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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Fairy Tale"”.
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Second weddings : a new kind of fairy tale
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Although most girls look forward to getting married, and the marriage market is a very lucrative business, a sometimes-overlooked market is the remarriage market. This study will look at how Bride Magazine addressed the changing …
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Marvellous geometry : narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale
Despite the age of the fairy-tale tradition, and its focus on fairly primitive aspects of human experience, fairy tale is able to adapt itself to a range of cultures and contexts, including numerous examples in the twentieth century. Various authors and film-makers are reasserting the power and …
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Louisa May Alcott and the Female Fairy Tale (Form, Massachusetts)
… shape many of her fictions: the female-centered fairy tale. Her version of it, appearing repeatedly in her popular children's fictions, features a heroine, frequently orphaned, who either desires something or, less often, is wronged by a villain. Traveling forth to look for her desires, she is …
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
… of East German writer Christa Wolf’s use of fairy tale tropes in her novel Patterns of Childhood, first published in German in 1976 in East Germany as Kindheitsmuster. Wolf uses fairy tale tropes to explore themes that she could not write about openly under East German censorship, which …
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Moving Foward?: Problematic Ideologies in Twenty-First Century Fairy Tale Films
Fairy tales, as a reflection of our values and belief systems, are crucial in shaping and maintaining cultural ideologies. In the twenty-first century, cinematic fairy tales have the unique position of representing such values in an expansive and expeditious manner. Audiences must therefore be …
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Plucking the rose: attitudes toward nature in the modern American fairy tale
This thesis compares modern American fairy tales (hypertexts) with earlier influential fairy stories (hypotexts), in particular those bearing intertextual links to the "Beauty and the Beast" tale type, in order to identify changing American attitudes toward nature and to pinpoint prevailing trends …
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Defining Self Through Symbol: A Psychological Analysis of the Cinderella Fairy Tale
… on the metaphoric material in the Cinderella fairytale as a representation of the individuation process which parallels the symbolic work of art therapy.</p> <p>Both art therapy and fairy tales utilize imagery, the language of the unconscious, to integrate the unconscious with the conscious, …
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Socialisation and subversion : the development of the Victorian children's literary fairy tale
… towards the development of the English literary fairy tale as a genre during the 19th Century, particularly in the realm of Children's Literature. For the purposes of examination, the fairy tale of the 19th Century is divided into two sections, fairy tales of the early Victorian period and those …
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Jane Eyre as an Independent Cinderella. Parallels between the Fairy Tale and the Novel
This essay draws parallels between the fairy tale Cinderella and Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847). At first, the Cinderella motif is examined in detail and its elements explained. The versions referred to are Cendrillon (1697) by Charles Perrault and Cinderella (1812) by Brothers Grimm. …
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Unicorns Are Not Real and Neither Are You: Peter S. Beagle's Postmodern Fairy Tale
… but also read the novel in the context of fairy tale/mythic studies and postmodern theory—specifically through the critical lenses of Bruno Bettelheim, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Barth, and Brian McHale. By simultaneously deconstructing and following fairy tale conventions/tropes, <em>The Last …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
… a historical continuum across Gothic horror, fairy tale discourse, and contemporary fantasy romance, I contend that patriarchal ideology has long constructed women according to a restrictive binary: either silent and compliant, or monstrous and punishable. Drawing on theorists including Jack …
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Apple girl : ingesting and transforming Apple girl from fairy tale into sculpture and performance
… interpretation and transformation of the Italian fairy tale, Apple Girl, into performed sculpture, consists of this document as well as a photographic story-book which illustrates the sculpture component. The sculptured tableaux on wheels, conceived through the properties of carved wood and …
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Race and the Renaissance: The legacy of diversity in Disney fairy-tale and folkloresque film adaptations
… to identify and locate what I term the Disney fairy-tale mode, as well as Disney’s Othering practices, or, how the corporation best handles ‘difference’ by distinguishing it as different to its established canon. The second problematizes the medievalist constructs at the heart of Disney …
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'Little Red Riding Hood' in the 21st Century: adaptation, archetypes, and the appropriation of a fairy tale
… techniques involved in the transposition of the fairy tale from one medium to another, exploring post-2000 adult adaptations and appropriations of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ across a variety of high-art and popular media, such as advertising, video gaming, and fine art, with a focus on literature …
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Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (1870-1920)
… of collecting and compiling folklore and fairy tales was influenced by nineteenth-century ideologies, national identities and linguistic thought by focusing on the works of women writers and folktale collectors in Italy and Ireland. Sharing a mutual interest in reviving the culture and …
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Cyborgs, Wolves, and Aliens, Oh My: Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles and Diversity in YA Fairy Tale Retellings
… a tetralogy of best-selling young adult fairy tale revisions comprised of Cinder (2012), Scarlet (2013), Cress (2014), and Winter (2015). Scholars have expended significant energy defining the fairy tale, tracing its history and development, and analyzing 20th-century adult fairy tale …
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The Youth who went forth to live in a Fairy-Tale: A Märchenforschung analysis of Cornelia Funke's Reckless novels
The impact and popularity of Fairy-Tales (Ger. Märchen) has fascinated literary scholars and researchers for centuries. The study of those tales (Ger. Märchenforschung) covers a wide range from analysing characters and colour symbolism to attempts to find the origins of the oral narratives that …
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Trends in Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Children's Fairy Tales
… in contemporary retellings of children’s fairy tales in regard to gender and sexuality. It opens with a brief history of the fairy tale genre and the foundation of the Western fairy tale canon. I will primarily analyze The Walt Disney Company’s recent films, Brave, Frozen, The Princess and …
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The triumph of the (m)other : the feminine dichotomy in "Sleeping Beauty"
The tale of 'Sleeping Beauty' offers a familiar fairy tale narrative that features a beautiful sleeping princess, a wicked witch and a dashing prince who saves the day. This formulaic narrative has its roots in oral tales that date back to thousands of years ago. The fact that this narrative has …
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