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“You Have to Set the Story You Know Aside”: Constructions of Youth, Adulthood and Senescence in Cinderella Is Dead [PDF]
Humanities, 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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The influence of fairytales on the development of preschool children [PDF]
BaštinaFairytales 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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Why Contemporary Children and Adults Like Fairytales [PDF]
Etnoantropološki 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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Children’s literature to promote students’ global development and wellbeing [PDF]
Health 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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Strenae, 2021 This chapter focuses on three German picturebook versions of fairytales by the Brothers Grimm which were published in the 21st century. A short introduction provides an overview on the reception and illustration of the Grimms’ fairytales in Germany in ...
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
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‘Firearming’ Fairytales: NRA and Gun Culture in American Fan-Fiction
J-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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Konzept für den digitalen Ausbau der typologisch-vergleichenden Märchenforschung
Zeitschrift 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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Fééries, 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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Cautionary Tale: Stories Made and Distributed through the Internet
MatLit, 2018 This paper explores the journey that experimental texts must undertake as they migrate from other mediated forms of representation to the digital. It will explicitly explore the Internet as the primary context and it will use my first digital text Red ...
Donna Leishman
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Are we there yet? The Disney Princesses’ journeys and gender representation
Syn-Thèses, 2022 Disney princesses have evolved in recent years, as Disney seems to have re-appropriated Campbell’s monomyth of the hero’s journey for heroines. The paper discusses the narratives of Disney’s adapted or original fairytales and links the narratives to ...
Christina Adamou
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