“Because he’s worth it”: Heroization of the Male Rescuer in Retellings of the “Sleeping Beauty” Tale Typ

Barbara Kaczyńska

doi:10.31648/hip.2598

Published: 2018-12-201

No. 24 (2018)

“Because he’s worth it”: Heroization of the Male Rescuer in Retellings of the “Sleeping Beauty” Tale Typ

Barbara Kaczyńska

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: ARTICLES Representations of masculinity

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.2598

Abstract

The paper discusses some retellings of the “Sleeping Beauty” tale type (ATU 410) ranging from the 14^th to the 21^st century: a chivalric romance, literary fairy tales, and films, both animated and live-action. The analysis focuses on the portrayals of the male rescuer figure. His heroization and idealization seem to be a relatively new addition to the “Sleeping Beauty” myth and constitute a strategy that allows to mitigate the savior-aggressor ambivalence of the character and the violence implicit in the tale.

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retelling, fairy tale, chivalric romance, fairy-tale male hero, male-female dynamics in fairy tales, heroization

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Kaczyńska, B. (2018). “Because he’s worth it”: Heroization of the Male Rescuer in Retellings of the “Sleeping Beauty” Tale Typ. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (24), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.2598

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