An Unwilling Transformation: “The Frog Prince” as a Revisionist Story
| dc.contributor.author | Mürüvvet Mira PINAR DOLAYKAYA | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-24T09:07:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-24T09:07:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In “The Frog Prince”, published in The New Yorker in 2014, Robert Coover uses the Brothers Grimm’s namesake tale as a backdrop to interrogate and subvert fairy tale conventions specifically with a focus on gender roles. The story dwells on the experiences of its eponymous protagonist not as a prince who is transformed into a frog through evil magic but as a naïve frog which is transformed into a human being against his will. Opening with an anonymous woman’s kiss, Coover’s story probes concepts such as individualism, self, identity, happiness, and belonging through the relationship of the couple. This study reads Robert Coover’s “The Frog Prince” as a revisionist story. It explores Coover’s story as a text which problematizes and revises fairy tales as far-fetched, idealized, and ideological narratives that fail to represent the individual and the individual experience. | |
| dc.identifier.DOI-ID | 10.18026/cbayarsos.1094630 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1304-4796 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/20805 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | An Unwilling Transformation: “The Frog Prince” as a Revisionist Story | |
| dc.type | Araştırma Makalesi |