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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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Picture thinking: the development of visual literacy in young children
… different picturebook retellings of the same fairy story. The use of video allowed the simultaneous recording of the 'full repertoire of modes' described by Kress and others (Barrs' 1988; Kress 1997; Pahl2000; Beame 2003) by capturing non-verbal communication such as gesture, expression and …
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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 …