![]() ![]() I contend that in both cases narrative authority is related to gender and political and familial hierarchies. These chapters take the cinematic narrator into account as a prime mover in directing the ways narrative authority flows. ![]() In the first half of the dissertation I examine the dynamics of narrative authority in two cinematic engagements with the fairy tale. I ask how each of these texts engages with normative and queer desires, and how these desires are represented and narratively produced through an exploration of the textual dynamics of metanarrational comment, narrative framing, and narrative authority. I consider how the relationship of narrator and listener is played out in relation to gendered and sexual subjectivity and the desires that the tales inscribe. All of these texts thematize the act of narration in a variety of ways and to various ends. ![]() ![]() My focus texts include the television mini-series Arabian Nights (1999) the feature length film Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) the collection Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue (1997) and the embedded cycle of stories ―The Story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses‖ in Jeanette Winterson‘s novel Sexing the Cherry (1989). This dissertation contributes to scholarship on contemporary fairy-tale fiction and film by looking at the figures of the storyteller and listener and the act of storytelling itself in a range of texts produced or translated into English within the last thirty years. ![]()
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