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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Fairy tales"”.
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The use of Grimm's fairy tales to understand the moral content in fairy tales
… understanding of the moral content found in fairy tales based on an afterschool fairy tale story hour presented on a weekly basis for nine weeks. The study included four components: the fairy tale storytelling activity; the dramatisation of the told fairy tale; the interview; and the artistic …
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Fairy Tales: The Dark Side
… examined the portrayal and treatment of women in fairy tales as it relates to the treatment of women in contemporary New Zealand. Fairy tales often reflect the experiences and preoccupations of women, especially women of a marriageable age. Jones’ position is that the way women are viewed and …
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Recovered Voices: Fairy Tales and the Reading Child
… which is genuinely for students, the genre of fairy tales will serve as the selected literature. The field of curriculum studies is concerned with recognizing contexts, and working to understand how these many contexts contribute to the education of children. Located within the field of …
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Revising identification: fairy tales that transform tradition from within
… examines contemporary revisions of four classic fairy tales: “Snow White,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “Bluebeard,” drawing on José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of “disidentification” to describe the revisionary work they perform. Muñoz provides a model of subversion 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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"Old Tales in New Skins": Three Authors Reinvent the Fairy Tales
- - The Grimm's fairy tales are considered to be of the same importance as ancient myth or biblical form. A revision allows for the "original" text to tales' problematic associations with the patriarchal and heteronormative traditions and insist tale adaptations: Anne Sexton's (1971), Olga …
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Imagining Germany: fairy tales by Goethe, Tieck, and the Brothers Grimm
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Cinderella and Other Fairy Tales as Secular Scripture in Contemporary America and Russia
… University, December 2015. Cinderella and Other Fairy Tales as Secular Scripture in Contemporary America and Russia. Major Professor: Charles Ross.</p>
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‘Unpenned’: a collection of responses to fairy tales, together with a critical commentary
… of which draw on and re-present the landscape of fairy tales. Some narratives are visited several times, from the viewpoint of different characters or time frames. The prose moves closer to poetry as the collection progresses, and also becomes more surrealist in nature. The liminality of the …
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The Effect of Sonification in Informal Learning: From Fairy Tales to Art Galleries
… influences the experience of listening to fairy tales, focusing on participants' enjoyment, empathy, and immersion. The second study compared sentiment based sonification with classical music in robot storytelling, evaluating their impact on comprehension, emotional interpretation, and …
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Daoine Sidhe: Celtic Superstitions of Death Within Irish Fairy Tales Featuring the Dullahan and Banshee
… portrayal of the dullahan and banshee in Celtic fairy tales and the connection to cultural beliefs of the Irish peasantry. The dullahan is viewed as a headless horseman that appears to the peasantry when a death occurs, or is known for decapitating people who come across the dullahan's path. The …
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Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore
… British Women Writers' Subversive Use of Fairy Tales and Folklore" focuses on the fictional works of nineteenth-century British women authors, analyzing their use of fairy-tale and folklore motifs to criticize social mores, in particular those surrounding domestic ideology and the …
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What Makes a Woman "Pious and Good": The Function of Several Grimm Brothers' Cautionary Fairy Tales
… explores how several of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, “Little Snow-white and the seven dwarfs,” “The Juniper Tree,” and “Cinderella” exhibit patriarchal expectations of women that fairy tale protagonists strive to uphold, while female villains feel driven to violence and artifice because …
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