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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"fairy-stories"”.
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Recovery, escape and consolation in the secondary worlds of The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories" lays out three essential functions that all good fairy stories should fulfil: recovery, escape, and consolation. To carry out these functions, the fairy story needs to create a believable Secondary World that is separate from the Primary World in which we …
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Eliot through Tolkien: Estrangement, Verse Drama, and the Christian Path in the Modern Era
… theory of fantasy, as outlined in his essay “On Fairy Stories,” serves as the framework for my analysis of three of Eliot’s major plays: Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), and The Cocktail Party (1949). I argue that Eliot finds in verse drama the same capabilities that …
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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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Awakening a World With Words: How J.R.R. Tolkien Uses Linguistic Narrative Techniques to Take His Readers to Faery in His Short Story Smith of Wootton Major.
… is also informed by Tolkien's own ideas of fairy-stories, and as such, it uniquely shows the symbiotic relationship between Tolkien's theories and his narrative art.
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Imagining space and place: the representation of Africa through image and text in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (1889-1910)
… of Africa and Africans in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (1889-1910) considered to be the first global anthologies of fairy tales. Published at the heyday of the British Empire, they presented Africa and Europe alongside each other to the Victorian-era British audience of the time. As an …
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Fictitious Ecology
… the context of J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories,” which identifies seeing the world through two lenses - the Primary world and the Secondary world. From these terms, I navigate the idea of a fictitious ecology, an encapsulated anthropomorphic world governed by the creator’s personal …
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Die Funktion der Atlantis-Rezeption in J. R. R. Tolkiens Númenor zwischen Empirie und Phantasie
… vertiefen, das er in seinem Essay On Fairy-Stories (1938/39) darlegte. Dabei ist insbesondere der von Tolkien formulierte Begriff des Sekundärglaubens von Bedeutung, der sein wirkungsästhetisches Ziel einer immersiven Leseerfahrung beschreibt, welche die Grenzen zwischen Realität und …
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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 …