Anne Sexton's Transformations exemplifies the postmodernist use of humoristic strategies in the poetic rewriting of fairytale plots and paradigms. Starting from literary and linguistic theories on parody and humor, this analysis focuses on expressive devices such as puns, understatements and script oppositions through which Sexton reconfigures fairytales in the American post-WWII culture, also criticizing the female condition and problematizing the literary tradition.
Trasfigurazioni parodiche della fiaba nella poesia femminile contemporanea: Transformations (1971) di Anne Sexton
Carmen Bonasera
2019-01-01
Abstract
Anne Sexton's Transformations exemplifies the postmodernist use of humoristic strategies in the poetic rewriting of fairytale plots and paradigms. Starting from literary and linguistic theories on parody and humor, this analysis focuses on expressive devices such as puns, understatements and script oppositions through which Sexton reconfigures fairytales in the American post-WWII culture, also criticizing the female condition and problematizing the literary tradition.File in questo prodotto:
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