Posts tagged House of Sleeping Beauties
Subverting Sleeping Beauty: How My Year of Rest and Relaxation Deconstructs the “Woman Who Sleeps”
Subverting Sleeping Beauty: How My Year of Rest and Relaxation Deconstructs the “Woman Who Sleeps”

Milena Glicenstein explores the oddly familiar yet unsettling aspects of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, looking at literary influences and the subversion of fairy tale tropes.

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