“Where had she come from?” The fairy-tale and biblical allusions in Katherine Mansfield’s “A Cup of Tea”

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003393702-15" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003393702-15</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003393702-15" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003393702-15</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“Where had she come from?” The fairy-tale and biblical allusions in Katherine Mansfield’s “A Cup of Tea”
Original language description
In her 2012 article in Katherine Mansfield Studies, Christine Butterworth-McDermott reads “A Cup of Tea” as well as some of Mansfield’s other stories, as employing the motifs from and subverting the tale of Cinderella. This paper argues that the fairy tale connections are even more complex and are linked with the biblical story of the Fall suggested, after all, also in the protagonist’s surname. The mysterious stranger, appearing out of nowhere, asking for a cup of tea could be read as the fairy-tale trope of a disguised fairy coming to test the humans as appearing, for example, in Perrault’s “The Fairy” or, more famously, at the beginning of “The Beauty and the Beast”. The outcome of the test, however, takes on a biblical rather than a fairy tale aspect; the ending of the story heralds the future of insecurity, struggle and sorrow.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Katherine Mansfield and Germany: Influences, Interactions, Afterlives
ISBN
978-1-03-249419-7
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
207-224
Number of pages of the book
290
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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