A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Cinderella"

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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410342832
Total Pages : 27 pages
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Transformations

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150403435X
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Transformations by : Anne Sexton

Download or read book Transformations written by Anne Sexton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary—a witch’s blood “began to boil up/like Coca-Cola” and Snow White’s bodice is “as tight as an Ace bandage”—Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales’ happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as “diapers and dust,” “telling the same story twice,” or “getting a middle-aged spread,” and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking “knock-out drops” behind the prince’s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton—the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple.

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618057047
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.

The World's Wife

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 057119995X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The World's Wife written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Words for Dr. Y.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Words for Dr. Y. written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Sexton's poems containing most of her important work that had not been published at the time of her death.

The Poets' Grimm

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ISBN 13 : 9781586540272
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poets' Grimm by : Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Download or read book The Poets' Grimm written by Jeanne Marie Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection features the work of more than 100 poets. Here is the modern poets' response to classic Brothers Grimm stories, spanning the 20th century with passion, style, wit, and wonder.

Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191417
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned by : Gretchen Schultz

Download or read book Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned written by Gretchen Schultz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.

Double Jinx

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319387
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Double Jinx by : Nancy Reddy

Download or read book Double Jinx written by Nancy Reddy and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dark narratives about femininity . . . Reddy channels the vibe and energy of Plath and Sexton, but it’s her arresting language that’s the real draw here.” —Publishers Weekly Double Jinx follows the multiple transformations—both figurative and literal—that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sexton’s Transformations, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity. A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelgänger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy tales becomes fascinated with a copy of Grey’s Anatomy in which she finds a “pink girl pinned to the page as if in vivisection. Could she / be pink inside like that? No decent girl / would go around the world like that, uncooked.” The collection culminates in an understanding of the ways we construct ourselves, whether it be by way of imitation, performance, and/or transformation. And it looks forward as well, for in coming to understand our identities as essentially malleable, we are liberated. Or as the author writes, “we’ll be our own gods now.” “Exquisitely crafted poems . . . an exploration of woman’s manifold selves.” —Rebecca Dunham, author of Cold Pastoral

The Charmed Wife

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593085507
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Charmed Wife written by Olga Grushin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems--the twists and turns of its magical, dark, and swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book To Bedlam and Part Way Back written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part three of Alice's adventure through the stacks, she has learned much on her journey. She takes a moment to ponder the meaning of words.

Reading, Writing, and Gender

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317922670
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading, Writing, and Gender by : Gail Lynn Goldberg

Download or read book Reading, Writing, and Gender written by Gail Lynn Goldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an increasing number of educators, you recognize that girls and boys approach reading and writing differently, and that boys are lagging behind girls in many assessments of literacy learning. This book does more than describe and explain these differences. It builds on the authors' state of the art research to offer instructional strategies and classroom activities to help both girls and boys develop as readers and writers. This book is for classroom teachers in grades 3 - 8 as well as for reading specialists, instructional leaders and other educators. It provides detailed descriptions of instructional activities, accompanied by reproducible tools and materials; illustrative examples of student work; concise summaries of state-of-the-art research; and ideas for action research projects. The strategies and activities in this book have all been classroom tested with diverse student populations.

Anne Sexton

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679741828
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis Anne Sexton by : Diane Middlebrook

Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Diane Middlebrook and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-10-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.

Literature: Craft and Voice

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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9780073384924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature: Craft and Voice by : Alan Cheuse

Download or read book Literature: Craft and Voice written by Alan Cheuse and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2012-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing writers to readers brings readers to writing. Today’s students do read—we know that they read a significant amount of email, text messages, web pages, and even magazines. What many do not do is read in a sustained way. Many do not come to college prepared to read long texts, nor do they come with the tools necessary to analyze and synthesize what they read. Nick Delbanco and Alan Cheuse have proven in their own teaching that when you improve students’ ability and interest in reading, you will help them improve their writing. A new part 1 in this edition frontloads information for students on both the writing process and the critical use of sources. Bringing writers to students, brings students to writing. Literature: Craft and Voice is an innovative Introductory Literature program designed to engage students in the reading of Literature, all with a view to developing their reading, analytical, and written skills. Accompanied by, and integrated with, video interviews of dozens of living authors who are featured in the text, conducted by authors Nick Delbanco and Alan Cheuse specifically for use with their textbook, the book provides a living voice for the literature on the page and creates a link between the student and the authors of great works of literature. The first text of its kind, Literature: Craft and Voice offers a more enjoyable and effective reading experience through its fresh, inviting design and accompanying rich video program. Digital support is provided through CONNECT Literature which will be totally integrated with the Blackboard CMS.

Literature

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ISBN 13 : 9780155036239
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature by : Laurie G. Kirszner

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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191004162
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by : Jack Zipes

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales written by Jack Zipes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous related topics such as the fairy tale and film, television, art, opera, ballet, the oral tradition, music, advertising, cartoons, fantasy literature, feminism, and stamps. First published in 2000, 130 new entries have been added to account for recent developments in the field, including J. K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, and new articles on topics such as cognitive criticism and fairy tales, digital fairy tales, fairy tale blogs and websites, and pornography and fairy tales. The remaining entries have been revised and updated in consultation with expert contributors. This second edition contains beautifully designed feature articles highlighting countries with a strong fairy tale tradition, covering: Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, North America and Canada, Portugal, Scandinavian countries, Slavic and Baltic countries, and Spain. It also includes an informative and engaging introduction by the editor, which sets the subject in its historical and literary context. A detailed and updated bibliography provides information about background literature and further reading material. In addition, the A to Z entries are accompanied by over 60 beautiful and carefully selected black and white illustrations. Already renowned in its field, the second edition of this unique work is an essential companion for anyone interested in fairy tales in literature, film, and art; and for anyone who values the tradition of storytelling.

Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004418997
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences. We are currently witnessing a resurgence of fairy tales and fairy-tale characters and motifs in art and popular culture, as well as an increasing and renewed interest in reinventing and subverting these narratives to adapt them to the expectations and needs of the contemporary public. The collected essays also observe how the influence of academic disciplines like Gender Studies and current literary and cinematic trends play an important part in the revision of fairy-tale plots, characters and themes.

Retelling Cinderella

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527562034
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Retelling Cinderella by : Nicola Darwood

Download or read book Retelling Cinderella written by Nicola Darwood and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinderella’s transformation from a lowly, overlooked servant into a princess who attracts everyone’s gaze has become a powerful trope within many cultures. Inspired by the Cinderella archive of books and collectables at the University of Bedfordshire, the essays in this collection demonstrate how the story remains active in various different societies where social and family relationships are adapting to modern culture. The volume explores the social arenas of dating apps and prom nights, as well as contemporary issues about women’s roles in the home, and gender identity. Cinderella’s cultural translation is seen through the contributors’ international perspectives: from Irish folklore to the Colombian Cenicienta costeña (Cinderella of the coast) and Spanish literary history. Its transdisciplinarity ranges from fashion in Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm’s publications to a comparison of Cinderella and Galatea on film, and essays on British authors Nancy Spain, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Frances Hodgson Burnett.