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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Fairytale"”.
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Fairytale Characteristics in Medieval Romances
… and contrived endings seem to belong with the fairytale of the nursery rather than with the serious literature of the adult world. Stylistically, so many romances do little to counter this impression with formulaic words and phrases expressing simplistic emotions and commonplace sentiments. Yet …
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Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation
<p>“Twisting Tales” is a guidebook examining fairytales and the realm of fairytale adaptation. To begin with, I define fairytales by expanding on Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories”. By defining fairytales as abstracted tales set in the realm of Faerie, adaptations of fairytales become an avenue in …
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Batman and the superhero fairytale: deconstructing a revisionist crisis
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Hudební pohádka a její využití v hudební výchově
… diploma thesis deals with phenomenon of musical fairytale and its aplication in Music education process. The thesis is describing a fairytale as a whole genre and shortly outlines a few perspectives from other fields on this genre. The theoretical part describes the concept of a musical …
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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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Locks
… world beyond her experience are relegated to the fairytale mythology of knights and slavering wolves.
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Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions Of National Identity
… of Charlotte Brontë's work.</p> <p>The fairytale allusions and, more particularly, the fairy heroine figure featured in Jane Eyre are excised from Brontë's final novel, Villette (1851). Nor do they survive intact in Jane Eyre's other literary descendants: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's …
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Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks
… I present a subjective Black woman’s fairytale to process interlocking structures of oppression. Centered in the speculative practice of the Black imaginary that creates spaces of both comfort and confrontation, I tell the story of a Black woman who escapes into an alternate reality …
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This is All It Is for Treble Voice and Fixed Media
… or laughing, or characters, such as a storybook fairytale villain. The heaviest influence for the work is the composer’s love of kpop, or Korean pop music, which she desires to bring respect and attention to in modern music studies. The vocal range of the work is most closely aligned with …
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Cry Wolf
… collection also alludes to the Brothers Grimm fairytale, <em>The Little Red Riding Hood. </em>The sections of <em>Cry Wolf </em>include “The Wolf,” which introduces the speaker’s discovery of work-related stalking. The second section, entitled “The Fur,” is where the speaker empowers themselves …
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Speak English, Think Yiddish-- Adaptation versus Assimilation.
… story, "The Little Shoemakers." Singer writes a fairytale view of a magnificent rejuvenation in the new world. Chapters Five and Six explore the realistic portrait of Jewish transplants in the novel, Enemies, A Love Story. Chapter Seven concludes that belief in the Jewish faith, along with the …
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Talk about Texts: Interactional Literacies in Second Language Learning
… German course, during which students adopted a fairytale persona and engaged in interactional activities within a simulated fairytale community. Activities included a hybrid (i.e., online and face-to-face) book club, a public forum, and digital chats during which participants talked with their …
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Whimsyworld
… magical world all around her. Hearkening back to fairytale stories of old, Whimsyworld hopes to reignite the wonder of reading a fantasy story for the first time, while adding contemporary themes and problems, exploring the need for humans to see the wonder in the world even when the mundane is …
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Political fanaticism, alienation and the Trickster archetype in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland
… as a methodological approach to analyze two fairytale films produced at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland (2005). Based on del Toro’s artistic rendering of the Spanish Civil War and Gilliam’s depiction of the …
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Cellular reprogramming in eukaryotes
… phase high-throughput TALE synthesis platform (fairyTALE) capable of producing TALE-nucleases, activators, and repressors that recognize DNA sequences between 14 and 31 bp. It features a highly efficient reaction scheme, a flexible functionalization platform, and fully automated robotic liquid …
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Special relationships: Anglo-American love affairs, courtships and marriages in fiction, 1821-1914
… 30s and 40s, and traces the emergence of the “fairytale” of the American woman who marries into English aristocracy. Part Two places works by Henry James, Burnett, and several other writers in the context of a real-life phenomenon: the plethora of American women who between 1870 and 1914 …
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Wanderlust Reexamined: Analysis of Examples From the Fiction of Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, and Hoffmann
… experienced by the characters in Tieck's fairytale narratives can also be viewed as depictions of emotional encounters or conflicts. Similarly, the travel depicted in Hoffmann's tales tells us something about the emotions of the narrators or the main characters portrayed. Finally, …
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Victorian Children's Book Illustrations
… referenced the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. The fairytale genre has emphasized female roles from its inception, and Lang's and Ford's focus on an essentially English femininity added complexities to messages about the ideal woman. Beatrix Potter’s subversive work can be seen as the culmination of …
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