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“You Have to Set the Story You Know Aside”: Constructions of Youth, Adulthood and Senescence in Cinderella Is Dead [PDF]

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
As with other twenty-first-century rewritings of fairytales, Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron complicates the classic ‘Cinderella’ fairytale narrative popularized by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm for new audiences, queering and race-bending ...
Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Vanessa Joosen
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Children’s literature to promote students’ global development and wellbeing [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Promotion Perspectives, 2020
Background: Tales were transmitted from one generation to another, enriching young people with values, beliefs, imagination and creativity. Children’s literature still plays a crucial part in education as it provides knowledge and entertainment ...
Manuela Pulimeno   +2 more
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An Effective and Playful Way of Practicing Online Motor Proficiency in Preschool Children [PDF]

open access: yesChildren
The children’s fairytale is a playful educational tool that can be modified in such a way to enhance motor proficiency. This study investigated the effect of an online exercise program with modified fairytales on children’s motor proficiency during the ...
Eleanna Adamopoulou   +4 more
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‘Firearming’ Fairytales: NRA and Gun Culture in American Fan-Fiction

open access: yesJ-Lalite, 2022
Gun issue becomes one of the most polemic issues in the United States alongside racism. Regardless, the last major gun control legislation to make it into law was the assault weapons ban in 1994 as part of a larger crime-related bill approved during Bill
Bhakti Satrio Nugroho
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Why Contemporary Children and Adults Like Fairytales

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
The paper is based on field research on parents’ opinions and attitudes toward fairytales. The research was conducted in 2012, using a specially prepared questionnaire.
Žarko Trebješanin   +2 more
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The influence of fairytales on the development of preschool children [PDF]

open access: yesBaština
Fairytales are crucial for children's psychological, moral, social, emotional, and cognitive development. Preschool children encounter numerous problems and their solutions through fairytales.
Kovačević Tamara R.
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Le pouvoir féerique

open access: yesFééries, 2006
Fairy Power : The relationship between fairytales and politics is usually seen as a matter of representation with beautiful queens, powerful princes, problematic legacies and conquered kingdoms. Fairytales certainly deal with such representations, but it
Éric Méchoulan
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Konzept für den digitalen Ausbau der typologisch-vergleichenden Märchenforschung

open access: yesZeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften, 2016
The focus of this contribution is the presentation and discussion of the conceptual design of an XML database of fairytales (expandable to other popular narrative genres) and the required digital infrastructure ...
Elguja Dadunashvili
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'Everyone in the room has a connection to the story': fairytale adaptation in devised theatre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Adapting well-known source texts for live performance lies at the heart of much devised theatre practice and fairytales have proved a rich source of inspiration in this field.
Lilley, Heather
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You can\u27t say no to the Beauty and the Beast : Shrek and ideology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In 2002 the Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that we are living in \u27the post-feminist stage of the debate.\u27 As Anne Summers documents in The End of Equality: Work, Babies and Women\u27s Choices in Twenty-First Century Australia (2003)
McCooey, David, Takolander, Maria
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