Dissertations / Theses: 'Fairy tale'

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Smith, Jacqueline Nichole. "Fairy Tales en pointe: Fairy Brides, Ballerinas, and Ballets that Made the Tale." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8968.

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The relationship between ballet and fairy tale is by no means a new or unique discoveryâ€”to either dance history or literary studies. However, aside from relatively brief mentions of ballets as examples of fairy-tale adaptation, ballet's relevance to fairy-tale studies has been somewhat undervalued. While scholars often relegate ballet to a smaller part in fairy tale's influence through the performing arts, fairy-tale ballet deserves to have its own, independent academic conversation because ballet contributes uniquely to both fairy-tale history and canon. Ballet can be credited with both giving new life to an old tale and creating a brand new one through an amalgamation of formalistic fairy-tale motifs and figuresâ€”particularly when it comes to female figures. Through an analysis of nineteenth-century Romanticism, fairy-tale form, and the narratives created by three of the most famous fairy bride ballets--La Sylphide, Giselle, and Swan Lake--we can distinguish how Romantic ballet affects fairy-tale studies because of the special conditions this "feminized" art placed on narrative and character. The pervasion of the fairy bride character and motif in ballet indicates a potentially unique tale type, and these three fairy brides together reveal a different dimension to our view of female fairy-tale characters by actively shaping their own stories according to Romantic values that place them outside of traditional fairy-tale roles. Thus, fairy-tale ballets significantly substantiate Romantic imagination beyond the bounds of literary form, and therefore both emphasize and nuance the fairy-tale female paradigm by making unique contributions to the fairy-tale canon.

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Krajcovic, Krystal A. "Fairy Tales: A Continual Work in Progress." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494204822838754.

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Ostry, Elaine Margaret. "Social dreaming, Dickens and the fairy tale." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0008/NQ35272.pdf.

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Valley, Madeleine. "Gentle Wolves: Re-Contextualizing Fairy Tale Illustration." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1367427355.

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Gross, Chelsi. "First grade fairy tale thematic unit improving writing /." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2008. http://165.236.235.140/lib/CGross2008.pdf.

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Hasty, Ashley B. Wilson Laurel E. Janke. "Second weddings a new kind of fairy tale /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6659.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 10, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Laurel Wilson. Includes bibliographical references.

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Crosby, Claire Darryl. "The fairy tale on the old Viennese stage." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10950.

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The thesis deals with fairy tales on the Viennese stage and their narrative sources from the beginning of the eighteenth century to 1848. In the introductory chapter a statistical analysis of fairy tales illustrates that while the Viennese were greatly under the influence of fairy tales published in other German-speaking lands, the fairy tale on the Viennese stage did not follow the trends of the fairy tale in German literature. The first of the three main chapters discusses the dramatizations of the oriental fairy tales shown in Vienna. Raimund's Der Diamant des Geisterkönigs is one example. Wieland' s fairy tales provided the Viennese dramatists with a lot of source material, not only of oriental origin, but even of Italian origin too. The second main chapter analyses the sources of Vulpius's Die Saal-Nixe and looks at the different works inspired by this typical Sage der Vorzeit, including Hensler's Das Donauweibchen and Grillparzer's Melusine. The theme of the white deer links these works with the oriental tale about Cheheristany and La donna serpente, an Italian play by Gozzi which provided Raimund with material for Der Verschwender. The third main chapter studies the close interaction of the French and German folk tales in literature and on the Viennesestage. The two examples chosen are the stories about Rübezahl and Fortunatus. Special attention is paid to Musäus who wrote stories about both these folk-tale figures and whose collection of folk tales was a popular source of dramatization. The failure of the Grimm Brothers to inspire Viennese dramatists is contrasted with the success of popular authors, such as Langbein. The conclusion summarizes first the sources of Viennese fairy-tale dramas and secondly the similarities and differences between the fairy tale on the Viennese stage and in German literature. And finally the demise of the fairy tale is examined.

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Doser, M. E., and Edward J. Dwyer. "Fairy Tale Theatre: Encouraging Success for Early Readers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3335.

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Spiccia, Damien. "Film as fairy tale; and, Never-never land." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/686.

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From the earliest days of cinema, filmmakers have mined fairy tales and the messages they contain to provide an accessible visual iconography that observes the salty perils and sweet fortunes of everyday life as we live it. Fairy tales illustrate that becoming a human being is an art in itself, and cinema provides a way of understanding this art using a variety of different approaches and methods, dependent on the audience, the filmmakeras- storyteller’s intent, and the times in which the story is spun and shot. This exegesis is a companion to the creative component of my study, a feature length screenplay entitled Never-Never Land. Never-Never Land is a contemporary film fairy tale set in rural Australia that weaves European fairytale tropes into a story intimately connected with Australian landscape. In so doing, the film references the notion of the ‘Australian Gothic’ (Haltof, 1996, p.12), and the rich history of the film fairytale to date. As an explanation of my intellectual process and creative intent, this exegesis attempts to identify and analyse a number of approaches and methods in fairytale film, citing examples ranging from the cinema of Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney Studios, Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves (1984), to Jan Švankmajer, and the early films of Peter Weir. It also examines the way in which fairytales have maintained cultural currency by adapting to the medium of the times, evolving through oral and written traditions to arrive at cinema, dubbed by Sergei Eisenstein in 1949 as ‘a new epoch in the field of art’ (1977, p. 62). Through this study, and through the themes of the Never-Never Land screenplay, I propose that the most faithful film fairy tales, and those with the greatest cultural resonance, are those which successfully anchor the mysterious world of the fantastic to the identifiable realities of everyday life.

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Persson, Penzer Anna. "Modern Day Fairy Tales : A comparative study between Amy Plum's Die for Me and the Western Fairy Tale Tradition." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-24632.

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Lee, Cheryl. "Fantasy Versus Fairy Tale: How Modern Fairy Tale Variants Measure up to One of the Greatest Literary Traditions of All Time." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/87.

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This thesis will examine both the history of the fairy tale and the modern adaptations of these popular stories in order to illustrate how fairy tales have evolved into their modern counterparts. The implications and circumstances of several recent variants are questioned and compared to a concise definition of the fairy tale. It is determined that, although the modern versions resemble classic fairy tales, they are not a detriment to the tradition of the tales, and may, in fact, begin their own literary tradition.

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Zigman, Jane. "From tales of enchantment to tales of empowerment, finding women's voices through fairy tale narratives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0021/MQ58524.pdf.

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Westerlund, Johanna. "The Brazilian Fairy Tale – The Union Leader Becomes President." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2321.

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Brazilian politics has for a long time been considered an elitist system, dealing with corruption and social inequalities. In 2002 something unimagined happened when the former industrial worker Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was elected President of the Republic of Brazil. This case study examines Lula’s authority role as President by testing the theories Cinderella Complex and Max Weber’s theory of Pure Leadership. It also tries to explain what motivates Lula’s actions and what affect this has on Brazilian politics. The case study reveals that Lula is not driven by any ideology, but is motivated by own personal interests of eliminating hunger and poverty. To realise these wishes he creates alliances in order to get enough support for these policies. Even though his government is designed as a bureaucratic administration, Lula has not proven to use rational ideas to establish new reforms. Instead he is dependent on raising enough support and trust, through his charismatic image. This is visible in his election campaigns. This leadership style has implemented some valuable programmes like the Fome Zero and Bolsa Familia, but his endless travels and commitments abroad joint with his approach to the corruption scandal in 2005 has created a new image of Lula as a negligent person.

This case study is using qualitative methods to explain the leader and President of Brazil.

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Tiffin, Jessica. "Marvellous geometry : narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7963.

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Bibliography: leaves 190-201.
Despite the age of the fairy-tale tradition, and its focus on fairly primitive aspects of human experience, fairy tale is able to adapt itself to a range of cultures and contexts, including numerous examples in the twentieth century. Various authors and film-makers are reasserting the power and value of the fairy tale as a response even to the uncertain and ironic experience of contemporary culture. The suitability of fairy tale to modern texts rests partially in its qualities of inherentmetafictionality, the extent to which it self-consciously denies mimesis. This gives it particular relevance to postmodernism, as does the structuredness which facilitates self-aware play with genre. At the same time, the status of oral fairy tale as a folk form connects interestingly with postmodernism's blurring of the boundaries between high and low culture. This has particular implications for the presence of fairy tale within texts traditionally considered as popular culture, herethe fantasy/science fiction ghetto, and the Hollywood film. This thesis chooses to focus on texts which attempt to write actual fairy tale, rather than those which use fairy-tale motifs thematically. In making this distinction, attention is paid to particular aspects of recognisable fairy-tale texture, that is, overall effect, which relies on elements of pattern, structure, simplification, symbolism, ahistorisicim, the construction of a removed and marvellous world, and a tone of certainty which necessitates a response of accepting wonder in the reader.

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DuGar, Grace A. "Passive and Active Masculinities in Disney’s Fairy Tale Films." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1367849096.

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Brown, C. "White as Snow: Adaptation from Fairy Tale to Film." Thesis, Brown, C. (2016) White as Snow: Adaptation from Fairy Tale to Film. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2016. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/36280/.

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Most research into adaptation studies focuses on comparison between the source text and the filmic adaptation. Conversely, this dissertation looks at the adaptation process in practice, following the process of adapting a fairy tale to the screen from conceptualisation to the final film. To do this, this dissertation examines the generic context of the fairy tale adaptation, the screen-writing process, and the film-making process in order to understand how filmic intertextuality and extratextuality can influence the role the source text plays in a filmic adaptation. This dissertation includes an exegesis, the original fairy tale, the final White as Snow locked script, and the final film, all of which need to be read and understood for the purposes of this study. These elements examine the process of the filmic adaptation of a popular fairy tale, “Little Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm. The significance of this research lies in the practical approach, analysing the adaptation process from the perspective of the film-maker, rather than a simple comparison of the source text and the final product of the film. Examination of the adaptation process from beginning to end reveals the role the source text plays in each step of the adaptive film production process and how that role is influenced by the inter- and extratextual factors which act upon these processes.

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Bražienė, Nijolė. "Pradinių klasių mokinių kūrybingumo ugdymas pasakomis." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20050615_215834-93290.

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This summary shows that the positive improvements of creativity are obtained by broadening and deepening the knowledge of fairy tales of primary school pupils in the theoretical and practical level, and by realization of potentialities rendered by teaching means of Lithuanian language for the develpment of divergent thinking and imagination of pupils and nurturance of sense of humour, emotionality and empathy purposefully employing additional educational activities.

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Oz, Feyza. "The Eu - Turkey Customs Union:a Fairy Tale About Turkish Europeanization." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614233/index.pdf.

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This thesis examines the historical process which led to the signing of the Customs Union Agreement/Decision between the EU and Turkey. For not only is the positive economic impact of the Customs Union on Turkish economy rather questionable, but also it has meant clear political losses for the country as she had to surrender her trade autonomy and gave significant concessions in the Cyprus issue to make the EU approve it. Via the Customs Union which was introduced by Turkish authorities as a stepping stone to the EU membership, Turkey indeed suppressed all industrial custom duties in her trade with the EU and has started implementing EU tariffs in her trade with the third countries, losing in return a significant diplomatic stake to be used in her full membership negotiations with the EU. This study attempts to analyze different perceptions in Turkey over this issue since the 1970s in order to understand why this unfortunate decision was taken without even the approval of the National Assembly. It will finally argue that besides the incumbent Government&rsquo
s short-term electoral expectations, the Customs Union has paved the way for Turkey&rsquo
s one-sided integration to the EU legislation within the chaotic political atmosphere of the 1990s, and hence helped limit the economic, if not the political, policy options of any future government. Thus, the Customs Union was not about trade relations only but ensured a more comprehensive framework for political action that locked in Turkey&rsquo
s policy choices to a neoliberal path in a rapidly changing global and domestic political atmosphere.

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Suvan, Kim M. "Humbling heroines, a ficto-critical investigation of fairy tale motifs." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/MQ31307.pdf.

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Smith, Kevin Paul. "The intertextual use of the fairy tale in postmodern fiction." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2004. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20378/.

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This study investigates the intertextual use of the fairy tale in postmodern fiction. I contend that the fairy tale, whether Grimm, Andersen or Perrault, is an important intertext in many texts considered canonical postmodernist fiction, especially Midnight's Children, Waterland and Nights at the Circus. I demonstrate that the fairy tale is used in novels to raise concerns that Hutcheon and McHale characterise as postmodern: questions about reality and representation, how language affects the way humans perceive the world, and the necessity of storytelling. The study first addresses issues of intertextuality, examining re-tellings of "Bluebeard" specifically. Drawing upon the theories of Genette and Bakhtin, chapter one defines eight elements of intertextuality. John Fowles' The Collector & A.S. Byatt's Babel Tower are closely examined here, as is Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg" and Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard. Chapter two highlights that fairy tale intertexts can create magic realism. A close reading of Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet leads to a discussion of the formal features of magic realism, informed by definitions of that genre from Chanady and Faris. Magic realism is also a theme in chapter three, where the concept of the storyteller is explained. This chapter examines fictions which depict oral narration, including Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Atkinson's Emotionally Weird and notes the storyteller in these texts' similarity to the archetypal storyteller of the Arabian Nights, Scheherazade. Chapter four explains why the process of storytelling is depicted, and highlights the metafictive effects raised by this feature. The final chapter examines how fairy tale revisions can be subversive by looking at how Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad critiques the "classic fairy tale" exemplified by Disney. The conclusion looks at how fairy tale film can be analysed in the same way that I have examined the novel, by briefly studying Shrek and its sequel, and Tim Burton's Big Fish. Informed throughout by contemporary criticism of the fairy tale by Jack Zipes and Marina Warner, this study isolates the different ways fairy tale intertexts are used, and suggests reasons why they are important.

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Назаренко, Олена В`ячеславівна, Елена Вячеславовна Назаренко, Olena Viacheslavivna Nazarenko, V. V. Vitchenko, and M. Cvelich. "Communicative orientation of proper names in English fairy tale discourse." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/47237.

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Fairy tale discourse is an active medium of implementation the specific features of fabulousness category that is verbalized at different levels of linguistic structure. Communication is transferring the content of thought through language [1, 802]. Proper name is an obligatory element of fairy tale discourse. The author not only nominates an object, but also gives information about it, expresses feelings, gives a mark to his character, shows his behavior and habits by using proper names.

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Purol, Faye H. "Rapunzel: the history, distribution and uses of a fairy tale." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1342108106.

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Martins, Maria Cristina. "The use of fairy-tale elements in Margaret Atwood's novels." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1992. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157730.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão
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Margaret Atwood é uma escritora canadense contemporânea que alcançou reconhecimento internacional. Seu trabalho tem sido constantemente objeto de estudo por parte de um grande número de críticos e estudiosos que tem observado a grande preocupação da autora com questões de identidade, tanto do ponto de vista pessoal como nacional, e também com a questão do poder e da opressão. Dentre as várias formas que Margaret Atwood encontrou para expressar sua preocupação com as questões mencionadas acima, vários críticos detectaram o frequente aparecimento de elementos do mundo mágico dos romances e contos de fadas. Usando o conceito de "táticas revisionistas" apresentadas por Rachel Duplessis and Alicia S. Ostriker, o interesse aqui foi exatamente investigar o uso que Atwood faz de elementos de contos de fadas, especialmente para expressar sua preocupação com a questão da identidade feminina, tanto no nível pessoal como no artístico.

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Gagum, Kyung Lee, and Kyung Lee Gagum. "The Manga Boom: The Recent Fairy-Tale Transculturation Between Germany and East Asia." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624539.

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This dissertation critically investigates how German culture is transculturated in Japan and in South Korea and then reproduced in a new form of manga/manhwa. These visual representations are evidence of a long history of German literary transculturation amid Japanese and Korean reading culture. Beginning with moral education materials in the 1880s, I trace the widespread reception of Grimms' fairy tales in East Asia and argue that the success of the translations of the tales was due to the particularly successful fusion of Confucian values with the Western story form. German literature first entered the Japanese reading culture through the Grimms' fairytales as a moral education tool. The reading reception shifted from educational space to private space and Japanese reader began to enjoy the Grimms' fairytales outside of the classroom, which contributed to the spread of German literature. This led to a veritable Grimm boom at the end of the twentieth century, including a corpus of critical analysis by Asian scholars and fairy tale retellings from feminist perspectives that creatively fuse ideas of East and West. The globalization of manga, in turn, contributed to the scholarly discourse in the West, which nourished a rethinking and redeployment of complex borrowing practices between Asian and German literatures. From the impact of Grimms' fairy tales, I trace the reception of the German literature in the Japanese pop literature medium manga and analyze Grimms Manga by the Japanese manga artist Kei Isiyama. Grimms' fairy tales paved the way for the entry of German literature and I investigate Yoko Tawada's works, who writes in Japanese and in German and incorporates fairy tale tropes and the legacy of German romanticism in the age of transnational globalization through her visual descriptive writing. I examine the Japanese author Kouhei Kadono, whose works, I claim, display the romantic themes of the German Romantics and Richard Wagner's nationalistic ideological views of societal changes. I then shift from German literature' influence in Japan to South Korea and I juxtapose the manhwa The Tarot Café with Goethe's Faust to investigate gender roles. After displaying German transculturation in the selected works, I argue that manga contributes to the German classroom as part of a multiliteracies framework in a collegiate language classroom.

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Ashitagawa, Yuko. "Reading and writing the primitive : written oralities and fairy-tale studies." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424170.

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Häkki, M. (Mikael). "The fairy tale Inspirations of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher Short Stories." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201904251538.

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Abstract. This study looks at Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher short stories, and how they are inspired by fairy tales. It focuses on categorizing different kinds of fairy tale inspirations in the stories, as well as analysing if the stories themselves are fairy tales. The short stories looked at here are A Grain of Truth, A Little Sacrifice, and The Last Wish. The methodology behind the study is semiotics, and the study also uses Jones’ (2002) definition of fairy tales as an important resource. The three stories looked at here show different levels of inspiration by fairy tales, and two of them seem to be fairy tales while The Last Wish is more clearly a fantasy story with some fairy-tale elements.

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Peterson, Nancy J. (Nancy Jean). "Fairy Tale Elements in Margaret Atwood's Novels: Breaking the Magic Spell." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500262/.

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This thesis traces Margaret Atwood's uses of three major elements of fairy tales in her novels. Atwood creates a passive, fairy-tale-like heroine, but not for the purpose of showing how passivity wins the prince as in the traditional tale. Atwood also uses the binary system, which provides a moralistic structure in the fairy tale, to show the necessity of moving beyond its rigidity. In addition, Atwood's novels focus on transformation as the breaking of a spell. However, the spell to be broken arises out of the fairy tales themselves, which create unrealistic expectations. Thus, Atwood not only presents these fairy tale elements in a new setting, but she also changes their significance.

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Walmsley, Keith. "Between two worlds : the fairy-tale novels of Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7051.

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Between Two Worlds: The Fairy-Tale Novels of Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman is a thesis devoted to four of the author's novels published during the 1830s and 1840s: Koshchei bessmertnyi (1833), Svetoslavich, vrazhii pitomets (1835), Serdtse i Dumka (1838) and Novyi Emelia, ili Prevrashcheniia (1845). It argues for the typological unity of these works based on their prominent use of fairy-tale structures and motifs, and analyses them against the backdrop of their nineteenth-century context, relating them to the emergence and development of the ‘Romantic fairy tale' as a literary genre throughout Europe and to the philosophical and intellectual environment in which they were written. The thesis thereby seeks to posit these novels as a unique, yet nevertheless organic, response to contemporary aesthetic issues and trends and to challenge dominant perceptions of Vel'tman's fiction as idiosyncratic and unapproachable. The title itself, Between Two Worlds, reflects the two trajectories of investigation that the thesis will endeavour to pursue: the paradigmatic, in an analysis of the interplay of fairy-tale and mimetic elements within the texts, and the diachronic, in viewing how this interplay changes over the course of the novels against the backdrop of the broader aesthetic evolution from Romanticism to Critical Realism in Russian letters. After establishing a typological model for the volshebnaia skazka it will argue that the form is employed in these four works as a discourse of the self, and serves to actualize the relationship between the individual and the world, the ideal and the real. Employing a methodology that draws on various psychoanalytical models it will discuss how, in contemporary theory, the fairy tale can be read symbolically as a discourse of personal development to meaningful interaction with the surrounding world. Subsequently, it will proceed to show how Vel'tman's use of the form in his novelistic creations self-consciously problematizes this basic idea, as the fairy tale is alternately presented as facilitator of, and obstacle to, such growth. It will analyse in particular how these novels suggest different readings of the fairy tale and, through a comparison with other generic systems, different conceptions of its potential truth. Ultimately, it will argue that the ambiguity of the fairy tale in these works stems from its dual status as both symbolic discourse and cultural artefact, and that they are as much ‘novels about fairy tales' as they are ‘fairy-tale novels'.

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Lockwood, Elizabeth. "Trauma and absent parents in fairy tale and fantasy : fairy stories, 'Harry Potter', 'Twilight', and 'His Dark Materials'." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42545.

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This thesis begins with an examination of paradigmatic, classic fairy tales and moves on to the contemporary fiction series of Harry Potter, Twilight and His Dark Materials mapping similarities of content in relation to trauma with specific reference to absent or lost parents. Highlighted in this study are the continuities, parallels and differences of the treatment of trauma and absent parents in these texts, with reference to their structure, content, themes, ideologies and preoccupations. The absence of parents is a recurring theme of fairy tale and fantasy stories, and leads to the creation of new or surrogate family structures such as stepfamilies, extended families and elective families. These new family structures, and the emotional, ethical and cultural tensions arising from them, are critical themes of the texts this thesis examines. The causes of trauma, including abuse, neglect, change, loss, death, violence and related features are mapped and deciphered, noting the similarities across the texts studied. These experiences can cause a person to become psychologically disturbed, with a range of damaging consequences. Obsession, repetition, fragmentation and repression are themes which are mapped across the chosen texts, as is the idea of containment. Also the importance of psychological splitting is uncovered and examined within the stories. Splitting is a very important element of trauma. It can be a survival mechanism, a moment of life change and a way of repressing a traumatic experience, and is often the catalyst for action within the plot. This thesis shows how the characters of these texts have portrayed and dealt with their traumatic affects and examines the traumatic journeys they have undertaken within the plots of these fantastical stories.

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Stewart, Kristy Gilbert. "Blogs, Books, & Breadcrumbs: A Case Study of Transmedial Fairy Tales." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4319.

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Understanding transmedial storytelling is particularly important to fairy-tale studies. Monomedial views have long been unable to account for all of fairy tale tradition. Although the form originated in oral culture, it has long been a liminal, hybrid form that retains aspects of orality even while its principal mode of transference for some time has been something other than face-to-face communication. Transformations and adaptations across different media and contexts has resulted in a system of fairy-tale tradition that is massively intertextual and transmedial. No one medium can claim primary control over the fairy-tale tradition. Throughout time, oral tellings have inspired literary adaptations; literary renditions have influenced oral and theater performances; oral, print, and theater performances have spawned any number of retellings and adaptations within audiovisual media. This case study, investigates one example of adaptation to social media and integration across media: Tim Manley's satirical blog Fairy Tales for Twenty-somethings and his book Alice in Tumblr-land. In Manley's fairy tale creations, we see an instance of what Henry Jenkins calls convergence culture. This convergence should be of particular interest to folklorists because corporate and mass-media systems continue to influence and integrate with existing forms of interaction. Manley's overall narrative approach integrates two media, which permits him to use fairy tales to express a broader range of narrative impulses than would a project tied to only one medium. Media integration is an important concept to recognize and investigate because so many individuals see different media as inherently combative rather than mutually beneficial systems. Just as intertextuality has become a foundational concept in many humanistic studies, intermediality needs to enter the folklorist's discussions as well. With only some media under consideration, we only get some of the message.

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Mason, David Trent. "Childe Rowland : fairy tale to tone poem : an original composition and analysis /." View online View online, 2010. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131576040.pdf.

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Van, Bronswijk Renske. "Enchanted : the fairy tale as meeting place in the late-Victorian period." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411724.

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Rogers, Jane. "Socialisation and subversion : the development of the Victorian children's literary fairy tale." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7961.

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In this dissertation, a socio-historical approach is taken towards the development of the English literary fairy tale as a genre during the 19th Century, particularly in the realm of Children's Literature. For the purposes of examination, the fairy tale of the 19th Century is divided into two sections, fairy tales of the early Victorian period and those of the middle and late Victorian period. It is argued that the fairy tales present in England during the first time period were mostly imported translations from other European countries while the fairy tales of the second time period were the original products of British writers. The tales examined under the first division are those by German brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, (as well as later retellings of their tales) and translations of the tales written by Dutch writer, Hans Christian Andersen. The tales examined under the second division are those written by John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, George MacDonald, Mary de Morgan, Juliana Ewing, Evelyn Sharp and Edith Nesbit. Through the analysis of selected fairy tales, the thesis sets out to show how the development of the English literary fairy tale, during its transition from the one defined period (early Victorian) to the next (middle and late Victorian), reflects the developments that took place within Victorian society at that time. Of particular interest is the changing perception of appropriate gender roles, especially that of the ideal Victorian female. Other contextual and societal elements that are dealt with include developments in the world of science and technology, the changing approach towards the family and the domestic sphere, and Victorian attitudes towards children and children's literature. Critical approaches include feminist readings, sociological approaches (Jack Zipes) and various accounts of Victorian Society.

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Барсук, Тетяна Володимирівна, Татьяна Владимировна Барсук, and Tetiana Volodymyrivna Barsuk. "На просторах казкової ономастики." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17256.

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DeVito, Jeremy E. "The horror of "happily ever after", power, totalitarianism and the fairy tale ideal." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ62342.pdf.

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Jaekel, Kathryn S. "A tale of a "half fairy, half imp" the rape of Jane Eyre /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.

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Keith, Anne Slay. "The Motif of the Fairy-Tale Princess in the Novels of Shelby Hearon." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500688/.

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Shelby Hearon's eight novels--Armadillo in the Grass, The Second Dune, Hannah's House, Now and Another Time, A Prince of a Fellow, Painted Dresses, Afternoon of a Faun, and Group Therapy- -are unified by the theme of the fairy-tale princess and her quest to assert her autonomy and gain self-fulfillment while struggling with marriage, family, and the mother-daughter relationship. This study traces the development of Hearon' s feminist convictions in each of her novels by focusing on the changing quests of her heroines. This analysis of Hearon's novels attests to their lasting literary significance.

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Lane, Tora. "Rendering the Sublime : A Reading of Marina Tsvetaeva's Fairy-Tale Poem The Swain." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Visby : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis ; Eddy.se [distributör], 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-31163.

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Wilén, Rönquist Olof. "The Changing Nature of Female Portrayal : An Analysis of Gender Roles in Fairy Tales." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-37649.

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This essay examines gender normative and patriarchal elements of the popular fairy tale Sleeping Beauty in order to expose how patriarchal ideals are upheld. The reason for this is that children may internalize the values taught in these stories, which may lead to them perpetuating patriarchal ideals and gender normative behavior. The popular version of this fairy tale, made by Disney, follows many of the typical patriarchal ideals with a strong male hero, a wicked female witch and a weak and submissive young female, close to nature. This is contrasted by a modern retelling by Cameron Dokey that is, in many ways, gender subversive and challenges the traditional gender roles and attributes. This essay finds that the version made by Disney is a product of its time, and portrays ideals from that period that could affect children of today into internalizing archaic patriarchal ideals. Dokey’s version is better adapted to the current socio-cultural environment and succeeds in aligning the story with modern values and provides a better option to teach children the actual values and gender roles of our society.
Denna uppsats undersöker könsnormativa och patriarkala element i den populära sagan Törnrosa, för att blottlägga hur patriarkala ideal upprätthålls. Anledningen till detta är att barn kan internalisera de värderingar som lärs ut i dessa sagor, vilket kan leda till att de upprätthåller patriarkala ideal och könsnormativa beteenden. Disneys populära version av sagan följer många av de typiska patriarkala idealen, med en stark manlig hjälte, en ond kvinnlig häxa och en svag och undergiven ung kvinna, som är nära kopplad till naturen. Denna version kontrasteras av en modern återberättelse av sagan skriven av Cameron Dokey som på många sätt utmanar traditionella patriarkala könsnormer och sttribut. Disneys version är en produkt av sin tid, och porträtterar ideal från den tiden som kan påverka dagens barn att internalisera ålderdomliga könsideal. Dokeys version är bättre anpassad till den nuvarande socio-kulturella miljön och lyckas med att justera historian till att bättre passa moderna värderingar, och framstår som ett bättre alternativ för att lära barn vårat samhälles könsroller och värderingar.

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Radujkovic, Tatiana. "The Better To Eat You With: Examining The Importance of Feminism and Matrilineal Relationships for Young Girls Across YA Adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood and "Wolfskinned"." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors155594390271163.

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Hamilton, Scott. "The heroic fairy tale villain: Application of Vladimir Propp's formalist schema to the creation of a revisionist cinematic fairy tale in which the traditional villain is transformed into an anti-hero." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212364/14/Scott_Hamilton_Thesis.pdf.

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This creative practice-led research examines how Vladimir Propp’s formalist structural analysis of Russian fairy tales may be applied to the writing of revisionist cinematic adaptations where the traditional literary villain is transformed into an anti-hero. This was achieved by mapping Propp’s 31 narrative elements to Syd Field’s three-act structural paradigm which resulted in the formulation of a new screenwriting schema that may be used as an alternative to the more established The Hero’s Journey model.

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Яненко, Ярослав Васильович, Ярослав Васильевич Яненко, and Yaroslav Vasylovych Yanenko. "Сюжети казок як основа для сторітеллінгу." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2019. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77228.

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Стаття присвячена з’ясуванню особливостей використання сюжетів казок у якості основи для сторітеллінгу. Подано результати визначення особливостей сюжетів відомих казок та дій головних героїв з точки зору побудови сучасного сторітеллінгу.
The article deals with clarifying the features of using fairy tale plots as a basis for storytelling. It represents the results of determining the features of scenes of famous fairy tales and the actions of the main characters in terms of building a modern storytelling.

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Назаренко, Олена В`ячеславівна, Елена Вячеславовна Назаренко, and Olena Viacheslavivna Nazarenko. "Посмодернізм і казка." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17376.

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Warman, Brittany Browning. "The Fae, the Fairy Tale, and the Gothic Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century British Literature." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534647200683291.

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Halonen, Daniel. "“Too ridiculous to be believed” – an Analysis of Fairy Tale Violence in Roald Dahl’s Children’s Fiction." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194669.

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The aim of this essay is to examine several categories of violence in Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction, with the background of fairy tale theory. Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction has raised criticism, and the grounds of it are reconsidered in this essay. Violence is a declining feature of children’s literature, and the sometimes-excessive use of it in Dahl’s fiction is conspicuous, therefore. If Dahl’s children’s fiction is located in the genre of fairy tales, however, and the violence analysed as a device inherited from this tradition, its function and effect become clear, as shown in this essay. In a study of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), The Witches (1985), and Matilda (1988), I find that violence in Dahl’s fiction has three main effects; cautionary, entertaining, and cathartic effects. I also find that the burlesque quality of violence in Dahl’s work makes the charges of criticism less meaningful.

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Lackan, Ivana. "A Woman's Territory: Female Protagonists in 21st Century Road Movie–Based Fairy Tale Films." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34279.

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This paper closely examines fairy tale films with road movie components, in particular those films featuring female protagonists. The study’s objective is twofold: first, to further develop existing research on the road movie by exploring one of the lesser known constituents of this broad genre and, second, to address gaps in scholarly literature on road movies when it comes to themes in female-led trips and the characterization of travelling females. Through a detailed analysis of the journeys of female characters in recent voyage-oriented fairy tale films—Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan, 2003), Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) and Tangled (Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, 2010)—the investigation shows that these new heroines significantly differ from those of old. Their travels are portrayed as being less difficult, and the traits that they exhibit while on the road, namely fearlessness, rationality and an undying optimism, are rather favourable when compared to those exhibited by former road heroines. Although these protagonists still face characters who wish to impede their movement away from a domestic setting, it is demonstrated that the protagonists are ultimately successful in not only acquiring power in the surroundings that they find themselves in, but also in carrying over their goals and dreams to their own worlds upon their return, privileges that most former road heroines did not have. Ultimately, the study shows that females can be as efficient travellers as males, and in some cases are portrayed as even more competent than their male counterparts.

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Tedman, Alison. "Strategies of pleasure and power : the role of phantasy in the fairy tale film." Thesis, University of Kent, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263746.

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Hou, Hsiow-yu, and 侯秀諭. "The German Fairy Tales:Women in the Fairy Tale - Womens'Fairy Tales." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62019745854480402205.

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Not only children like to read fairy tales, but also adults who even make up the new tales continually. When Prince Charles got married with Diana in 1981, it was an attentiongetter in the world, because it made many peoples' dream come true, that is, the prince and the princess would live a happy life. However, many years passing, the prince and the princess didn't own a happy life, instead of, they hated each other and got a divorce. Especially, Princess Diana, active and self-determination, was very different from the princesses in the fairy tale. Thus, the subject for this research is to discover, how the image of the women in the fairy tale is originated and what kind of problems it incurrs in the real life.

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CHIA-WEI, LIN, and 林家暐. "Fairy tale counter-attacking." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74631004006589913968.

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Clavijo, Ann-Kathrin Ruppert Peter. "Frog kings cultural variants of a fairy tale /." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04122004-182654.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Ruppert, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Aug. 27, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

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