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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"fairy"”.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fairy shrimp (Anostraca) in the vernal pools of Eastern Washington
… host to rare and endemic species. Anostraca, or fairy shrimp, lay eggs that form dormant drought- and desiccation-tolerant egg banks in the substrate of dry pools and hatch with rehydration. The shrimps act as key indicators of pool quality, but little is known about these organisms, and the …
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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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"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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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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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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