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The Invention of Fairy Tales [PDF]
Journal of American Folklore, 2010 Ruth B. Bottigheimer has contended that a specific literary man invented the fairy-tale genre less than five centuries ago. This article is a critical examination of her claim. It interrogates the axioms underlying Bottigheimer’s proposition, probes the logical consistency of her account, and surveys Bottigheimer’s use of empirical evidence.
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Female Hero-Seekers in Folk Fairy Tales From XIX Century: Feminist Stories for Reading in Education
SAGE Open, 2023 The aim of the paper is to present several fairy tales from Giuseppe Pitrè’s collection as a potentially interesting reading material for children. Since classical fairy tales in some cases depict traditional gender roles, they can present an obstacle to
Dijana Vučković
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The concept of “wisdom” in a Russian fairy tale
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ., 2023 The description of the concepts of the Russian language is impossible without referring to folklore, since it is in this linguocultural layer that it is possible to identify the sources and ways of the formation of the mental characteristics of the ...
Xiaoyan Huo
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Memetics and Cultural Evolution of Grimm’s Fairy Tales in Slovenia (1849-2012)
Knjižnica, 2013 The Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales are a typical example of memetics and cultural evolution. The most known types/motifs/mems in their Children’s and Household Tales (1812) are: Little Red Cap, Little Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, the Wolf
Milena Mileva Blažić
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Role of Lezgin Folk Riddles in the Structure of Everyday Fairy Tales
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021 The article deals with Lezgi folk riddles. They can be a constituent element of many genres of folklore, although they exist in folk art as an independent genre.
Aida R. Gasharova
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The study on Pushkin’s fairy tales in China: history and modernity
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismThe author attempts to systematize and summarize the review works of Chinese philologists devoted to Pushkin’s fairy tales. The history of the translation of Pushkin's fairy tales into Chinese is considered.
Qingle Wang
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How Fairy Tales Educate and Civilize Us: Ethical Literary Criticism on Fairy Tales
Interlitteraria, 2017 This article first discusses the history and ideology of fairy tales. As Walter Benjamin said in his essay “The Storyteller”, rumors and information were spread verbally, from person to person. So were fairy tales.
Li Xiaoyi
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Gyermeknevelés Tudományos Folyóirat, 2022 When adults (or children) want to find really good fairy tale books, doing so is not as simple as it seems. Although bookstores are full of children’s books, only some are worth reading. As a result, potential readers are often helpless since they cannot decide which book to choose or what qualities a good fairy tale should contain.
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Problemy 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
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian 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
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