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We All Live in Fabletown: Bill Willingham’s Fables—A Fairy-Tale Epic for the 21st Century

open access: yesHumanities, 2016
Bill Willingham’s Fables comic book series and its spin-offs have spanned fourteen years and reinforce that fairy-tale characters are culturally meaningful, adaptable, subversive, and pervasive.
Jason Marc Harris
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Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch

open access: yes, 2020
By the end of the twentieth century, feminist and postmodern criticism had bolstered a literary outburst that presented a challenge to the fairy-tale tradition.
Barros del Río, María Amor
core   +1 more source

Internal Median Formulas of Kalmyk Fairy Tales (Evidence from G. J. Ramstedt’s Records)

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article discusses the traditional formulas of Kalmyk fairy tales. Internal median formulas are determined by corresponding plots and play a significant role in fairy-tale texts defining the main characters and summarizing their most important actions.
B. B. Goryaeva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The fairy tale therapist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Creative Work: The Fairy Tale Therapist:- My original intention was to create a new form of self-help book using fairy tale characters to address psychological problems. The book I wrote does use fairy tale characters to address psychological problems,
Blair, L
core   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

The Autonomy of the Meditative Fairy Tale as a Genre for Children [PDF]

open access: yesSlovenska Literatura, 2017
The presented paper sets a goal to defend the concept of the meditative fairy tale amongst the other existing genres of the literary fairy tale. The introduction includes the description of the contemporary ununified genre classification of literary ...
Gabriela Magalová
doaj  

7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slanting the Holocaust in the Fairy Tale Form: Jean-Claude Grumberg’s The Most Precious of Cargoes

open access: yesHumanities
This article analyzes Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 Holocaust fairy tale, The Most Precious of Cargoes, translated from French. This fairy tale adds to Grumberg’s oeuvre of Holocaust fiction, including plays and children’s stories.
Kristin Rozzell Murray
doaj   +1 more source

Edukacja dziecka ku ponadczasowym wartościom – rozważania na przykładzie współczesnej "Baśni o perle" Anny Gibasiewicz

open access: yesProblemy Wczesnej Edukacji, 2019
Baśń o perle (ang. Fairy tale about a pearl) by Anna Gibasiewicz (2016), is a moving story of heroes, whose fates intertwine in extraordinary circumstances, a tale of transformation and searching for the most important things in life.
Anna Józefowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The selective forces shaping parental care have been studied for over 50 years. While theoretical and experimental work has yielded qualitative progress, the large body of empirical work testing predictions about parental investment based on life‐history trade‐offs has yet to be synthesized.
Rebekah A. McKinnon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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