The Gingerbread House: rereading Hansel and Gretel

Authors

  • Fernanda Aquino Sylvestre

Keywords:

fairy tales, contemporaneous literature, Robert Coover, short story, intertextuality.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show, through intertextual relations between two tales,
how Coover (2000) rereads the renowned fairy tale Hansel and Gretel breaking the reader’s expectations in relation to the traditional tale, leading him to new meanings, which raise more questions and critics about the contemporary world. The American author seems to want to rescue the reader from the traditional tales by showing other possibilities to construct the world.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Sylvestre, F. A. (2016). The Gingerbread House: rereading Hansel and Gretel. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 40(3), 1701–1715. Retrieved from https://revistas.gel.org.br/estudos-linguisticos/article/view/1291

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Section

Literatura Estrangeira