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EN200 (Fall 2008): Collaborative Project Bibliography

Page history last edited by Nzinga Kelliebrew 15 years, 4 months ago

 

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 1957. Ed. Geoffrey Galt Harpham. 8th ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005.

Barzilai, Sarah. “Snow White: The Mother’s Story”. Chicago Journals. 15.3 (1990): 515-534. Jstor. Marymount U Lib, Arlington, VA. 21 October, 2008 <http:www.jstor.org>

Barzilai argues that part of the tradition of oral poetry and folktales is the “continually recreated narrative” (515). She examines how due to numerous variations of a tale may bring forth minor changes here and there in detail. Ultimately there is a similarity in the general language and motifs of the story with out regard to history. In the hundreds of versions of Snow White we will always find an envious tyrant, weather it be evil stepmother, jealous sister, etc, trying their best to cause harm to Snow White. Barzilai suggests that studying the psychoanalytic and then feminist perspective can to contribute to another point of view, a mother’s, which can help to better understand why stories such as Snow White have such commonalities. (M.Kidane) 

Barzilai, Shuli. “Snow White: The Mother’s Story.” Chicago Journals. 15.3 (1990): 515-534. JSTOR. Marymount U. Library, Arlington, Va. October 21, 2008. <http:www.jstor.org>

In this article, Barzilai suggests that Snow White is “a story about mothers and daughters” (522-523). Though there are many variations of this story, it is essentially about a mother who doesn’t want to let go of her role as caretaker and a daughter who wants nothing more than to become independent of her mother. This tale relates to most mother-daughter relationships; from the time of conception, the daughter depends solely on the mother for her every need and the mother relishes that dependence because it gives her a significant role in her child’s life. However, as the daughter grows older, she begins to develop her own opinions and thoughts and no longer needs to be cared for. Thus, their relationship becomes damaged- the mother attempts to revert to the time when her child needed her, and the daughter can’t get away fast enough.  (A. Harrison)  

Gill, Jo. Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics. UP of Florida, 2007.

_____. “Textual  Confessions: Narcissism in Anne Sexton’s Early Poetry.”  Twentieth Century Literature 50 (2004): 59-87.    

Gill contends that Anne Sexton’s poetry is both “reflective and luminous” (82), mimetic and expressive. She tells us that although some critics define contemporary or postmodern poetry “by reference to its other” (60), I. e. confessional poetry, that which “fundamentally characterizes”  the work of confessional poets (e.g. Sexton) is the exact same “interest in ‘artifice’” as characterizes the work of postmodernist poets.  Further, she states that the “authorial  self-absorption verging on narcissism” that ubiquitously dominates confessional poetry is actually  “a sophisticated and productive strategy “ (61), or an ‘artifice’ for coping with the same themes of “language, subjectivity, representation, and  referentiality.”  [Andrew Lewis]  

 

 

 

 

Layng, Jacqueline. "The Animated Woman: The Powerless Beauty of Disney Heroines from Snow White to Jasmine."     The American Journal of Semiotics 17.3 (2001): 197-115. ProQuest. Marymount U Lib., Arlington, VA. 30 October 2008

http://www.proquest.umi.com.proxymu.wrlc.org.

In this article Layng stresses the importance of animated film and the genre's influence on worldwide audiences from a semiotic point of view.  She writes that animated movies have not been critically analyzed because they were regarded by many as unworthy of critical analysis.  But these same movies are released to a global market and specifically target children, making them substantially significant.  Layng also notes that animated movies are deliberate as they are carefully controlled and contain no extraneous information.  This means writers, directors, and artists can strongly influence their story-telling.  Layng focuses on the comparison of two popular Disney heroines, Snow White and Jasmine.  She concludes that although the exterior differences between these characters are striking, they both rely on their male counterparts to survive the stories' plots.  Even though Snow White and Jasmine represent two different eras they essentially come from the same mold as they are both part of Disney's animated world. [Sarika Rao]

 

Neeman, Harold   Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A HandbookMarvels & Tales, 20(2),  2005  Armonk, New York , M.E. Sharpe, Inc. [Kelliebrew]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Sexton, Anne. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Classic Fairy Tales. Ed. by Maria Tatar. New York: Norton, 1999. 96-100. 

 

Middlebrook, Diane. Anne Sexton- A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. [M. Kidane]

Wagner-Martin, Linda. “Anne Sexton’s Life.” 2000. OxfordUniversity Press 9 Nov. 2008 <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/sexton/sexton_life.htm>. [M. Kidane]

 

 Sellers, Susan. Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction. New York: Palgrave, 2001. (A.Harrison)

 

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    Joosen, Vanessa  . Disenchanting the Fairy Tale: Retellings of "Snow White" between Magic and RealismMarvels & Tales, 21(2), (2007) pgs 228-239,187-188,313.  Retrieved October 24, 2008, from Humanities Module database. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1459072921&Fmt=3&clientId=31813&RQT=309&VName=PQD&cfc=1

    This article is about the use of magic versus realism  in story telling. The story of Snow White uses an example of magical speech and behavior that causes future events to come true. Simply by wishing for a child that matches her ideal description, Snow White's mother's words come true. The story does not claim this incident to be magic since realism allows such an event to happen and the queen has the same features as her child. The focus in the story of her making a wish for the child to look a certain way seems to focus on the fantasy element of the fairy tale even though there was a high chance scientifically things would have turned out the way that they did. The second focus on magic vs realism is the mirror as magic or as metaphor. In reality, the stepmother needs no mirror to tell her that she is getting older since any woman can see that. The magical mirror simply adds more of an effect of fantasy. Magic is used to exaggerate normal events and objects. [Nzinga Kelliebrew]

Comments (1)

Tonya Howe said

at 8:50 pm on Nov 9, 2008

Looking good, everyone! Remember to double-check your MLA citation styles, though, and put your pieces in alphabetical order!

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