Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death : ʼn vergelykende analise van die illustrasie van ʼn vermaan-verhaal

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study comprises a comparative visual analysis of three picture books, illustrated bySteven Kellogg, Posy Simmonds and Edward Gorey. The illustrators reinterpret thecautionary tale, Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death by Hilaire Belloc (1908). Notonly does this study present a brief historical overview of the genre but it also interrogates themanner in which different styles of illustration underscore the pedagogical didactic narrative.The visual interpretations of these three illustrators are compared in order to establishwhether or not they have succeeded in sustaining the subversive or grotesque elements of thiscautionary tale. Belloc's narrative as well as the illustrations are analysed in terms of gender.I discuss my own version of Belloc's cautionary tale as a parody of this tale that serves toexaggerate the sometimes overt gendering of girl characters in cautionary tales.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University