be argued that the book serves as a mouthpiece for the ideology of the emancipation movement formulated in Marcia Lieberman?s key text ?Some Day My Prince Will Come,? it is suggested that Sleeping Ugly teaches children to read against a text?s authority and as such undermines its own didactic potential.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Children's literature in education. - Exeter
Publication
Exeter : 2005
ISSN
0045-6713
DOI
10.1007/S10583-005-3501-X
Volume/pages
36 :2 (2005) , p. 129-139
ISI
000229402300003
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Publication type
Subject
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
Record
Identifier
Creation 26.03.2011
Last edited 01.01.2022
To cite this reference