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Teasdale, Dion, and d. teasdale@yarraranges vic gov au. "The Goose at Goldie's Milk Bar: The Nature of Human Animal Relationships in Three Modern Literary Fairy Tales." RMIT University. Creative Media, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20071219.100227.
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The Goose at Goldie's Milk Bar is a modern literary fairy tale written in the form of a novel for adult readers. Set in the fictional Australian small country town of Baxters Creek, it tells the story of Goldie Sullivan, an elderly former milk bar proprietor who has an affair with a gigantic cognisant gander. Goldie lives out the back of the town's old milk bar, hiding from the surrounding narrow-minded community, until late one night she witnesses a bolt of lightning strike the bell tower on the nearby church. When she goes to investigate, Goldie finds the body of a large bird buried in the debris and, believing it is an omen, she carries the half-dead bird home on her back. As she rehabilitates the bird, Goldie discovers there is more to the feathered creature than she first thought. The bird, a giant gander blown off course and struck down in the middle of migration, reveals an advanced awareness of humanity and the profound ability to comprehend the sorrow in Goldie's life. Through a shared appreciation of jazz music, Goldie and the goose learn to communicate and a close friendship ensues. Goldie teaches the goose to dance, the pair share baths and the goose moves into Goldie's bedroom. Before too long, Goldie finds herself in the midst of a most indecent affair. Goldie's relationship with the gander unfolds against a backdrop of other unconventional relationships. Kevin Dwyer, the new reporter in town finds himself drawn to the shire maintenance worker, Travis Handley. Real estate agent Alexander Bourke has taken Lynne Fontaine, the chef at the local Chinese restaurant, as his oriental mistress, and recently windowed farmer, Mary Peddley, sets tongues wagging with the one-legged publican, Jack Diamond. The novel uses the human animal narrative to explore the premise that fate is driven by unseen, sometimes magical forces that manifest in inexplicable ways to reveal the hidden truths of people. The writing of the novel has been supported by research conducted for an exegesis titled, The Nature of Human Animal Relationships in Three Modern Literary Fairy Tales. The exegesis identifies and discusses the nature of the central human animal relationships in three novels: Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Peter Hoeg's Woman and the Ape and the writing project, The Goose at Goldie's Milk Bar. The exegesis identifies and discusses the roles and functions the human and animal characters perform in the three novels through a comparative analysis of the narrative theories of early Russian Structuralist, Vladimir Propp. The exegesis also identifies and discusses the types of transformation the human and animal characters undergo, and conducts a comparative analysis of the theories of English academic and fairy tale historian, Jack Zipes. Finally, the exegesis analyses and discusses the multi-dimensional nature of the bonds formed by the human and animal characters and demonstrates how writers of modern literary fairy tales seek to awaken the reader to the possibilities of relationships with animals beyond usual human understanding or experience.
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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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Yashkina, Svetlana. "Modern Fairy Tales: The New Existence of an Old Genre : Exemplified by the Books of Alan A. Milne, Tove Jansson and Eno Raud." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-151238.
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The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre and its transformation. The study is exemplified by two books by Alan A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh (1926-1928), Tove Jansson’s eight books about the Moomintrolls (1945-1970) and Eno Raud’s four books about three funny creatures called “Nakstitrallid” in Estonian (1972-1982). In this thesis, I examine the disputable problem of defining the fairy tale genre in modern literature and refer to the history of the genre and storytelling tradition that have indirectly inspired all three authors in their decision to turn for fairy tale as a genre. Applying the poetical analysis, I argue that these authors contributed to the continuity of fairy tales by creating the link between folkloric heritage, novelistic literary expression and children’s imagination. This study can therefore be considered as topological, however it does not pretend to introduce the complete systematic definition of the genre as the thesis’ format does not allow such in-depth investigation. In the first chapter, ‘Archaic world stimulation in modern fairy tale’, I examine the dominating literary categories that refer to the folk fairy tale intertext: Bakhtin’s concept of ‘chronotope’ – category of time and space, system of fictional allegoric characters and category of fantastic. In the second chapter, ‘Modern fairy tales from perspective of children’s literature’, I analyze the books of Milne, Jansson and Raud in the scope of narratological and aesthetic categories of children’s literature. The folkloric laughter intertextually reproduced by naïvism of the Moomins, the Naksitralls, and Winnie-the-Pooh’s friends, while folkloric collective hero is presented by universal harmony of a happy family and child-like protagonists. I came to the conclusion that poetics of folklore fairy tale still exists in these books through the intertextual dialogue. Modernism as literary method re-evaluates folkloric aspects such as nonlinear time, the blurred boarders between individual and cosmos, material and spirit, text and reality. Every new artistically unique fairy tale world resembles the new stage of the genre development. The more innovative is the story, the more sophisticated can be its poetics.
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Kim, Christine. "Munui (문의): Modern Adaptations of Korean Folk and Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1911.
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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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Rice, Jessica. "Women in Fairy Tales: The Pursuit of a Modern-Day Heroine." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/907.
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This thesis reexamines the purpose of fairy tales throughout history and explores the effectiveness of a modern alternative to classical methods of telling these stories. To increase interactivity as well as the agency of the female protagonist and players themselves, this thesis reimagines the popular classic, Cinderella, as a visual novel.
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Lester, Amanda Jeanne. "The Impact of Traditional and Modern Fairy Tales on Society and Its Individuals." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579255.
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The genre of fairy tales lacks a concrete confinement, allowing its stories to span across age, asserting a variety of themes and captivating a wide range of audience members. The familiarity of such traditional stories, however, sets a precedent for the genre - an ability to assert a lesson and an element of escaped reality. Fairy tales exist even in modern times and reappear in existing and novel ways. Both traditional and modern fairy tales possess an extremely important role in societal expectations, disturbances in human desire, and the ideals/behaviors of individuals, regardless of age. With the use of both traditional and modern day texts, it becomes evident that fairy tales have an overwhelming impact on readers. Their themes, settings, characters, and plots promote relevant expectations and ideals society expects individuals to maintain throughout their life. More importantly, it reveals the innate attraction that readers have toward these works and what that says about humanity. Details from selected works demonstrate these prominent fairy-tale characteristics across mediums (text, film, and life-size attractions) and provide evidence affirming the assertion that fairy tales have an impactful power on the actions and thoughts of individuals and the important themes of society.
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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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Howard, Barbara C. "Modern designs of women's apparel based upon Russian fairy tales and the art work by various Russian illustrators depicting Pre-Empire style of garments." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998howardb.pdf.
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Salgado, Dora Isabel Toscano Ferreira. "Fairy tales, or unfair tails?! : breaking the glass slipper and the need for modern retelings." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2824.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesCinderella was told a whole pea pot full of lies in those days… about Prince Charming and living happily ever after. ~ Thelly Reahm Cinderella é um dos contos de fadas mais célebres de todos os tempos. Mas, até que ponto é que esta personagem é tratada com justiça na terra do muito muito longe?... E quão longe da verdade estão os valores exercidos por estes habitantes sonhadores? O objectivo deste estudo é examinar os retratos injustos realçados no reino do mundo encantado, nomeadamente no tão conhecido conto do sapato perdido – Cinderella. Ao incorporar componentes literárias e práticas, este estudo não só alerta pais e educadores para mensagens prejudiciais presentes neste tipo de contos, como também reforça a necessidade de existência de versões contemporâneas que permitam que esta forma de arte popular permaneça e continue a encantar as crianças, eliminando, ao mesmo tempo, as mensagens injustas que no fundo propaga. ABSTRACT: Cinderella was told a whole pea pot full of lies in those days… about Prince Charming and living happily ever after. ~ Thelly Reahm Cinderella is one of the most renowned fairy tales of all time, but exactly how fair is this maiden portrayed in the land of far away?!…and how far away from the truth are the morals really conveyed by these dreamlike inhabitants? The purpose of this study is to examine the unfair portrayals depicted in the fairy tale realm, especially in the tale of the glass slipper. By incorporating literary and practical components not only does it forewarn parents and educators of the harmful messages it delivers to children, but also highlights the need for contemporary rewritings that allow for this popular art form to thrive and enchant children, while eliminating the unfair messages it ultimately propagates.
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Nurmikko, Terhi. "Telling ancient tales to modern machines : ontological representation of Sumerian literary narratives." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377913/.
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This thesis examines the potential of semantic web technologies to support and complement scholarship in Assyriology. Building on prior research, it is unique in its assessment of the suitability of three existing OWL ontologies (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, FRBRoo and Ontomedia) to adequately capture and represent the heterogeneous and incomplete narratives published as composites by the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Its agenda sits firmly within the interdisciplinary context of the Digital Humanities and Web Science, and it describes a process centered on the development, implementation and valuation of an ontological representation system (mORSuL), designed to reflect the needs, desires, challenges and opportunities of Assyriological research paradigms. Underlying the process are two fundamental assumptions: firstly, that semantic technologies can be used to support academic endeavours in the Humanities, and secondly, that the benefits of doing so can be identified and evaluated. The thesis culminates in the conclusion that these existing ontologies are mostly suitable for the representation of the narrative content of these ancient texts, requiring only a few additions and changes.
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Wasserman, Minke. "'Becoming animal': motifs of hybridity and liminality in fairy tales and selected contemporary artworks." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019759.
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‘Becoming Animal’: Motifs of Hybridity and Liminality in Fairy Tales and Selected Contemporary Artworks serves as a theoretical examination of the concept of the hybrid. My research unpacks the liminal aspect of hybridity, locating the hybrid in the imaginative world of popular fairy tales, folk lore and mythology. In my accompanying MFA exhibition, Becoming(s), I explore these motifs through an installation of mixed-media sculptures which are based on the hybrid creatures that populated the fantasy world of my childhood. The written component of my MFA submission will relate directly to my professional art practise, developing it further and situating it within a relevant context. In my mini-thesis I will consider the liminal in relation to the ‘animal turn’ in contemporary art, with a particular focus on relevant artists working with the motifs of hybridity, such as Nandipha Mntambo, Jane Alexander and Kiki Smith. The ‘animal turn’ is a term used by Kari Weil (2010: 3) to describe a contemporary interest in issues of the nonhuman, and in the ways that the relationship between humans and nonhumans is marked by “difference, otherness and power”. Of key concern to my research will be Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming animal’. Rather than describing a transition from one stable state to another, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a radical dissolution of boundaries – not just between species (such as ‘human’ and ‘animal’) but between any essentialising binaries. As such, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a conception of identity as being fluid and mutable, rather than stable and fixed.
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Sarnyai, Lili. "Figuring 'Sleeping Beauty' : metamorphosis of a literary and cultural trope in European fairy tales and medicine, c. 1350-1700." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2016. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/205/.
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This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach to a recurrent cultural trope: the figure of the sleeping beauty. Sleeping beauties are young women—paradigms of femininity, paragons of virtue and physical perfection—who lose consciousness and become comatose and catatonic, for prolonged periods. In this unnatural state, these female bodies remain intact: materially incorrupt, aesthetically unblemished. Thus can the body of the sleeping beauty be defined as an enigma and a paradox: a nexus of competing and unanswered questions, uniquely worthy of investigation. This thesis examines the metamorphoses of the figure of the sleeping beauty in literature and medicine between c.1350 and 1700 in order to interrogate the enduring aesthetic and epistemological fascination that she exercises in different contexts: her potency to entrance, her capacity to charm, in both literary and philosophical realms. The widespread presence of the sleeping beauty in literature and art, as well as in the broader social sphere, over the centuries, indicates the figure’s important and ongoing cultural role. Central to this role is the figure’s dual nature and functionality. On the one hand, conceptualized as allegories, sleeping beauties act as receptacles for a complex matrix of patriarchal fears, desires and beliefs about the female body in general, and the virgin and maternal bodies in particular. On the other hand, understood as material or bodily entities, sleeping beauties make these same ideological questions incarnate. Sleeping beauties are, therefore, signs, treated as material bodies, a tension which this thesis explores. As such, they are prime subjects for cross-disciplinary correlational study and historicist analysis: vehicles for comparison and dialogue between literature, medicine, and religion on the issues of power and passivity, sexuality and gender difference, mortality and beauty, nature and the unnatural or supernatural. Sleeping beauties negotiate the boundaries of human desire for, and capacity for belief in, miracles and wonders.
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Foehr, Regina Fortune Ron. "Using the simple to teach the complex teaching college students to interpret complex literature and to write literary analysis essays through fairy tales and children's stories /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1989. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9004084.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1989.Title from title page screen, viewed October 19, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Fortune (chair), Patricia Harrington Klass, Glenn Grever, Janice Neuleib, Maurice Scharton. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-163) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Cotta, Maria Amélia de Castro. "Personagens femininas e personagens infantis nos contos de Grimm = um estudo de imagens e relações." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251118.
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Orientador: Ana Luiza Bustamante SmolkaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: O presente estudo tem como propósito analisar as personagens femininas e as personagens infantis no conto Irmãozinho e Irmãzinha (O Gamo Encantado), dos irmãos Grimm, explorando as possíveis relações desse conto com as condições da infância órfã e abandonada na contemporaneidade. A hipótese que sustenta o estudo encontra-se no pressuposto de que os contos, como obra literária, transcendem espaço e tempo de sua produção e, lidos ainda hoje, mobilizam imagens e suscitam debates sobre as possíveis interrelações e sobre as posições e lugares sociais ocupados pela criança e pela mulher na sociedade atual. Para proceder à análise do conto, realizamos leituras de diferentes tradutores, optando pela tradução de Íside Bonini (1961). As ideias de Vigotski e Bakhtin, mais especificamente os conceitos de dialogia e drama, deram suporte teórico às análises realizadas. Os temas que constituem os contos apontam para questões contemporâneas da condição humana, mostram posições e papéis sociais, lugares de poder, relações familiares; deixam entrever concepções de maternidades, de infâncias; circunstâncias como a orfandade, o abandono, os maus tratos. Esses temas encontram-se entrecruzados com a história da infância, mobilizando sentidos sobre a relação assimétrica entre adulto e criança e as complexas relações do cotidiano. Com base nas categorias levantadas, são analisadas as imagens de mulher, mãe, madrasta, maternidade; as condições das crianças: abandono e resistência e os sentidos de abandono e de ser órfão ontem e hoje.
Abstract: This study aims to analyze the female characters and children's characters in Little Brother and Little Sister's tale (The Enchanted Deer), of Grimm's brothers, exploring the possible relations with the conditions of the tale and orphaned and abandoned children in contemporary society. The hypothesis that guides the study is the assumption that the stories, as a literary work, beyond space and time of its production, and still read today, mobilize and raise discussions about the possible interrelations and social positions in places occupied by child and woman in society today. To undertake analysis of the tale, we performed readings of different translators, opting for Iside Bonini's translation (1961). The ideas of Vygotsky and Bakhtin, more specifically the concept of dialogue and drama, gave theoretical support to the analysis performed. The tales themes include issues of contemporary human condition, showing positions and social roles, positions of power, family relations; they suggest ideas of motherhood, childhood and circumstances as orphanhood, abandonment and abuse. These themes have relations with the history of childhood, mobilizing senses about asymmetric relationship between adult, child and the complex everyday life. Based on the raised categories, were analyzed the images of wife, mother, stepmother, maternity, the conditions of children - abandonment and resistance - and the senses of abandonment and orphanhood yesterday and today.
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Blomqvist, Agnes. "Rödluvan i ny framställning : En analys av en modern sagoadaption." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413060.
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This essay seeks to explore the relation between Crimson Bound and the fairy tale from which it derives from. Today, it is common to use fairy tales as a base for new literature, movies and tv-series and therefore it is interesting to study these new additions to our media. By applying Vladimir Propps extensive study of fairy tales to Rosamund Hodges Crimson Bound and the Brothers Grimms Little Red Cap I hope to come to an understanding of the differences and similarities that these two holds. Through this analysis I conclude that Hodges utilizes the functions that Propp states are specific to the fairy tale genre. I also conclude that, although Hodges closely follow the initial structure of Little Red Cap, she deviates from the fairy tale towards the ending. Besides the interesting similarities and the effect of the differences, the roles of the protagonist and the antagonist stands out. Therefore, a portion of this essay delves deeper into how the adaption to the fantasy genre affect these roles as well as how the relationship between then protagonist and antagonist alters due to this.
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Moura, Valter Barros. "Literatura & psicanálise: estudo comparativo sobre a perversidade nos contos de fada, nas obras de Adília Lopes e Paula Rego." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-14022014-111952/.
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O presente estudo tem como objetivo primeiro o da perversidade contida nas paráfrases verbo-visuais dos contos de fada, por meio da análise de algumas das obras da escritora portuguesa Adília Lopes e da artista plástica de origem lusitana Paula Rego. Utilizando de um estudo comparatista embasado principalmente num arcabouço teórico transdisciplinar com a psicanálise freudiana, junguiana e lacaniana, este trabalho procura conceituar o termo perversidade para, posteriormente, demonstrar processos pelos quais determinados textos podem assumir versões cuja perversidade nas relações das personas / personagens são materializadas, em função de diferentes momentos sócio-político-culturais, além de conservarem subjacentes elementos de ordem subjetiva ao dialogarem com seus leitores. A fim de melhor compreensão da nossa análise, expomos sucintamente, parte da base teórica prática de suporte que respondeu a questão: - Quais mecanismos envolveriam o processo analítico e do sentido narrativo engendrados a partir dos textos para interpretar os signos verbais e não verbais? Partindo de um breve estudo entre as obras e suas relações com a sociedade e a política, também este trabalho precisou lançar mão considerações fundamentais do processo de conhecimento: a cognição.The present study aims first study of perversity paraphrases contained in verb-visual fairy tales, through the analysis of some of the works of the Portuguese writer and artist Adília Lopes Plastic origin Lusitanian Paula Rego. Using a comparative study based, especially in a basement theoretical transdisciplinary with Freudian, Jungian and Lacanian, this research seeks to conceptualize the term evil to subsequently demonstrate the processes by which certain texts may take versions whose perversity in relations of personas / characters are materialized due to different moments socio-political-cultural, and retain the underlying elements of subjective order to dialogue with your readers. In order to better understanding of our analysis, we explain briefly the theoretical basis of practical support that answered the question: - What mechanisms involve the analytical process and narrative sense engendered from the texts to interpret the verbal and nonverbal signs? Starting from a brief study of the relationships between the works and their relationship to society and politics, also this work also had to resort to fundamental considerations of process knowledge: cognition.
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Wilkinson, Lorna Christine Rose. ""A blur of potentialities" : the figure of the trickster in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28760.
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This thesis explores the figure of the trickster in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark. By looking at these writers’ treatment of elusive, illusive and allusive characters, the thesis argues that they each incorporated what can be read as “trickster” figures in their fiction as a means of addressing anxieties about art, society and the self. The trickster is a character-type found in narratives from a multitude of cultures and eras, and is typically characterised by his subversive presence, his boundary-crossing and his role as a healer of predicament. While the trickster is often perceived as a universal phenomenon arising from a collective unconscious, this thesis instead focusses on writers’ intentional inclusion of trickster characters in literature as a way of thinking through specific problems. Bowen, it will be shown, interpolated tricksy characters drawn from myth and fairy-tale into her fiction in order to expose a perceived rift between art and academia; Taylor used the trickster to think about the construction of identity in post-war Britain; Murdoch took models from Shakespeare to create tricksters that helped her explore the ethics of writing fiction; and Spark’s tricksters allowed her to conceptualise truth and lies, and good and evil. Concentrating on four mid-century writers whose works have been seen to vary in genre and style, this thesis demonstrates that a trickster paradigm emerged in mid-twentieth-century British fiction – a period not previously associated with the trickster. Influenced by converging strands of trickery and allusion in art through the early decades of the twentieth century, notable mid-century British writers used outsider characters to probe social and artistic shifts in a landscape fractured by war and to reach for a sense of healing. By identifying such characters as trickster figures, this thesis sheds new light on patterns of subversion, healing and character in mid-century fiction. It explores the particular affinity the trickster had with women’s writing, and illustrates how the trickster was important to twentieth-century concerns surrounding metafiction and the role of the reader.
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Mourão, Mônica Assunção. "Leitura, linguagem e letramento: o conto de fadas no ensino fundamental." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2015. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/4822.
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O presente estudo procurou identificar como ocorre o letramento literário de alunos dos anos iniciais, do ensino fundamental. Para isso foi realizada uma pesquisa em uma turma de 5º ano de uma escola da rede pública municipal em Imperatriz, Maranhão. Na fundamentação teórica foi indispensável a concepção teórica de autores como Vygotsky (1988), Bakhtin (1995, 1997), Bettelheim (2002), Bronckart (2006), Schneuwly e Dolz (2004), Soares (2004, 2009, 2011), Rojo (2008), Guimarães e Kersch (2012), Marcuschi (2008), Cosson (2012), e Mota-Roth (2011) entre outros, pois trazem ao centro das atuais discussões o papel da Linguística Aplicada em relação ao entendimento que se tem sobre os gêneros textuais e letramento.A base deste estudo encontra-se justamente no processo intitulado, na altura dos anos 80, como letramento, ou seja, um olhar direcionado não apenas para a aquisição do ler e do escrever, mas também para o desenvolvimento do indivíduo enquanto ser social, inserido em uma sociedade letrada que faz uso da linguagem em diversos contextos, com inúmeras finalidades e com objetivos específicos.A pesquisa se configura como qualitativa interpretativa, com aspectos da pesquisa ação e, além da observação, teve-se como instrumentos entrevistas semiestruturadas, diário de campo e produções de alunos. O trabalho girou em torno do gênero contos de fadas. Os dados revelaram que houve um letramento literário apesar de ser pouco presente em sala de aula. Dessa forma, pode-se dizer que o letramento literário pode ocorrer desde os anos iniciais de escolarização, apesar dos obstáculos de acesso aos livros, que, principalmente, as escolas periféricas enfrentam. Percebeu-se também que, se o trabalho com o texto literário for mais dinâmico e sistematizado, os resultados alcançados podem ser bastante significativos para o processo de desenvolvimento da escrita e da leitura. As oficinas de letramento literário aplicadas pela pesquisadora deram margem a tal afirmação, pois o interesse da turma sempre foi algo presente no decorrer das aulas de Língua Portuguesa, Literatura e Produção textual, mas seria necessário um maior número delas para se avançar nessa questão.
This present study aimed to identify how the literary literacy of the students of the early elementary school occurs. For this the research was carried out in a class of 5th year of a public municipal school in Imperatriz, Maranhão. In the theoretical foundation was indispensable the theoretical conception of authors such as Vygotsky (1988), Bakhtin (1995, 1997), Bettelheim (2002), Bronckart (2006), Schneuwly and Dolz (2004), Soares (2004, 2009, 2011), Rojo (2008) , Guimarães and Kersch (2012), Marcuschi (2008), Cosson (2012), and Mota-Roth (2011) among others, as they bring to the center of the current discussions the role of the Applied Linguistics in relation to the understanding we have about genres and literacy. The basis of this study is just up the process entitled, at the time of the 80’s, such as literacy, so, a directed look not only to the reading and writing acquisition, but also to the development of the individual as a social being, inserted in a literacy society which makes use of the language in different contexts, with innumerous purposes and specific objectives. The research is configured with the interpretative qualitative aspects of the action and, beyond the observation, it was taken as the instruments the semi-structured interview and the dairy field. The data revealed that there was the literary literacy even though was not enough in the classroom. Thus, it can be said that the literary literacy can occurs since the early years of schooling, despite of the obstacles that mainly the peripheral schools face. It was also realized that, if the work with the literary text is more dynamic and systematic, the results achieved can be quite significant to the process of development of writing and reading. The literary literacy workshop applied by the researcher gave rise to such claim, because the interest of the class was always something present during the classes of Portuguese, Literature and Textual Production, but it takes a greater number of them to move forward on this issue.
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Ramos, Samira dos Santos. "Entre a espera e a jornada: as representações do feminino na literatura infantil brasileira como metáfora social." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-31032017-093301/.
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A presente dissertação está inserida na área de Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa e tem como objetivo constatar que elementos literários permitem a contribuição da Literatura Infantil para a formação de espírito sobre o feminino em determinada época, em obras que se apropriam do conto popular Forma literária legitimada como transmissora de valores para desenvolver a consciência crítica do leitor, através do questionamento, validação e de divulgação de novas proposições de valores. Para tanto, realizou-se uma análise comparativa de obras que tinham como protagonista a figura de uma jovem princesa que se preparava para a vida adulta através de uma jornada em busca da própria identidade. Os corpora são A rainha e as irmãs, conto popular recolhido por Câmara Cascudo presente na obra Contos Tradicionais do Brasil (1955), Procurando Firme (1984) de Ruth Rocha e Uma, duas, três princesas (2013) de Ana Maria Machado. Para dar suporte à análise, verificamos teorias que justificassem afirmar que a função social, a linguagem, a ética interna e a possibilidade de atualização do conto popular o configuram como um texto que, legitimado pela comunidade que o recebe, torna possível a transmissão de valores abstratos. Para entender como a literatura infantil se apropriou do conto popular, investigamos as relações entre a mentalidade do homem primitivo e da criança e suas aproximações quanto à percepção da realidade. Situamos as obras em um contexto histórico-social, problematizando a literatura infantil em meio às mudanças de paradigmas e mentalidade em nossa sociedade, que terminam por influenciar na representação do feminino. Os valores considerados femininos foram abordados em perspectiva histórica e do estudo de gêneros. Justificamos a escolha das obras investigando as relações entre a saga do herói e os ritos masculinos e femininos de iniciação à vida adulta, com intenção de compreender em qual medida essa jornada pode ser considerada uma metáfora da condição humana. Apresentamos e comentamos um panorama de obras do século XX no Brasil em que há a figura da princesa. Na análise dos corpora, comparamos as relações entre a figura da princesa e a família, a preparação para a jornada e os aspectos valorizados em cada jornada. Consideramos que as narrativas acompanham o discurso sobre o feminino em cada época e projetam-se sobre a prática da geração seguinte, transpondo a representação da mulher como um indivíduo para transfigurar-se em uma metáfora da condição feminina na sociedade.This dissertation of master degree is inserted in Comparative Studies of Portuguese Language Literature and aims to see some literary elements that can contribute to Children\'s Literature participate of the formation of mentality about female at each time, in works where there is the appropriation of folktales as a kind of literature legitimized by a people to pass some values to develop a critical awareness of the reader, through questioning, validation and dissemination of new values. Therefore, a comparative analysis was carried out works which had as protagonist the figure of a young princess who was preparing herself to the adult life through a journey in search of their own identity. The corpora consists of A rainha e as irmãs, folktale collected by Cascudo present in the work Contos Tradicionais do Brasil (1955), Procurando Firme (1984), by Ruth Rocha and Uma, duas, três princesas (2013), by Ana Maria Machado. To support the analysis, we find theories that justify affirm that the social function, the language, the internal ethics and the upgradeability of the folktale configure it as a text, which if legitimized by the community that receives, makes possible the transmission of abstract values. To understand how children\'s literature has appropriated the folktale, we investigated the relationship between the mentality of primitive man and child and their approaches regarding the perception of reality. The works were situated in a socio-historical context, discussing children\'s literature amid the paradigms and mentality changes in our society, which ultimately influence the female representation. The values considered female gender were approached in historical perspective and of the study of genres. We justified the choice of works investigating the relationship between the hero\'s journey and the male and female in the rites of initiation into adulthood, with intent to understand to what extent this journey can be considered a metaphor for the human condition. Were presented and commented an overview of works of the twentieth century in Brazil in which there is the figure of the princess. In corpora analysis, were compared the relationships between the figure of the princess and the family, the preparing for the journey and the aspects valued on each journey. We believe that the narrative follows the discourse on women in each time and are projected on the practice of the next generation, transposes the representation of women as an individual for transfigure into a metaphor of the women\'s status in society.
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Menezes, Meiryelle Paixão. "Caderno de leitura literária : a recepção pelo olhar de gênero." Pós-Graduação Profissional em Letras, 2015. http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/7924.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPESThis Work Course Completion (TCF) is composed of a dissertation and part of an educational notebook with literary workshops. The goal was to develop a practice of literary reading focused on the interpretation of youth tales through the eyes of gender studies. For this, a focused search for the reading and interpretation of literary texts in the school environment emphasizing a reflection on the gender representation of the princes and princesses of folktales was applied. Such research was carried out in a state school from Sergipe with 6th grade students and intended to reduce the gender bias that is still part of the relations between boys and girls, who repeated sexist and macho patterns came from the male domination. The reading lessons of literary texts were aimed at the exploration of gender issues in the imagination of fairy tales. These relationships are based on the common sense to the repetition of prejudice against women. In this context, a job offer with reading workshops of literary tales “Entre a espada e a rosa”, “A moça tecelã” and “Como um colar” by Marina Colasanti was applied, in order to improve the reading levels of / the students and make them aware of the gender discrimination at school. After the various stages of this research, it was proposed the literary reading Notebook: receiving genre for elementary school as a teaching material built from that experience. Methodologically, the research application was divided into four stages: 1 - the formation of the reader, which was discussed by the perspective of U. Eco; 2 - the Reading methods A. Rouxel, Aguiar and Bordini and C. Gomes; 3 - the gender approach by the perspective of P. Bourdieu, G. and E. Laurel Xavier; and 4 - the data analysis. During these workshops, a data collection was made about the reading and discussion of the differences between male and female identities in receiving the wonderful tales. After the implementation of reading workshops, there was the construction of the literary reading book that summarizes the main stages of the approach developed in this research. With this book, we hope to contribute to the formation of readers and critics in order to raise awareness of the students with regard to gender discrimination, and form a more just and egalitarian society.
Este Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (TCF) está composto de uma parte dissertativa e de um caderno pedagógico com oficinas literárias. O objetivo foi desenvolver uma prática de leitura literária voltada para a interpretação de contos infantojuvenis pelo olhar dos estudos de gênero. Para isso, foi aplicada uma pesquisa voltada para a leitura e a interpretação de textos literários no espaço escolar com ênfase para uma reflexão acerca da representação de gênero dos príncipes e princesas dos contos tradicionais. Tal pesquisa foi realizada em uma escola da Rede Estadual de Sergipe com alunos/as de uma turma de 6º Ano e pretendeu reduzir o preconceito de gênero que ainda faz parte das relações entre garotos e garotas, os quais repetem padrões sexistas e machistas próprios da dominação masculina. As aulas de leitura dos textos literários foram voltadas para a exploração das questões de gênero no imaginário dos contos de fadas. Essas relações partem do senso comum para a repetição de preconceitos contra a mulher. Nesse contexto, foi aplicada uma proposta de trabalho com oficinas de leitura dos contos literários “Entre a espada e a rosa”, “A moça tecelã” e “Como um colar”, de Marina Colasanti, no intuito melhorar os níveis de leitura dos/as estudantes e conscientizá-los/as no tocante à discriminação de gênero na escola. Após as diversas etapas desta pesquisa, propôs-se o Caderno de leitura literária: a recepção de gênero para o ensino fundamental como um material didático construído a partir dessa experiência. Metodologicamente, dividiu-se a aplicação da pesquisa em quatro momentos: 1 – a formação do/a leitor/a, que foi debatido pela perspectiva de U. Eco; 2 – os métodos de leitura de A. Rouxel, Aguiar e Bordini e C. Gomes; 3 – a abordagem de gênero pela perspectiva de P. Bourdieu, G. Louro e E. Xavier; e 4 – a análise dos dados. Durante essas oficinas, foi feita uma coleta de dados acerca da leitura e do debate sobre as diferenças entre as identidades masculina e feminina na recepção dos contos maravilhosos. Após a aplicação das oficinas de leitura, passou-se à construção do referido caderno de leitura literária que sintetiza as principais etapas da abordagem desenvolvida nesta pesquisa. Com este caderno, espera-se contribuir para a formação de leitores/as críticos/as no intuito de conscientizar os/as discentes com relação à discriminação de gênero, objetivando formar uma sociedade mais justa e igualitária.
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Hultsch, Anne. "Rote Märchen in Schwarz-Weiß." De Gruyter, 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A38607.
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In 1950 Pavel Kohout published under the title O černém a bílém [‘About the black and the white’] a book of fairy tales, which appeared in 1953 in East Germany under the title Dreizehn rote Rosen [‘Thirteen red roses’]. If one can still recognize elements of (literary) fairy tales in the original agitative text, these are largely obliterated in the translation. The fairy tales lose the elements that marked them as fairy tales. In East Germany, the early Soviet fairy tale criticism, which had lost its sharpness at the Soviet Writers’ Congress in 1934, is taken over, while in Czechoslovakia it is still represented only by orthodox criticism.
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Jeffery, Thomas Carnegie. "The location of meaning in the postmodernist literary text: a reading of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and related material." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002238.
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In House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski has produced a text which epitomises the traits and concerns of postmodernist literature. Through his attention to aspects such as metafiction, intertextuality and parody, Danielewski develops a narrative structure which is best understood as a literary labyrinth. It is a structure intended to reflect the social conditions of the twenty-first century and comment on the experience of people living at this time. Some of the meaning-making strategies within the book’s labyrinthine structure are thus discussed in detail in order to demonstrate the relevance and importance of House of Leaves as social commentary. House of Leaves is an exemplary postmodernist text, but it is also one that seeks to guide the reader beyond the intellectual impasse of the postmodernist paradigm toward a renewed ethical and political engagement with the world. One of the most important goals of both Danielewski’s novel and this thesis is to attempt to redefine the postmodernist perspective in such a way as to insist on the necessity of what I call a new realism. This is founded upon an awareness of the pervasiveness of the self-perpetuating ideology of capitalism, even in the perspective of postmodernism (which purports to subvert all authoritative ideologies). Playing a crucial role in perpetuating the status quo of capitalism is the growth of entertainment culture, which works to sideline crucial political issues by replacing information with infotainment. The result is an intensification of the processes of commodification. Such an intensification, it is argued, may be countered by a radical scepticism which draws upon the methods and insights of contemporary science.
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Wittmann, Gerda-Elisabeth. "Aschenputtel und ihre Schwestern : Frauenfiguren im Marchen : eine Kontrastierung des Grimmschen Aschenputtel von 1857 mit Aschenputtelerzählungen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2145.
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Thesis (MA (Modern Foreign Languages))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.It has been widely assumed that the portrayal of women in fairytales subscribes to somewhat outdated and stereotypical modes of representation. Upon closer inspection however, it can be seen that this is a fallacious assumption and that the female roles in these stories are much more multidimensional in nature. One of the most popular fairytales from the Grimm Brothers is Cinderella. The portrayal of women in this story is typical of the weak, subjected woman who needs to be rescued by the prince from her unfavourable and subjugated position. The research presented here aims to show that the Grimm’s specific depiction of Cinderella in the 19th century provides an alternative to the modern myth. Here, she reacts strongly and independently to find the most advantageous resolution to her problematic subject position. To this end the Grimms’ version will be compared to text and filmic versions from the 20th and 21st centuries. By comparing aspects of female representation in the Cinderella-themed portrayals, one can evaluate the extent to which societal expectations have altered over time as well as investigating the modern-day implications of this.
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Pooley, William George. "'Misery in the moorlands' : lived bodies in the Landes de Gascogne, 1870-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aacf3b35-fc90-4a75-a24b-5193bc8f6c5e.
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This thesis explores the embodied experiences of the rural population in nineteenth-century France. The prevailing historiography has treated rural bodily culture as a cultural survival swept away by ‘modernisation’ in the nineteenth century. By turning to the lives and words of rural labourers and artisans from the Landes de Gascogne, the thesis questions this account, instead showing ways that popular cultures of the body were flexible traditions, adapted by individuals to meet new needs. It does so through a close focus on the stories, songs, and other oral traditions collected by Félix Arnaudin (1844-1921) in the Grande-Lande between around 1870 and 1914. The thesis focuses on the lives of a few of Arnaudin’s 759 folklore informants, showing both how their bodily experiences were changing during this period, and how songs and stories were creative interventions, designed to shape bodily possibilities from below. The thesis draws attention to the surprising shape of rural experiences of the body, which focused on body parts such as the legs and skin for reasons specific to everyday life, while largely ignoring issues that historians might have assumed would be important, such as religion. It argues that the ordinary men and women who performed stories and sang songs were active agents in constructing their own bodies in response to material conditions of physical illness and disability, as well as a changing environment, changing class relations, or changing sexual norms in the Grande-Lande. The thesis presents an emotional and experiential view of rural bodies with a sensitivity to the different experiences of men and women, young and old, poorer and richer, but emphasizes that the body must be seen in the round, as a unifying concern that links together issues of social class, environmental change, sexual relations, work, disability, and religion.
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Marković, Ana. "La identidad femenina y las relaciones de poder en los relatos de Luisa Valenzuela." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/116768.
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La presente tesis aborda el tema de la identidad femenina y las relaciones de poder que la determinan en los relatos de Luisa Valenzuela. Se analizan dos grupos de relatos de la autora que subvierten los modelos dominantes y opresivos de la feminidad. El primer grupo abarca las reescrituras de los cuentos de hadas, mientras el segundo trata la construcción de la feminidad en el ambiente de la última dictadura militar argentina. Los dos grupos de relatos presentan una suerte de crítica respecto a la formación discursiva de la mujer como sujeto.
La tesis presenta en los capítulos introductorios varios problemas teóricos que se reflejan en la obra ensayística y narrativa de Valenzuela. Se analizan las relaciones entre el posmodernismo, el posestructuralismo y el feminismo, especialmente en lo que concierne al problema del sujeto femenino. También se presentan las teorías de Luce Irigaray y Hélène Cixous sobre la escritura femenina que guardan muchas similitudes con las de Valenzuela. Estas autoras realizan ante todo el análisis deconstructivo del discurso psicoanalítico sobre la sexualidad femenina y la señalan como el lugar de la represión discursiva falocéntrica, pero también como el instrumento de la conquista de la libertad. Las dos teorizan sobre un lenguaje femenino, a veces fundándose en ciertas ideas esencialistas sobre la identidad femenina.
El concepto clave en la poética de Valenzuela es el de “escribir con el cuerpo”. Valenzuela se reafirma en la existencia de una escritura específicamente femenina, que tiene su origen en una sexualidad y experiencia históricas únicas de la mujer. Escribir con el cuerpo significa oponerse a la unión del logos con la cultura falocéntrica, hablar desde una posición de marginalización de las mujeres en la cultura y la sociedad patriarcales.
Los cuentos de hadas de Perrault y de los hermanos Grimm representan un tipo de discurso marcadamente falocéntrico y las reescrituras de la autora sirven para deconstruir la arbitrariedad sociocultural que está en base de los textos que pretenden presentarse como transcendentales y cercanos a la mitología, el folklore y los contenidos universales de la psique humana. Se trata de la crítica de los modos más sutiles de la normativización del sujeto femenino a través de las ideas de la belleza, la virtud, la humildad y la pasividad de las heroínas, en contraste con las brujas y las madrastras. Las rescrituras de Valenzuela devuelven la voz narrativa a las heroínas y subvierten las dicotomías entre las construcciones normativas y estigmatizadas de la feminidad.
Los relatos que tratan la vida de las mujeres bajo la dictadura militar argentina comparten algunas características importantes con las reescrituras de los cuentos de hadas, pero también presentan diferencias importantes que exigen otro tipo de análisis y una contextualización sociohistórica adicional. El libro de Diane Taylor, Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s “Dirty War”, analiza las estrategias discursivas y performativas de la propaganda oficial del régimen dictatorial a partir de las ideas posestructuralistas y proporciona instrumentos críticos muy importantes para acercarse a este grupo de relatos. Taylor demuestra de qué manera los discursos y las prácticas autoritarias militares participaron en la construcción simbólica de la feminidad. El “relato maestro” de la dictadura argentina exhibe características más siniestras que los cuentos de hadas, puesto que presenta a las mujeres no sumisas como un Otro deshumanizado, lo que justifica los castigos más brutales.
Los dos grupos de relatos analizados en la tesis expanden la idea de la identidad femenina más allá de su construcción dominante. La liberación femenina se persigue principalmente a través de la reapropiación del lenguaje; las heroínas toman la voz narrativa para oponerse a las narraciones canónicas que crean y oprimen a los sujetos femeninos. Valenzuela no propone ningún modelo hegemónico de la feminidad, más bien quiere ampliar el horizonte de las posibilidades para la mujer a través de la subversión de los discursos y las estructuras sociales dominantes.This thesis attempts to analyze from a feminist perspective the concept of female identity and the depiction of power relations in selected stories of the Argentinian writer Luisa Valenzuela. The study aims to show in which ways the author subverts oppressive models of femininity created in canonical fairy tales which she is rewriting, as well as the manner in which some of her stories denounce the construction of femininity during the last Argentinian dictatorship. In her essays, Luisa Valenzuela has developed a theory about the specificity of women’s writing and the role of a woman in subversion of existing social, cultural and political orders. I tried to establish a theoretical framework about female identity with regard to poststructuralist theories of the subject and their relations to feminism. I also presented the ideas of French feminists, Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous, about women’s writing and female desire which bear a strong resemblance to the ideas developed by Valenzuela. Moving between poststructuralism and essentialism, Valenzuela’s poetics and politics propose the idea of a woman as a privileged subject of social change, deriving the strength from her historical oppression. She is thus able to reinvent her identity in a freer manner than a man, and even able to access the obscure knowledge, suppressed by the dominant, falogocentric culture. In her rewritings of fairy tales, Valenzuela tries to subvert the traditional discourse about femininity. The tales of Perrault and Grimm created the normative model of femininity, in accordance with the social conception of appropriate women’s behavior of their time. As such, this literary tradition is reflecting and further establishing the patriarchal oppression of women. The traditional heroines of fairy tales have no voice of their own, are submissive, passive and obedient, their primary ambition being to get married. The narrative voice is omniscient, and the very specific, falocentric view is presented as a universal, objective truth. Valenzuela’s rewritings give voice back to women, subvert the dichotomies between normative and stigmatized constructions of femininity, and give agency and autonomy to the heroines who take charge of their destinies. Valenzuela also subverts dominant discourses of femininity in her stories about the ultimate Argentinian dictatorship. The grand narrative of the dictatorial regime constructs femininity as fragile and submissive. These stories describe physical abuse in conjunction with symbolic acts of gendered oppression and as such exhibit more obvious modes of control of women and their bodies and identities, but also denounce the more subtle, discursive and performative ways by which the regime enforces femininity to their political enemies as a means of degrading them. The question of female sexuality and of writing with the body obtains special meaning in this sociohistorical context. The bodies that write are to be interpreted as tortured, abused and stigmatized bodies and are conceptualized as parts of discursive and performative reality rather than natural bodies who try to subvert the system by their connection with mythical or ahistorical essence. The two groups of stories analyzed in the thesis subvert the dominant, falogocentric discourses of femininity and expand the idea of a female identity beyond its canonical production. The main proposition of Valenzuela’s stories is reappropriation of female language, primarily by giving the narrative voice to the heroines who challenge the traditional and dominant narratives by which the female subjects are constructed and subjugated. She does not aim to create any hegemonic model of femininity but rather to question the existing social structures and discourses which stand on a woman’s way to liberation.
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Pontes, Newton de Castro. "Formas inacabadas: a questão da romancização em textos de Clarice Lispector e Tennessee Williams." Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2010. http://tede.bc.uepb.edu.br/tede/jspui/handle/tede/1767.
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This paper considers the feasibility of applying the concepts of unfinished forms and romancization (proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin) to two literary forms (the modern short story and [modern] drama in one act), as well to verify the usefulness of the concept to the analysis of works of modern authors that are framed in these forms - in our case, the short stories, Onde estivestes de noite and Seco estudo de cavalos , by Clarice Lispector, and the oneact plays Talk to me like the rain and let me listen and The lady of larkspur lotion by Tennessee Williams. We tried thus problematizing the theories about the short story most used by the critical fortune (especially those by Poe, Cortázar and Piglia), arguing their applicability in a modern short story, while we verified the particular structure of the one-act play, considering its development within the dramatic genre and its relationship with the short story. Finally, we intend to establish the contribution of Clarice Lispector and Tennessee Williams in the questioning of traditional forms of short story and drama.
Este trabalho busca considerar a viabilidade da aplicação das noções de formas inacabadas e romancização (propostas por Mikhail Bakhtin) a duas formas literárias (o conto literário moderno e o drama [moderno] em um ato), assim como de verificar a utilidade do conceito à análise de obras de autores modernos que estejam enquadradas nestas formas no nosso caso, os contos Onde estivestes de noite e Seco estudo de cavalos , de Clarice Lispector, e as peças em um ato Fala comigo doce como a chuva [ Talk to me like the rain and let me listen ] e A dama de Bergamota [ The lady of larkspur lotion ], de Tennessee Williams. Tentamos, assim, problematizar as teorias do conto mais aceitas pela fortuna crítica (em especial as de Poe, Cortázar e Piglia), argüindo sua aplicabilidade na forma moderna do conto, ao mesmo tempo em que verificamos as particularidades estruturais do drama em um ato, considerando seu desenvolvimento no seio do gênero dramático e suas relações com a narrativa curta. Por fim, é nossa intenção estabelecer a contribuição de Clarice Lispector e de Tennessee Williams no questionamento das formas tradicionais do conto e do drama.
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Richardson, Diane Fern, and Diane Fern Richardson. "Toward a Pedagogy of Ambiguity: Incorporating and Assessing Ambiguity in a Multiliteracies-Based Foreign Language Classroom." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621855.
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One of the major challenges that persists in postsecondary foreign language (FL) education in the US today is how to implement a more integrated approach to language and literature instruction, that is, one that fosters critical awareness on multiple levels and prepares learners to be globally-connected and engaged citizens (MLA, 2007; Swaffar & Urlaub, 2014). Major contributions for achieving these goals have come from an array of pedagogical approaches that share in common their focus on language as a resource for making socially and symbolically rich meanings that do more than convey facts or express objectives. These include those designated as multiliteracies and genre-based approaches, as well as those that promote intercultural, symbolic and literary competencies as integral to the language learning experience. All of these frameworks acknowledge to some extent the fact that ambiguity-understood here as the multiplicity, indeterminacy, or destabilization of meaning-characterizes language itself and thus also our day-to-day and global communication, as well as the experience and process of FL learning. This dissertation, based on a qualitative classroom-based research study, considers how ambiguity can more be comprehensively integrated into FL learning and in particular into text-oriented teaching practices. The approach taken was a pedagogy that embraces ambiguity by providing learners and educators with strategies for navigating the moments of indeterminacy, uncertainty, and doubt that they will inevitably encounter in and out of the FL classroom. The study, set in an intermediate German language and culture course at a large public university, investigates 1) how to incorporate and assess moments of ambiguity more comprehensively across the curriculum and 2) how learners responded to various encounters with ambiguity, including ambiguity of genre, perspective, and silence. Data analysis revealed that purposeful integration of induced ambiguity can facilitate more comfort with those three dimensions and that it complements the principles of a multiliteracies-based FL pedagogy.
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Vandenborre, Katia. "Le conte dans la littérature polonaise du XXe siècle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209735.
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La présente thèse étudie le développement historico-esthétique du conte littéraire polonais au XXe siècle sur la base d’un corpus qui s’étend de la Jeune Pologne à 1989, en se limitant à la littérature pour adultes. Cette étude se combine avec une réflexion théorique sur la nature du conte en tant que forme littéraire et propose l’outil de la convention pour cerner sa dynamique et sa polymorphie. Dans le conte, nous distinguons quatre niveaux de convention :le monde représenté, les motifs, la narration et le style. Les modèles conventionnels de ces quatre catégories, exposés dans le premier chapitre, servent de repères pour évaluer l’apport des écrivains à la convention du conte dans les deuxième et troisième chapitres. Le deuxième chapitre met en évidence le dynamisme historique qui anime le conte au XXe siècle dans la littérature polonaise, tandis que la troisième partie dégage de façon transversale les principales tendances esthétiques dans l’écriture féerique. Ainsi, le fil de la convention permet de tracer un panorama historique ainsi que de dégager les tendances esthétiques majeures du conte dans la littérature polonaise du XXe siècle, se révélant par là un outil pertinent dans l’étude du conte littéraire. Notons enfin que cette étude du conte littéraire offre un nouveau regard sur quelques uns des écrivains majeurs de la littérature polonaise du XXe siècle :B. Lesmian, W. Gombrowicz, St. I. Witkiewicz, Br. Schulz, T. Konwicki, St. Lem, Sl. Mrozek, Cz. Milosz et bien d’autres. /Based on a wide corpus of adult literature, the present doctoral thesis is devoted to the historical and esthetical development of Polish literary fairy tale in the twentieth century from the Young Poland to the year 1989. It proposes at the same time a theoretical reflection on the literary form of fairy tale. Accordingly the convention is used as the main tool to apprehend its dynamics and its polymorphism. In the fairy tale, four conventional levels can be distinguished: represented world, motives, narration and style. Presented in the first chapter, the conventional models of theses four categories are used as reference points to gauge writers’ contribution to the fairy-tale convention in the second and the third chapters. The second chapter highlights historical dynamism of the fairy tale in Polish literature of the twentieth century, while the third part draws transversally the main esthetical tendencies in fairy-tale writing. Therefore the convention allows to outline an historical panorama and to define the main esthetical tendencies in Polish literature of the twentieth century, which proves its relevance in the study of literary fairy tale. Moreover this study of literary fairy tale takes a fresh look at some of the most important Polish writers of the twentieth century: B. Lesmian, W. Gombrowicz, St. I. Witkiewicz, Br. Schulz, T. Konwicki, St. Lem, Sl. Mrożek, Cz. Milosz.
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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.
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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.Betyg VG (skala IG-VG)
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Syme, Neil. "Uncanny modalities in post-1970s Scottish fiction : realism, disruption, tradition." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21768.
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This thesis addresses critical conceptions of Scottish literary development in the twentieth-century which inscribe realism as both the authenticating tradition and necessary telos of modern Scottish writing. To this end I identify and explore a Scottish ‘counter-tradition’ of modern uncanny fiction. Drawing critical attention to techniques of modal disruption in the works of a number of post-1970s Scottish writers gives cause to reconsider that realist teleology while positing a range of other continuities and tensions across modern Scottish literary history. The thesis initially defines the critical context for the project, considering how realism has come to be regarded as a medium of national literary representation. I go on to explore techniques of modal disruption and uncanny in texts by five Scottish writers, contesting ways in which habitual recourse to the realist tradition has obscured important aspects of their work. Chapter One investigates Ali Smith’s reimagining of ‘the uncanny guest’. While this trope has been employed by earlier Scottish writers, Smith redesigns it as part of a wider interrogation of the hyperreal twenty-first-century. Chapter Two considers two texts by James Robertson, each of which, I argue, invokes uncanny techniques familiar to readers of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson in a way intended specifically to suggest concepts of national continuity and literary inheritance. Chapter Three argues that James Kelman’s political stance necessitates modal disruption as a means of relating intimate individual experience. Re-envisaging Kelman as a writer of the uncanny makes his central assimilation into the teleology of Scottish realism untenable, complicating the way his work has been positioned in the Scottish canon. Chapter Four analyses A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad, delineating a similarity in the processes of repetition which result in both uncanny effects and the phenomenon of tradition, leading to Kennedy’s identification of an uncanny dimension in the concept of national tradition itself. Chapter Five considers the work of Alan Warner, in which the uncanny appears as an unsettling sense of significance embedded within the banal everyday, reflecting an existentialism which reaches beyond the national. In this way, I argue that habitual recourse to an inscribed realist tradition tends to obscure the range, complexity and instability of the realist techniques employed by the writers at issue, demonstrating how national continuities can be productively accommodated within wider, pluralistic analytical approaches.
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Dudková, Dominika. "Podpora a rozvoj čtenářské gramotnosti v mateřské škole prostřednictvím moderních autorských pohádek." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-344341.
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The thesis is devoted to the promotion and development of reading pre-literacy in kindergarten through modern authorial fairy tales. The theoretical part is focused on the development of preschool age children in various aspects related to the development of reading and language skills - in terms of psychology, early childhood education and Framework educational program for preschool education. With respect to the theme of the thesis is part of the theory also definitions of reading literacy and reading pre-literacy and its content in the context of selected procedures for development of reading in kindergarten. There are also itemized some of the methods RWCT (Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking), which are used in order to develop literacy skills. Theoretically, they are also gripped the literary and drama education in kindergarten, the specifics of the modern fairy tale and the role of projective methods in kindergarten. In the practical part there are present projects: What would happen, if there were walking around Brno giant and Lichožrouti. Projects were developed based on the book Daisy Mrázková (What would happen, if ...) and Paul Šrut (Lichožrouti). Both projects were developed in accordance with the Framework educational program for preschool education and the recommendations of...
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Szewczyk, Marta. "Problematika překladu pohádek Miloše Macourka do polštiny." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338811.
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Summery This thesis deals with the issue of translation Milos Macourek's fairy tales into Polish. The starting point for the analysis is a comparison of two versions of a translation of selected texts. The author of the first one is Marie Erhardtowa, the second version is translated by Herman Grzeszczyk and Andrzej Kulikowski. The first part of the thesis is a theoretical preparation which explains the basic questions of literary translation. The main goal of the practical part of this thesis is to determine the target groups of readers, followed by an analysis of the particular translation issues.The conclusion contains a summary of findings and an assessment of individual translation in terms of adequacy.
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Huang, Zih-jhen, and 黃子臻. "RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS IN FAIRY TALES – EXAMPLES FROM Modern Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11922772574683114544.
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Conflict is the key point of a plot, and produces a sense of suspense. An excellent fairy tales uses conflicts as the focus of its’ absorbing plot. The main readers of fairy tales are childrens, and because childrens’ attention are offen easily dispersed, the conflict presented must be fascinating and also cleverly combined with the storyline in order to capture childrens’ attention. The research scope of this essay in on the twenty volumes of Modren Fairy Tales done by Guang-Cai Hao. Using Lukens and Rebcca J.A’s classification of conflicts in children literature, and Li-Li Huang’s native psychological point view on how Chinese culture deals with conflicts, to analyze how the conflicts in Modren Fairy Tales are disposed and solved, and to study Guang-Cai Hao methods and concepts on how to present conflict in fairy tales. This essay contains seven chapters. Chapter one “Introduction” is about the aim of this study. Chapter two “The basic theory of fairy tales” is mainly about the basic concepts of fairy tales, and also statements on conflicts shown in plots and drawings. Chapter three “Discussion on conflicts in fairy tales” lists out other reasearchers’ concept on conflict. Chapter four “Conflicts type and the melt way of Modren Fairy Tales”, take the article primarily, by the chart as the assistance explanation, because of native place psychology scholar Li-Li Huang to the conflict explanation, analyzes of Modren Fairy Tales . Chapter five “The plot skill of Modren Fairy Tales”, in the plot appears the contrast, besides the plot in the actual situation alternation, also discusses the role image the contrast. Chapter six “Conflicts the special characteristic of Modren Fairy Tales”, in the induction plot conflicts annotation way. Chapter seven “Conclusions”, reviews the conflict characteristic of Modren Fairy Tales, and sums up the conflict special characteristic of fairy tales.
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ting, chi tsai, and 紀采婷. "A Study of the ‘‘Modern Fairy Tales’’." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99723439614005122271.
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In the “Modern Fairy Tales”, old fairy tales are shaken up and remixed for the modern children. The study tries to discuss why publish such kind of books in the form of picture books? How to rewrite the old fairy tale？And how do the word writer and picture author collaborate in the relationships of pictures and words？ This study is consisted of six chapters. Chapter One describes the rationale, the purpose, and the objective of this study. It also explains the procedures of conducting this research. Chapter Two is the background of the publication, analyzing the origins and the process of the publication. Chapter Three discusses the material selection and how to use the classic fairy tales in rewriting. Chapter Four discusses the meaning and value of rewrite by analyzing the content and the form. Chapter Five focuses on the relationships of pictures and words. It also inducts the characteristics of words. At the end is the conclusion. From the publishing point of view, these books are successful. However, from the rewriting point of view, the content of these books is not very convincing.
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Chang, Jia-Han, and 張佳涵. "A Narratology Study on Grimms Modern Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00252051879156015309.
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ABSTRACT Many people regard fairy tales as the shared memories during childhood. In the serial of stories, people use their imagination and life experiences to construct different dreams and images. In the domain of image art, picture book is part of image, which has its symbolic meaning. Using the symbolic meanings is the most common way to understand the picture books. However, how to use the images to show the significance and its meaning of the picture books worth our careful consideration. Grimms Modern Fairy Tales is the book which has won several international children books prizes and was translated into several foreign languages. It was released by the Grimms culture limited corporation, established in 1993. The current study focuses on the 20 books from Grimms Modern Fairy Tales, narratively analyzing and comparing different plots to explore their symbolic meaning and their narrative structure. From the analyses of characters and images between the original and adapted picture books, this study concluded elements that affect the design of picture books. The result of this study showed that by adapting stories, the overall principles about the design of picture books could be concluded as follows: 1.the transition of different plots, 2. the style and meaning of characters, 3.personal life experiences, and 4. the influences of the viewpoints about the society. The strategy is that we could base on the Grimms Fairy Tales to create better modern fairy tales which accords with the viewpoints about modern society.
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Yin, Liu Lien, and 劉廉英. "A study on the role of animals in Naoko Awa’s literary fairy tales." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/225935.
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碩士國立臺東大學
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In Naoko Awa's literary fairy tales, there are most of special characteristics that much like a fiction is featured impressively in the plot in which portrayed her characters to the life; human and animals well up with friendly affection and fullness of heart for each other and express it with kindness; The human touch remains throughout as well as warmth. The object of this paper is based on five fairy tales that published by China Times Publishing Co. are 《Song of Wind and Trees》、《The story of the sea at dusk》、《Forests of white parrot》、《Silver Peacock》、《Wild Rose Village distant》(《風と木の歌》、《日暮れの海の物語》、《白いおうむの森》、《銀のくじゃく》、《遠い野ばらの村》). In this paper, by textual analysis we explore what the meanings those animals are on behalf of in Naoko Awa's literary fairy tales; Also, we would like to know what the technique author used to describe the role of animals and what function the role of animals played with. Expect to sum up the meaning of the role of animals in fairy tales from those works. Through an analysis of how Naoko Awa's use the role of animals to occur across contexts, we learn the works deeply and consider the question from different point of view. The content consists of five chapters. Chapter one is a preface. Three verses are in Chapter two that covers a biography of Naoko Awa and whose creative ideas, an introduction to works of Naoko Awa and a brief sketch of the role of animals in her fairy tales. Chapter three discloses Naoko Awa’s portrait techniques for the role of animals in fairy tales. Chapter four describes what the function of the role of animals Naoko Awa gives in fairy tales. Chapter five is a conclusion as below. A. In Naoko Awa's portrait techniques, the animal are bestowed on the sentient in nature a status of individual humanness, supernatural power and mission, and are described with the remaining animal form, which enables the role of animals have a key function in helping mankind with warning against impending natural or man-made disasters, depressed person to get treatment, well function in culture medium and the elimination of confusion and frustration like a wise elder. B. The new mission that the animals were bestowed upon in Naoko Awa's literary fairy tales is only to only to get along with the whole creation so that the meaning and the worth of life is discoverable via experience. C. Naoko Awa makes fairy tales in the field of children's literature a new style and features. A single motif of this children’s literature, Fairy Tales, is here presented to create the subject matters. This presentation may serve as a reference point in writing.
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Hsu, Ke-Yun, and 許可昀. "A Study of Magic Fantasy Fairy Tales and the Image of Modern Cities." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93022455932829068251.
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碩士國立臺南大學
視覺藝術與設計學系碩士班
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“Magic Fairy Tales and the Image of Modern Cities” as the title, this study discusses the relationship between the development of individual art creation and the three aspects of city life, surreal and fairy tales. Through the viewpoint of an art creator, familiar scenes of daily life, unique landscapes and the meaning of humanistic history are made to develop a real but imaginary artistic language. The particular construction products in the development of cities in Taiwan, such as assembled wooden houses, iron-sheet houses with rooftop additions and apartments with barred windows mingled with many city buildings, imperceptibly express some specific identification of social value so that city buildings become the commitment to consciousness; individual perceiving is transferred into visual images, which attempts to uncover deep human mentality. Through analyzing, induction and action research method, this study is divided into five parts to discuss. Chapter One states the motivation and objective; works consist of three core elements: city buildings, hometown and the inner world of imagination. Through the observation of urban spirit and characteristics, Chapter Two analyzes related works of the surreal style and their creation of painting forms. Chapter Three probes into the contexts and tracks of creation, which sorts out individual painting thought. Based on creation topics and style presentation of city images as the core issue, Chapter Four addresses individual creation concepts, works forms, mediums and the experience of creation practice. Chapter Five is induction and conclusion. It is hoped to combine different perspectives and painting to broaden individual creation potentials; it is also hoped to reflect the mix-up of cities in Taiwan through painting creation and guide views into a magic world of fairy tales.
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Wang, Su-Weng, and 王思雯. "As for the study on the modern fairy tales in Taiwan, take the winner of Mu Di Awards of fairy tale for example." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7h7ymv.
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碩士國立臺南大學
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The Flute Fairy Tales of Mandarin Daily News are highly representative of the modern children's literature in Taiwan, which also gains the reputation of the “Best Recommended Billboard for Reading”. The aim of this study attempted to explore the significance of themes, characters, and the structure of the selections in Flute Fairy Tales. Literature review and content analysis was conducted through the research, the origin, content selection, and the jury’s review of Flute Fairy Tales were compared in order to indicate the meaning of contemporary fairy tale literature in Taiwan. The results of this study showed the edutainment of themes, the diversity of characters, and the single rule of structure are the primary techniques of Flute Fairy Tales. To conclude, the theme of Flute Fairy Tales was highly influenced by social change and post-modernism, represents the characteristics of the contemporary social context of Taiwan.
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GVOŽDIÁKOVÁ, Tereza. "Typologie autorské pohádky: Karel Čapek a Jiří Mahen." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-156301.
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This thesis aims to cover basic typological similarities and differences in the work of Karel Čapek and Jiří Mahen, specifically in their fairy-tales. First, we present the characteristics of fairy tales viewed from different perspectives - in terms of theories about its origin, in terms of shaping during the history, from the position of terminology and definition of the genre as a complex. We also create a summary of specifics for both types of fairy-tale - literary and oral, because we want to find and define the similarities in which is literary fairy-tale close to oral ones, while using Propp´s Morphofology of fairy-tales. In the next chapter we will try to reconstruct the concurrent resonance of both works. In the end we will create a summary of all achieved knowledge and their comparison.
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"The State of Critical Theory in Fantastic Literature." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53654.
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abstract: The study of genre literature in general, and fantasy or fairy tale literature in particular, by its very nature, falls outside the normal course of literary theory. This paper evaluates various approaches taken to create a framework within which scholarly research and evaluation of these types of genre literature might occur. This is done applying Secondary World theory to better-established literary foci, such as psychological analysis and monster theory while still respecting the premises posited in traditional literary inquiry.Dissertation/Thesis
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Valášková, Tereza. "Lužickosrbské motivy ve vybraných umělých pohádkách současné literatury." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338658.
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TITLE Motifs of Sorbian Lusatia in contemporary literature focusing on the genre of modern fairy-tale AUTHOR Bc. Tereza Valášková DEPARTMENT Department of German Studies SUPERVISOR PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D ABSTRACT This master thesis deals with the motifs of Sorbian Lusatia in the selected modern fairy-tales in contemporary children's and young adult literature. The problem is explained on the basis of fifteen books by eight Sorbian writers and one German writer. The motifs of Sorbian Lusatia are sought in the Sorbian cultural history, mythology and folklore. This master thesis wants to prove, if motifs of Sorbian Lusatia are used in contemporary children's and young adult literature of the selected authors in the genre of modern fairy-tale. It demonstrates that the issues associated with the culture of this West Slavic minority are in contemporary, especially in Sorbian, but also German literature, a popular source of multicultural enrichment in Europe, which is threatened by monoculture. The methods include especially motif analysis, verification or falsification of the hypothesis, then interpretation and comparison. The work is constructed deductively and it focuses on the description of the issue. It was found that in the selected modern fairy-tales these following motifs occur: history of the Sorbian...
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Kabaji, Egara Stanley. "The construction of gender through the narrative process of the African folktale: a case study of the Maragoli folktale." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1798.
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The purpose of the study was to identify the gender-related themes from a cultural discourse in order to determine how gender is constructed in African society. The study specifically examines the Maragoli Folktale. The Maragoli people mainly inhabit the western part of Kenya and are a sub-tribe of the larger Luhyia community. The Luhyia community is the second largest community in Kenya.
The study attempts to uncover how gender is constructed through the examination of dominant themes, characterization, images, symbols, formulaic patterns and formalities of composition and performance in the Maragoli folktales at the time of performance.
Based on an eclectic conceptual framework, the study takes into consideration gender theories, feminist literary perspectives, psychoanalysis and discourse analysis paradigms to critically examine the tales as a semiotic system of signification grounded within an African social cultural milieu. The folktales are analysed as a symbolic and ideological discourse of signs encoded by the performer and decoded by the audience at the time of performance. The study therefore situates the tale firmly at the time of performance, taking into consideration the interaction between the performer and the audience in the dissemination and internalization of gender ideology.
While establishing that patriarchal structures and values are transmitted through the tales, the study also reveals the methods and interventions that the mainly female performers advance as active agents in their struggle for space within the culture. Women are, therefore, perceived as active agents of change and the folktale as a site from which gender ideology is discussed, contested and subverted.
The study is based on a corpus of twenty (20) folktales collected from the Maragoli country in Western Province of Kenya (See maps, Appendix B.) The English versions of the tales appear in appendix A.English Studies
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Stolínová, Markéta. "Pohádky ve výuce francouzského jazyka." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-390590.
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This diploma thesis deals with the topic of fairy tales in French language teaching. The first part is dedicated to the definition of fairy tales as literary texts and to the presentation of general aspects related to the use of literary forms in foreign language teaching. The subsequent parts are focused exclusively on fairy tales. First of all, the fairytale genre is generally introduced. Afterwards, several ways of the application of fairy tales in French classes are outlined, with regard to the focus on language skills and sub-skills. The practical part includes more subsections, however, it mainly aims at the analysis of the role of fairy tales in French language teaching in the Czech Republic. Therefore, it consists of the analysis of significant French textbooks and of a questionnaire survey aimed at Czech lower secondary and high school teachers. The textbook analysis verifies the presence of fairy tales in didactic materials, whereas the aforementioned survey examines the experience and opinions of foreign language teachers on this issue. Finally, three worksheets, based on recently acquired knowledge, are created to serve as the source of inspiration and motivation for the use of fairy tales in foreign language teaching. KEYWORDS fairy tales, French language teaching, literary text,...
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Špitálská, Andrea. "Genderová analýza knižního souboru Pohádky pod polštář." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-329332.
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The diploma thesis analyzes the collection of fairy tales titled Pohádky pod polštář (Fairy Tales to Put Under the Pillow), written by psychologist Zuzana Pospíšilová and illustrated by Katarína Ilkovičová. The collection was published in the Czech Republic in 2012. The individual fairy tales are based on European folklore and adapted for the Czech cultural context. In terms of presentation, the collection is intended as a modern update of the popular children's fairy tale format. My analysis is rooted in feminist theory and feminist cultural and literary studies, as exemplified by authors such as Pam Morris, Simone de Beauvoir, Naomi Wolf and others. The subject of power is analyzed mainly in relation to the writings of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu. From this perspective, I have attempted to make an informed criticism of the stereotypical and otherwise discriminatory images of gender present in the fairy tales. On the other hand, I have also recorded the instances in which gender normativity is subverted in the collection. In addition, the thesis attempts to employ an intersectional approach to analyzing the selected text, taking into account other categories significant to the dominant social order including not only gender, but also race/ethnicity, class, sexual identity,...