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An evaluation of Ignác Kúnos’s forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales in terms of values

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to scrutinize Ignác Kúnos ’s Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales in terms of the values that are required to be given directly within the scope of the 6th and 7th grade social studies curriculum.
Bahadır Kılcan
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Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article contributes to the feminist literature that explores the vast landscape of metaphors on the professional experiences and identities of women academics found in scholarly works.
Moratti, Sofia
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Household Fairy Tales of the Kalmyks: an Effort of Research and Classification

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
So far the genre of the Kalmyk household fairy tale has not been a subject of special folklore research despite the generally accepted fact that household fairy tales of the Kalmyks are of exceptionally high artistic merit.
T. G. Basangova
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Les contes médiévaux et les contes de fées modernes

open access: yesFééries, 2010
Medieval tales differed fundamentally from fairy tales, which first emerged in the 1550s in Giovan Francesco Straparola’s Piacevoli Notti. Some motifs that exist in modern fairy tales (shoe, witch) can be found in ancient or medieval tales, but fairy ...
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
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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
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The Thorns of Trauma: Torture, Aftermath, and Healing in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Literature

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
While classical fairy tales do not portray much depth of suffering, many contemporary fairy-tale retellings explore trauma and its aftermath in great detail. This article analyzes depictions of trauma in fairy tales, utilizing as a primary case study the
Jeana Jorgensen
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The concept of “wisdom” in a Russian fairy tale

open access: yesВісник 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)

open access: yesKnjižnica, 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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How Fairy Tales Educate and Civilize Us: Ethical Literary Criticism on Fairy Tales

open access: yesInterlitteraria, 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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Fairy tales or fairy fakes?

open access: yesGyermeknevelés 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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