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Oral fairy tale or literary fake? Investigating the origins of Little Red Riding Hood using phylogenetic network analysis

open access: yesDigital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2016
The evolution of fairy tales often involves complex interactions between oral and literary traditions, which can be difficult to tease apart when investigating their origins. Here, we show how computer-assisted stemmatology can be productively applied to
J. Tehrani, Quan Nguyen, Teemu Roos
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
wiley   +1 more source

\u3ci\u3e\u3cb\u3eElla Enchanted:\u3c/b\u3e\u3c/i\u3e Reclaiming Fairy Tales / Perpetuating Hollywood Standards [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Feminists often denounce traditional fairy tales because they perpetuate the ideals of a patriarchal society by encouraging girls to behave like proper princesses and wait for charming princes to take charge and save the day.
Carbone, Emma
core   +1 more source

Fairy Tale Plots in G. J. Ramstedt’s Records

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article describes the set of plots of Kalmyk fairy tales recorded by the Finnish scholar G. J. Ramstedt in the early 20th century. The phonetically transcribed and published by G. J.
Baira Goryaeva, Alexandra Bayanova
doaj   +1 more source

The Use of Magic and Fairy Tale Dice to Improve Students' Ability in Writing Narrative Text

open access: yes, 2018
This research done at first semester students of English Department Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda aimed at finding out whether or not magic and fairy tale dice can game improve students’ ability in producing a better narrative text.
Arbain Arbain, D. Nur
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disrupting Children's Literature

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter describes the impact that the author's participation in a Disrupting interview had on subsequent iterations of a course in children's literature, focusing in particular on changes to pedagogical practice.
Sharon Smulders
wiley   +1 more source

A Tale of Two Trans Men: Transmasculine Identity and Trauma in Two Fairy-Tale Retellings

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2021
Transgender identities in fairy tale retellings are rare, but can reveal much about gender fluidity. Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird conflates transgender identities with mirrored falsehoods and fairy-tale spells, pathologizing a trauma victim who ...
Jorgensen Jeana
doaj   +1 more source

Specific Items of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Liver Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients: A Systematic Review

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways have been shown to be safe in patients undergoing hepatectomy. Due to cirrhosis‐induced complications, specific or additional perioperative items might need to be implemented. This study systematically reviewed the literature to assess specific items to be included in future ERAS protocol for the ...
Gaëtan‐Romain Joliat   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innocent Initiations: Female Agency in Eroticized Fairy Tales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Bawdy folktales have generated controversy and scholarship for centuries, and their literary, sexually explicit descendants, eroticized fairy tales, are also deserving of attention.
Jorgensen, Jeana
core   +1 more source

Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Northern Ireland's Lough Neagh—the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake—recently hit the headlines owing to an ecological crisis caused by the level of pollutants entering its waters. With political attention drawn to the lough, an emerging idea amongst environmental activists—inspired by the global ‘rights of nature’ (RoN) movement—is ...
Laurence Cooley, Elliott Hill
wiley   +1 more source

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