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العنوان
Postmodern Parody in Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes
(1982) /
المؤلف
El-Said,Amal Hamdy Atea.
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / Amal Hamdy Atea El-Said
مشرف / Laila Galal Rizk
مشرف / Amal A. El-Hadary
تاريخ النشر
2018
عدد الصفحات
339p.;
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
ماجستير
التخصص
الأدب والنظرية الأدبية
تاريخ الإجازة
1/1/2018
مكان الإجازة
جامعة عين شمس - كلية الألسن - الأدب الانجليزي
الفهرس
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Abstract

Postmodern parody is mainly used to subvert that which it
parodies. Fairy tales have been the target of several parodies due to their
simplicity and familiarity. Fairy tales have been used throughout history to
convey morals and expected behavioral codes to children. Postmodern
parodies of fairy tales aim to criticize these morals and codes of behavior.
While traditional fairy tales usually depict male characters in a superior
position to female characters, revisionist fairy tales often deconstruct this
notion by empowering and reinventing female characters. Through the use
of parodic techniques, postmodern fairy tales aim to subvert the
patriarchal values that are present in most traditional fairy tales.
This thesis examines the transformations of three prominent fairy
tales—“Cinderella,” “Snow White,” and “Little Red Riding Hood”—in
the poetry of the British poet Roald Dahl (1916-90) who transforms the
traditional fairy tales in order to challenge the conventional notions of
gender paradigms. The thesis aims at examining the different
transformations of the aforementioned fairy tales in Dahl’s volume of
poetry Revolting Rhymes (1982). It explores how each poem challenges
certain notions found in traditional fairy tales: female passivity, female
inferiority, male superiority, and the happily-ever-after motif.
This thesis will attempt to explore the three fairy-tale retellings
through the lens of postmodern parody, with an emphasis on the six
parodic techniques introduced by the American theorist Dan Harries in his
book Film Parody (2000). Through employing Harries’s parodic
techniques and adapting them to poetic use, the thesis will examine how
these techniques are used to twist each fairy tale into a new one that
vi
blatantly challenges the gender paradigms and the happily-ever-after
motif. The thesis will be the first to apply the above methodology on a
poetic text.
Key words: Roald Dahl, Postmodern Parody, Fairy Tales, Cinderella,
Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood