Social criticism in traditional legends: Supernatural women in Chinese zhiguai and German Sagen
The literary image of the dangerously powerful woman indicates conflict around women's roles in the cultural milieu that gave rise to the text. This interaction between social reality and literary text is most apparent in a culture's legends. Legends may be briefly defined as narratives de...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1993
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9329608 |