Tag: Fairytales

• Bluebeard & the Final Girl: Feminist Retellings of Perrault’s Classic

  

  Sonya Vatomsky is here to examine the myth of Bluebeard, Perrault’s text as a canonical work, is in dire need of retelling. Culturally, Bluebeard has found itself linked more to temptation/knowledge narratives like the Garden of Eden and Pandora’s Box than to narratives of heroic escape from monstrous kings and ogres. This in itself is…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/02/2017

  Guest Post

  Bluebeard, Bride, Charles Perrault, Culture, Deadmaidens, Fairytales, Female Curiosity, Feminism, Final Girl, Folklore, Gender, Gender Roles, Genre, Marriage, Murder, Narrative, Perrault, Power, Retelling, Story, Women

• Sleeping Beauty

  A beautiful work of fiction for you this week from Angie McLachlan. Capturing the essences of a myriad of deaths, feelings and experiences, plucked from her 25 years serving families & caring for the dead through the sacred art and science of Embalming. Making clear this is more than just a job, Angie delves into the…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2016

  Guest Post

  Achievement, Anubis, Art, Beauty, Career, Change, Choice, Deadmaidens, Death, Embalmer, Embalming, Emotion, Experiences, Fairytales, Family, Fiction, Grief, History, Loss, Mortuary, Science, Skill