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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Katherine Mansfield and Germany: Influences, Interactions, Afterlives

ISBN

978-1-03-249419-7

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

207-224

Počet stran knihy

290

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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