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Robbins, Suzanne. "Making connections through the use of fairy tales." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/914.
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李揚 and Yang Li. "A morphological study of Chinese folktales." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31233776.
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Wu, Hsiang-mei. "Chaucer and prejudices : a critical study of 'The Canterbury Tales'." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58523/.
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This thesis investigates the prejudices in Geoffrey Chaucer‘s The Canterbury Tales. There are thirty pilgrims and twenty-two tales in this grand work. As it is unlikely to discuss all of them in one thesis, I focus my research on four pilgrims—the Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and the Pardoner—to demonstrate Chaucer‘s prejudices in various aspects. The chapter on the Miller analyzes how men and women interact in sexual terms in the public domains and private spaces, investigating the poet‘s sexual discrimination in his final distribution of punishments for the characters as well as his chauvinistic disregard of the female body and its autonomy; Chaucer‘s punishment is not entirely of 'poetic justice' as it is dispensed at the cost of class victimization and the vilification of the female body. The Prioress‘s chapter discusses the poet‘s prejudices against female religious, exploring how Chaucer is affected by conventional descriptions of courtly ladies and contemporary conception of female religious‘ sexuality when he contradictorily glosses the Prioress as a romantic beauty; Chaucer‘s language prejudice and his innuendo of the Prioress‘s sexual attraction reflect his contempt and mis-evaluation of the Prioress‘s status, social function, and professional abilities. The chapter on the Wife of Bath examines 'The Wife of Bath‘s Prologue' as a manifestation of a medieval woman‘s life education, demonstrating how Alisoun is molded by mercantile marriage transactions, the tradition of misogyny, and the auctoritees‘ ill-meant religious instruction through garbled texts; the Wife‘s deafness does not signify her resistance or inability to understand men‘s 'truth', but an undeserved punishment from her frustrated educators. The Pardoner‘s chapter examines the Pardoner as a feminized and marginalized figure, exhibiting the narrator‘s, the Host‘s, and the Canterbury pilgrims‘ fear and hate of the 'different', the 'perverse', and the non-heterosexual; the Pardoner is treated as 'Other' of the Canterbury group and is brutally 'Othered' by the pilgrims despite his efforts in heterosexual identity and conformity. My study of Chaucer‘s prejudices will naturally extend to the investigations of modern readers‘ prejudices, particularly critics‘ false interpretation of the Miller‘s Alisoun‘s 'escape', denial of the Prioress‘s beauty, misconception of Jankyn‘s violence, and unconscious siding with patriarchy in the 'Othering' of the Pardoner, among others.
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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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Stewart, Kristy Gilbert. "Blogs, Books, & Breadcrumbs: A Case Study of Transmedial Fairy Tales." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4319.
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Understanding transmedial storytelling is particularly important to fairy-tale studies. Monomedial views have long been unable to account for all of fairy tale tradition. Although the form originated in oral culture, it has long been a liminal, hybrid form that retains aspects of orality even while its principal mode of transference for some time has been something other than face-to-face communication. Transformations and adaptations across different media and contexts has resulted in a system of fairy-tale tradition that is massively intertextual and transmedial. No one medium can claim primary control over the fairy-tale tradition. Throughout time, oral tellings have inspired literary adaptations; literary renditions have influenced oral and theater performances; oral, print, and theater performances have spawned any number of retellings and adaptations within audiovisual media. This case study, investigates one example of adaptation to social media and integration across media: Tim Manley's satirical blog Fairy Tales for Twenty-somethings and his book Alice in Tumblr-land. In Manley's fairy tale creations, we see an instance of what Henry Jenkins calls convergence culture. This convergence should be of particular interest to folklorists because corporate and mass-media systems continue to influence and integrate with existing forms of interaction. Manley's overall narrative approach integrates two media, which permits him to use fairy tales to express a broader range of narrative impulses than would a project tied to only one medium. Media integration is an important concept to recognize and investigate because so many individuals see different media as inherently combative rather than mutually beneficial systems. Just as intertextuality has become a foundational concept in many humanistic studies, intermediality needs to enter the folklorist's discussions as well. With only some media under consideration, we only get some of the message.
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Radzi, Shalful Bahri. "Malay humourous tales : performance, corpus of oral texts and its study." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392362.
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Shaiful, Bahri Radzi. "Malay humorous tales : performance, corpus of oral texts and its study." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29573/.
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Like other societies, the Malays enjoy stories which make them laugh. Numerous stories appear and are transmitted by word of mouth when people are gathered at leisure. They bring laughter and joy to teller and audience. The stories usually portray the characters' clumsiness, slow-wittedness, or cunning in their escapades. Up to the present, the subject matter of these stories has never been fully examined. Further studies have mainly focused on the traditional type of humorous tales, their classification, and functions and have based these examinations solely on written texts. This study seeks to investigate the current practice of the performance of humorous tales in Malay society. It will focus on the roles played by the narrator and audience in order to enliven the performance. In this connection, it is essential to look at the background of the storytelling tradition; the whole corpus of the Malay humorous tales : traditional, modem and contemporary type of tales; also other aspects related to the performance ; techniques of delivery, setting, the audience's reception, and the narrator's background (status in the community; personality; level of education; and the way in which they acquired their fund of stories). The introduction of four different types of classification systems - based on themes, heroes, modes of creation; and plots, - shows that the tales consist of a variety of themes; heroes; tales, and actions performed by the heroes respectively. The thematic classification in particular will give an alternative classification scheme which could fit numerous tales that exist in oral form. It also shows why the Malay are fascinated by this kind of tales; who are the butt of humour; why they are targeted; and what laughable actions they perform. The poetic values of Malay humorous tales are evident through their linguistic and literary features. In linguistic terms, the storytellers use colloquial Malay, classical Malay, Malay dialects and some foreign language to execute their repertoire. Literary features take the form of storytelling techniques, which include repetitions, insertion of poetic verses, and shortening phrases. The combination of these linguistic and literary features, reveals that even such colloquial presentation also possesses its own stylized forms of delivery. Discussion of poetics also includes an analysis of the tales' devices of humour and their functions. On the basis of the classification schemes, especially the classification of heroes and plots, it appears that incongruity, ambiguity, absurdity, surprise and a combination of several such elements are the devices of humour that provoke Malays to laughter. Such stories are used to express elements of didacticism in negative terms; for socializing purposes; to represent a form of social and political criticism; to enhance self-respect and arouse a sense of national awareness and integrity.
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Thompson, Nigel Stuart. "Love's debate : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315944.
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Ma, Ho-yan, and 馬昊欣. "The Art of Gothic Terror: a study of Edgar Allan Poe's tales." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952240.
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Tsui, Kam Jean, and 徐錦. "Rewriting Shakespeare: a study of Lin Shu's translation of tales from Shakespeare." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41634202.
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Da, Rold Orietta. "A study of Cambridge University Library, MS.Dd.424 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13270.
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Tsui, Kam Jean. "Rewriting Shakespeare a study of Lin Shu's translation of tales from Shakespeare /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41634202.
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Ma, Ho-yan. "The Art of Gothic Terror : a study of Edgar Allan Poe's tales /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161744.
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Keys, Timothy J. "Resolving the paradox of a multicultural society : the use of international folktales for the promotion of multicultural values in the classroom." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26738.
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In a multicultural society educators face the problem of identifying and promoting values that help people to interact in a peaceful and just manner. Instead of imposing values through indoctrination educators can promote multicultural values by designing and enacting curricula that help children to self-generate and choose these values.I have developed a curriculum that uses international folktales to promote multicultural values without imposing them. This thesis is a holistic rendering of theory and practice in respect to the curriculum developed. The theory emphasizes multiculturalism and folktales as children's literature with a brief discussion of values education, qualitative research, anthropology, and curriculum design. The research comprises the procedures, results, and conclusions of a pilot study exploring children's value responses to international folktales and a principal study of teaching the curriculum to a sixth grade class. Through the synthesis of theory and practice a better understanding of multiculturalism emerges along with a researched curriculum.
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Sharkey, S. "A reassessment of the theory and analysis of traditional tales with an illustrative study of the hero in a group of ancient Irish tales." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382930.
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Stubbs, Estelle Vivien. "A study of the codicology of four early manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15177/.
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This thesis is a study of the physical features of the four earliest manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales all dated to the first years after the death of Geoffrey Chaucer. I assess the ways in which codicological examination can contribute to the understanding of a complex textual tradition and inform the study of the text. The thesis is divided into two volumes. The first volume contains the seven chapters which make up the thesis. The first chapter contains a review of the printed editions of the poem since Caxton's first edition of 1476 and a summary of the most important contributions of scholarship in the twentieth century. It reveals that many influential editions and much scholarship on the textual tradition of the poem have been achieved with scant consultation of the extant manuscripts. The second chapter addresses the problems which have arisen as a result of this neglect and offers suggestions for a different approach to manuscript analysis which will be provided as a result of the examination of the manuscripts in the remainder of the thesis. Chapters three to six contain detailed analyses of the four manuscripts in the survey: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392D (Hengwrt), Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS. 198 (Corpus), London, British Library MS. Harley 7334 (Harley 4), and California, San Marino, Huntington Library MS. El. 26 C 9 (Ellesmere). In chapter seven, I summarise the findings and offer suggestions for future research. The second volume contains all the appendices numbered 1-20 followed by 22 Plates. For each manuscript there are four or five separate appendices which provide details of the following: a visual overview, a detailed analysis of individual quires, a list of all rubrics, lines added, omitted or variant in each manuscript, and a list of catchwords.
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Ybos, Cynthia. "Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study of Stories Told by Pre-service Teachers." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1240.
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Teacher stories were once relegated to informal gatherings but more recently this aspect of teacher development is being carefully studied in more formalized settings because it is believed to be an important part of teacher development. New ways are being sought to use various aspects of storytelling to help pre-service teachers develop important teaching skills through reflection on experience, dialogue journals, case studies and autobiography. Despite these efforts at the university level, it is especially difficult for pre-service teachers to integrate and apply theories from their methods courses to actual classroom practice. Less effort has been focused on storytelling processes that may occur outside these formal approaches. This study, therefore, looked at how pre-service teachers used stories told in an informal setting to process aspects of learning to teach. This study revealed that pre-service teachers engage in story telling for reasons and in ways that are different from teacher educator intents. Using interviews and private dialogues, patterns of when, how and why six pre-service teachers used oral stories emerged that illuminate challenges to using personal and appropriated stories in coursework. The findings of this study include how oral storytelling is used by pre-service teachers to process emotion and demonstrate specific identities and personal characteristics.
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Dong, Shufang. "Fairy Tales and Students' Literacy Learning at Amaze Elementary School| A Case Study." Thesis, University of Rochester, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10927964.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the meaning of a class of second graders’ fairy tale learning experiences. This study is unique four key reasons. First, it focuses on a group of students whose school has been lagging in state English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency tests; second, it provides perspectives on how fairy tales affect the reading and writing of this group of students; third, it contributes to educational theory in terms of how to understand literacy practices by utilizing sociocultural theories; fourth, it implies that when it comes to educational policy, policy makers and educators should call for attention and efforts to tackle the problem of low ELA proficiency instead of putting students on the front line of low ELA test results and having them suffer the consequences of the outcomes. The current study employs a qualitative case study methodology supported by class observation and its fieldnotes, interviews, and materials that document second-grade students’ fairy tale learning experiences. Grounded theory was used as analytical tool. The study found that students’ fairy tale learning experiences were social practices built up in the community of fairy tale practices learning and expanded the capacities of students’ reading and writing.
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McSeveney, Anne-Marie. "Telling tales together : a study of children's collaborative oral story-making and performance." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54497/.
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This study is of relevance to primary teachers, teacher educators and librarians interested in developing storytelling with children. It sets out to establish the key skills involved in the process of children's collaborative creation of stories and in their collaborative performance of these stories for and audience. Children's collaborative story-making and telling was studied in two Scottish primary schools. In one school the context was an after-school storytelling club for children in Primary 3 and 4. In the other school, the context was a series of class storytelling sessions with a composite PS-? class. The research indicates that development of the skills involved in children's collaborative story-making and storytelling are dependent on their previous experience and are also complex and interdependent. It indicates that these skills include: the collaborative skills of creating, understanding and applying ground rules, of turn taking, listening and building on previous contributions; the social skills of interacting with peers and with an audience; the learning skills of memorising and of evaluating their own and others' performances; the linguistic skills of creating a narrative with structure and themes which satisfy an audience, of recognising and using different types of talk in different contexts and of borrowing language appropriately from other contexts; the performance skills of performing a narrative that satisfies an audience, of use of voice and of interaction with an audience.
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Cossaro-Price, Rossana. "Subverting the Gothic : a study of Isak Dinesen." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60601.
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Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales is part of a literary tradition whose most important feature is its subversiveness. This subversion involves supernatural or fantastic elements in the creation of a temporary alternative world. The ensuing struggle between the real and the fantastic worlds is often embodied by a bourgeois heroine and an aristocratic male villain, respectively. The role of the heroine is pivotal to the plot for it is her survival that signals the defeat of a subversive alternative world. But what happens when the villain is a woman? Can her subversion be feminist in nature? The popularity and financial success of women writers of the Gothic means they could not have contradicted dominant views of gender. Yet, Dinesen's fiction demonstrates that subversion is indeed possible. A look at her life and her nonfiction works will facilitate an investigation into the subversive nature of her Gothic tales.
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Thomson, Claire Elizabeth. "A transcription and study of British Library MS. Lansdowne 851 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299595.
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British Library MS. Lansdowne 851 has never been viewed as central to the Canterbury Tales tradition and only two hypotheses regarding its priority within the transmission of the poem have ever been proposed: I) that La and Cp shared the same exemplar or sets of exemplars, and 2) that La is a direct copy of Cpo This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive analysis and description of La and to review in detail its relationship to Cp; thereby testing and ascertaining the relative priority of these hypotheses, proposed by Manly and Rickert (1940) and Blake (1985) respectively. To complete a comprehensive analysis of the La manuscript I have transcribed it into electronic format to permit accurate cross-referencing with a base text and other transcribed witnesses; an electronic copy of the transcription is provided with this thesis. A meticulous and exhaustive consultation of the La manuscript itself has also been completed, the detail of which is described within the chapters and appendices of this thesis. Chapter I discusses and reviews the history of Canterbury Tales editions and scholarly attitudes regarding the textual tradition. A thorough description of the La witness is presented in Chapter II. The provenance of La and a reassessment of Manly and Rickert's work in this area is discussed fully in Chapter III. Chapter IV considers the tale order, and major textual omissions and additions of La and Cp, and begins to explore the genesis of the La and Cp text. This is investigated further in Chapter VI by close study of the minor omissions, additions, dialect and spelling, and glosses of the two manuscripts. These chapters yield firm evidence of sufficient detail to test the hypotheses of Blake and Manly and Rickert. Chapter V discusses the inclusion of unique links in La. Chapter VII considers the decoration of La and the plausibility of it having been produced in a commercial scriptoriurn. The Conclusion forms Chapter VIII in which it is established that Blake's hypothesis may be dismissed, and that Manly and Rickert's hypothesis is inconclusive. I have proposed an equally viable conjecture supported by both textual and other evidence, that La and Cp share a common ancestor, the c archetype, but that La was produced by conSUlting an intermediate, and now unknown exemplar.
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Ibrahim, Hanan Mahmud. "Tales of two houses : a comparative study between some Arab and British feminist novels." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327444.
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Horobin, Simon. "A transcription and study of British Library MS additional 35286 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6001/.
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Much scholarship devoted to the study of the text of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales has focused on the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, attempting to reconcile their many differences in the content and presentation of the poem. In concentrating on these two manuscripts, and a small group of other witnesses dated to the first quarter of the fifteenth century, scholars have largely ignored over forty complete manuscripts copied throughout the remainder of the century. Study of the manuscripts has relied on features external to the text of the poem itself in order to chart the development of the tradition, such as the order of tales, while details of text, language and metre have remained relatively unconsidered. The subject of this study is a manuscript that has been neglected by scholars due to its date of copying, c. 1430-50, and certain idiosyncracies in the tale-order. Despite these factors this manuscript contains a text closely related to that of Hg, the earliest extant copy of the poem. In addition to preserving an accurate copy of an early exemplar, Ad3 also shows close links with El, particularly in its ordering of the tales and the inclusion of marginalia. This is therefore an important copy of the poem, highlighting the restrictions and limitations of current attitudes to the textual tradition, and with much to offer as an independent witness to an early exemplar, with unique access to materials used in the production of both Hg and El. This study draws on recent technological developments, such as the availability of electronic versions of Middle English texts and collation software, in order to provide a detailed and comprehensive analysis of Ad3. In addition to this an electronic version of the text is included to enable further research of this kind.
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Goode, E. J. "Beyond Persephone : a study of the twice-told tales in Ovid's Fasti and Metamorphoses." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1367616/.
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There are several narratives told by Ovid in both the Fasti and Metamorphoses and, excluding the rape of Persephone, there has been little or no analysis of them. This thesis is the first focused comparison of all of the twice-told tales in the Metamorphoses and the Fasti. This thesis presents a close-reading of four of the most substantial twice-told tales, the rape of Callisto, the rape of Europa, the apotheosis of Romulus, and the death of Hippolytus. We find that the Metamorphoses and Fasti are woven together with strong invitations to compare between the two texts. Broadly this thesis finds that genre and, in particular, interest in divine action is an important distinguishing feature between the twicetold tales; divine action being present to a greater degree in the Metamorphoses narratives. This thesis then surveys the remaining twice-told tales with an emphasis on their position within the text. Here we find that the twice-told tales are positioned so as to increase the intertextual pull between the Metamorphoses and Fasti. Comparison of the twice-told tales also reveals insights into the individual texts, and in this respect the Fasti, as the lesser investigated of the two texts, particularly benefits. We argue that the twice-told tales in the Fasti reveal that the Fasti is a text characterised by the flux of genre and tone. Sexual comedy, a theme found to be present in several twice-told tales, is an important part of the way the Fasti maintains this flux. Comparison of twice-told narratives is then complemented by a comparison of a non-narrative discourse on animal sacrifice. This thesis demonstrates that comparison of this non-narrative episode is both invited with strong verbal echoes, and reveals useful insights into the two versions. Non-narrative operates in a similar way to narrative in the Metamorphoses and Fasti.
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Mathur, Indira. "Beyond monologism : a study of the system-event dialectics in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Toulouse 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOU20071.
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La thèse porte sur un des ouvrages médiévaux les plus connus en anglais, notamment Les Contes de Cantorbéry de Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – cc. 1400). L’étude vise à définir la démarche créative de Chaucer à travers les Contes. Nous nous appuyons pour cela sur la théorie bakhtinienne selon laquelle la création événementielle prend forme dans un double mouvement ; elle repose sur un système tout en s'écartant de ce même système. L'étude que nous proposons s'articule autour de trois axes d'analyse. Le point de départ se situe au niveau de la focalisation narrative. Notre démarche constitue à définir, à travers des commentaires détaillés de certains extraits des Contes, l'interaction et l'oscillation entre différentes perspectives. Dans un deuxième temps, nous explorons la technique mise en œuvre par Chaucer lors de la création de textes originaux à travers son adaptation de trois genres, notamment la confession, le sermon et le fabliau. Enfin, nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement aux implications des choix de Chaucer en tant que traducteur-créateur dans son adaptation de certains extraits du Roman de la Rose de Jean de Meun. La conclusion de l'étude se rapporte à la prouesse chaucerienne d'avoir pu créer un ouvrage original à une époque marquée par le ressassement perpétuel des mêmes thèmes et des mêmes approches et ce dans une langue d'un statut incertain que fut le Moyen AnglaisThis thesis is on the Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – cc. 1400). My main aim is to describe Chaucerian creation in terms of the system-event dialectic as per Bakhtin. According to the Bakhtinian theory, an event takes shape from a system through adherence and departure from that very system. The thesis focuses on three constituents in the production of the Canterbury Tales, namely the interplay between different narrative perspectives, the adaptation of generic conventions and the translation of extracts from a French text. The study opens with a close reading of some extracts of the Tales with a view to circumscribing and defining the narrative perspective(s). The scope of the study then widens by the focus on Chaucer's technique of adaptation of three genres to create an evential text. The three genres in question are confession, sermon and the fabliau. Lastly, I dwell upon sociolinguistics considerations related to Chaucer's translation of some extracts of Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose. I conclude upon Chaucer's feat in creating an original text within a period where literary themes and techniques limited. Most of all, he uses a linguistic medium which is far from being a firmly established one in literature, that is Middle English
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Kidwai, Abdur Raheem. "'Samples of the finest Orientalism' : a study of the Orient in Lord Byron's 'Turkish Tales'." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34865.
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Ågren, Linda. "Linguistic sexism in mermaid tales : a study of linguistic sexism involving the mermaid figure in films." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för lärande och miljö, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-11764.
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Hutchinson, Tsekwa Jennifer. "'Travelling Tales' : American (re)constructions of South Africa and Africa through study abroad in Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14804.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-138).Postcolonial theory has been critiqued for essentializing the North and being too theoretical. Yet it has also been described as essential for the ongoing decolonization of our world. Scholars in a range of disciplines have therefore suggested the need to 'examine specific practices and devises in particular times and places' in order to expose and challenge the ways that certain forms of discourse function to maintain imperialist interests and misrepresentations of Africa in the 'West.' To these ends, this study looks at the construction of early European/American travelers' tales and the experience of study abroad in South Africa as two particular practices that are relevant to the concerns of postcolonialism. While much has been written about each of these phenomena on their own, little has been done to bring them into a conversation with each other. To fill this gap, this dissertation draws on narrative analysis, symbolic convergence theory, discourse analysis and postcolonial theory to explore the dominant narratives that emerge in the pre-trip, embodied trip and post-trip tellings of both types of tales. In order to discover the meaning-making processes of these narratives, qualitative methods were used. Firstly, an extensive literature review was undertaken of early travelers' tales (written between 1600 and 1900), images of Africa in the United States, travel and tourism theory and study abroad literature. Eight focus groups and six one-on-one interviews were then conducted with a total of 36 American students, who were either directly enrolled at the University of Cape Town or participants in the School for International Training (SIT) in Cape Town. These interviews were then followed up with email correspondence once the students had returned home. This study found that while study abroad narratives have enormous potential to challenge the negative and inaccurate stereotypes about Africa in the United States, many strains still exist that mirror the rhetoric of early travelers' tales and promote notions of Africa as 'wild', 'dangerous' and 'underdeveloped' and South Africa as the 'light' version of Africa. However, in contrast to the writers of early travelers' tales, the students who participated in this study demonstrated many more instances of critical self-reflection and desire for change.
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Pereira, Adão Regis. "Teorema de Tales: análise de sua apresentação nos livros didáticos e proposição de atividades." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2014. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/791.
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CAPESNesse trabalho identificamos os objetivos e as orientações nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, do terceiro e quarto ciclos, sobre o estudo da Geometria. Pesquisamos sobre a Biografia de Tales de Mileto, onde fazemos um relato, da região e história, da época em que ele viveu, contamos alguns de seus feitos, e enumeramos os teoremas cujas demonstrações lhe são atribuídas. Analisamos seis livros didáticos do 9º ano do ensino fundamental, que integram o Plano Nacional do Livro Didático 2014, observamos a forma como a Geometria é trabalhada, e quais as demonstrações e atividades apresentadas em relação ao Teorema de Tales. Usamos e recomendamos o software Geogebra para o estudo da Geometria. Propomos atividades diversificadas, para serem utilizadas em sala de aula, quando o Teorema de Tales for trabalhado. Sugerimos uma demonstração para o Teorema de Tales, onde utilizamos a definição de área do triângulo, e as propriedades do paralelogramo.
In this work we identify the goals and guidelines the National Curriculum Guidelines, the third and fourth cycles, on the study of geometry. We searched on the Biography of Thales of Miletus, where we do a story, and history of the region, the era in which he lived, we count some of their deeds, and enumerate the theorems whose statements are allocated. We analyzed six textbooks in 9th grade of elementary school, comprising the National Plan of Didactic Book 2014, observed how the geometry is crafted, and what activities and statements made with respect to the Thales’ Theorem. We use and recommend the Geogebra software for the study of geometry. We propose diversified activities for use in the classroom when the Thales’ Theorem is working. We suggest a demonstration of Thales’ Theorem, where we use the definition of the triangle area, and properties of the parallelogram.
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Lai, Wai-ting Thomas, and 黎偉廷. "Wagering love between desire and discipline: a study of sexual power in Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46848836.
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Kline, Daniel P. "Bringing Pocci’s “Hansel and Gretel” to America: A Study and Translation of a Puppet Show." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211208363.
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Gayt��n, Ruiz M��nica. "Design of marketing campaigns and cultural differences. Comparative study in Mexico and Germany." Thesis, Universidad de las Am��ricas Puebla, 2011. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/lni/gaytan_r_m/.
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This project gives an approach of what constitutes the culture and the reasons why international firms, by trying to conquer foreign markets, have to consider it for doing advertising.
A literature review and an observation were made in this thesis and the goal is to find out if the culture really matters when doing advertising in a foreign country. This is taking into account Hofstede��s dimensions and other factors like traditions, values and language. In this particularly case observation was made by analysis of advertisements in Mexico and in Germany.
At the end of the research it is find that Hofstede��s cultural dimensions can be also reflected in the commercials. Nevertheless, Individualism and Masculinity are the two mainly dimensions that were observed in the TV spots analyzed. Therefore, Hofstede��s dimensions can be very helpful as a basis when an International marketer wants to expand their products and reach markets in other countries..
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董小菁. "A Study of E.B. White’s Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25764351499125626155.
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碩士臺北市立師範學院
應用語言文學研究所
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A Study of E.B. White’s Fairy Tales ABSTRACT E.B. White (1899-1985) is a famous prose writer, poet, critic, and children literature author of the twentieth century . The main characters in his three fairy tales, Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan are all animals, which ere familiar to children. Children like his three fairy tales very much. This thesis aims to study E.B. White’s fairy tales. There are five chapters in the whole thesis, and the main point and content of each chapter is as follows. Chapter one Introduction: The researcher first introduces the motivation and purpose of this study, and then works on the literature review. Finally, the research method and scope are stated. The researcher hopes to implement a complete literature study on White’s fair tales in order to realize their features and value. Chapter two E.B. White’s Biography and Works: The researcher starts with briefing the development of the English and American fairy tales in the twentieth century, and then White’s life is concisely accounted. Lastly, the researcher introduces the translations and their summaries of White’s fairy tales in Taiwan. Chapter three The Content of E.B. White’s Fairy Tales: The researcher first analyzes the topic and theme of White’s fairy tales, and next sums up their features of the contents. Through the themes full of daily life and knowledge, White builds up a true, good, and beautiful fairy tale world. The topics are brimful of affectionate parental love, noble friendship, and optimistic outlook on life. Chapter four The Form of E.B. White’s Fairy Tales: From the perspectives of language, character feature, portrayal, structure, and viewpoint, the researcher explores the form of White’s fairy tales. His fairy tales have a taste of prose poems, and the language he used is simple and fluent. He sculpts typical characters with nimble skills. He uses down-and-up structure line. He also utilizes omniscience and his own comment in the works. Chapter five Conclusion: The researcher concludes the art style of White’s fairy tales, and reviews the history and looks forward into the future. White transforms his concerns for the universe into the themes of his works. White’s fairy tales hold national flavor of America. They teach lessons and are fun to read. They combine reality and imagination, and the language has magic power. White is one of the greatest writers of American children literature. Hopefully, the children literature writers in Taiwan can create outstanding works in the near future, too. Keywords: E.B. White, Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan
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Caroline and 黃秀雲. "A Study of A.A Milne's Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34901745818191115837.
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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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碩士臺東師範學院
兒童文學研究所
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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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Tasi, Li Yun, and 蔡麗雲. "The study of Chinese Animals-tales type." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30079392115277783622.
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Yi-Cin, Lin, and 林宜親. "The study of Tang Cong’s fairy tales." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44351317397730631514.
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碩士臺北市立教育大學
中國語文學系碩士班
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Since 1990s, a lot of new fairy tale authors revealed their talent. In one of them, Tang Cong, is regarded as one of the representative authors in the field of contemporary fairy tales in Taiwan because she has kept writing in these decades. Her works are much praised neither on quality or quantity. Other authors and she have made much effort on creating novel themes and unconventional subjects. The papers will start from the growth background of Tang Cong, learn the reasons why she engaged in children literature, explore the viewpoint of her creation spirit, and also study on her works by using the methods“ documentary analysis and text analysis” to know the characteristics in three parts of her fairy tale creations from 1988 to June, 2010 which Including contents, characters, and structure. 1. Discussion of the fairy tales contents Tang Cong’s fairy tales mainly deal with life philosophy, and that of “love and care “being the second. These themes are mainly expressed through the dialogue of characters clearly. Most of the subjects are adopted from “social phenomenons”and “life skills and moral”, which obviously come from the real life. It guides children to explore the world and cultivate their ability of daily life. 2. Discussion of the characters in fairy tales. In Tang Cong’s fairy tales, it is the anthropopathic character has been illustrated the most with the personified animals as the main character then the role of ordinary human, both have been largely used than the super hero icon or the talisman character. Although the author hasn’t put a lot of emphasis on both of the above mentioned, yet the presence of the new characters like aliens or tech products have shown how “in-time” Tang Cong’s works could be. In the techniques of characterization, the author has used more on direct characterization over the indirect one yet the alternate application has further evidenced her ability and flexibility in skills. Direct narration by author, Dialogue between characters, Indirect narration by others and Motion have been the four main skills applied the most in her works other than the rest sub-techniques. 3. Discussion of the fairy tales structures. The structure of Tang Cong’s fairy tales could be divided into three parts- introduction, body paragraph, and conclusion. Among the above three mentioned, the introduction and conclusion is well-tailored to match the different age group of the target readers. For example, young children fairy tales focus on being straightforward and integrated; children fairy tales, on the other hand, are more after “performances” such as moves and dialogues, or including additional questions or humors out of the main thread to arouse readers’ aspiration for more when finished. The skills of contrast/comparison and repetition have been largely applied in body paragraph for over quarter of the whole structure respectively. These skills have not only perfectly matched the characteristic of the structure but outstood the story theme, while subverting tradition to stand out from cliché. Among the whole linear structure, fairy tales tend to use more single-story structure than bilinear structure and the former accounts for 56% while 44% for the latter. As the linear structure emphasizes more on positiveness, the highlight on rising action than falling in conclusion part has further proved Tang Cong’s preference on good ending.
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Tsai, I.-jun, and 蔡怡君. "The study of intelligentsia in Liao-Zhai tales." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18051373941193644323.
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LIN, CHUANG WEN, and 莊雯琳. "The study of Charles Perrault's eight fairy tales." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nw5272.
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碩士輔仁大學
法國語文學系
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Le sujet du mémoire est l’«Etude des contes de Perrault». Nous avons d’abord exploré l’histoire du conte, clarifié des questions des gens et observé la structure et la rhétorique des huit récits courts de Perrault. Nous avons découvert que le conte ne se borne pas à la littérature enfantine, il a une histoire longue. Au commencement, c’était des récits oraux, après, grâce à la culture salonnière, c’est devenu un genre littéraire unique très à la mode. Pourtant il est différent du mythe et de la légende. Lire un conte est pour apprécier son esthétique et pour se divertir mais la fonction éducative n’est qu’un effet additif. La structure et la rhétorique uniques sont des éléments qui rendent ces textes courts plus amusants et plus attractifs. Après avoir étudié en profondeur le réalisme des huit récits, nous avons observé que les ogres, le loup et la Barbe bleue représentent distinctement les Grands corrompus et les séducteurs horribles. À travers les contes, nous avons découvert comment les bourgeois réussissent et comment ils remplacent les nobles. Quand nous analysons chaque texte, nous constatons que Perrault insiste beaucoup sur le danger de l’amour. Enfin, nous avons essayé de trouver les facteurs qui influencent l’auteur. Le premier est peut-être son expérience personnelle : il est le cadet dans sa famille, donc les héros sont toujours les enfants les plus petits et les plus négligeables. Sous l’influence de son père, Perrault n’est pas superstitieux. La magie pour lui n’est qu’un divertissement. D’autre part, à cause de sa mère et de sa femme, il a un sentiment paradoxal pour les femmes. Donc l’image de la femme dans les Contes est à la fois positif et négatif. À propos de la dédicase du recueil, son but est d’attirer l’attention sur son plus jeune fils et le met sous la protection d’une princesse promise à un grand avenir. Le deuxième est la querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. À travers ce petit ouvrage, Perrault veut montrer que les Modernes arrivent à faire mieux que les Anciens. Le dernier est les sources orales anciennes et les sources écrites italiennes, après les avoir élaborées et aménagées, Perrault les a rendues accessibles à un nouveau public. Son œuvre a toujours eu du succès, même de nos jours
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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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碩士國立雲林科技大學
視覺傳達設計系碩士班
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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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xiu-zhi, Chen, and 陳秀枝. "The study of The Flute Award’s Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12702026796512822601.
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碩士臺東師範學院
兒童文學研究所
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The thesis focuses on analyzing children’s stories of“The Flute’s Fairy Tales 0f Mandarin Daily News’’，starting form 1995，held by Mandarin Daily News every two years. Children’s stories which own The Flute’s Fairy Tale gain an unique reputation and accomplishments in the field of domestic children literature，because of the prize’s highly competition and its writers’ wholehearted involved. Its related noble footprint are showing up on“Best Recommended Billboard for Reading” for a long time and having an extremely good sale on book market which is relatively impressed in recent years. With so many brilliant records，it is really worthy to analyze those stories selected by The Flute’s Fairy Tales. The structure of thesis will start from distinguishing general differences from children stories and other kinds of literature，such as its imagination，and timeframe. Then the discussion will be followed up by exploring how the characters are modeled，how words are used，how the plots and the structure are set up，and how theme and the subject are decided. There are some important views on The Flute’s Fairy Tales such as obvious subject, profound meaning , diversified theme ,follow the time changing, the lovely vivid characters, and other special feature： modernization, integrated structure, vision picture etc. That’s why The Flute’s Fairy Tales have an important position in the field of children’s literature. The researcher expects his study can offer some ideas and skills as reference to those who writes children story in order to sport the interest of reading and enjoy having better understanding. So that they will recommend those writings to their children to enrich them spiritual food。 At the end，the thesis will sum up with categorizing story style. With the help of my thesis, I hope readers can learn more insights of those colorful and enjoyable stories.
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Lee, Su chuan, and 李素娟. "Study of Metamorphic stories within Tang Dynasty Tales." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76576473862842831439.
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Hu, Li-Hua, and 胡麗華. "A Study of Hsiao-Chen Lai’s Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56280761977091182580.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
語文與創作學系語文教學碩士班
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A Study of Hsiao-Chen Lai’s Fairy Tales Abstract When it comes to 1990s, the development of fairy tales in Taiwan has become prosperously. The new generation fairy tale female writer Hsiao-Chen Lai’s work is very distinctive. Her works has diverse styles, original and multi-dimensional topics, vivid image of the characters, complicated and interesting plots and multi-changes of narrative techniques. The purpose of this study is to discuss the meaning of Hsiao-Chen Lai’s works, to analyze her writing art; to make comments appropriately so to provide a resource to elementary school teachers in teaching fairy tales. This study focuses on the work-centered theory, and adopts the “Text Analysis” and “Document Analysis”. This study focuses on the specialty of the contents and writing skills of Hsiao-Chen Lai’s fairy tales. The study is categorized into 7 chapters. The outlines and abstracts are as follows: Chapter 1 “Introduction” starts from explaining the research motives, the purposes, the range and methods. Then it expounds the document discussed in mainland China and Taiwan. The document research includes books, periodicals, research papers and book reviews, etc. Chapter 2 “The background of Hsiao-Chen Lai’s fairy tales creation” advances the fringe discussion. It starts from describing the experience how Hsiao-Chen Lai becomes a professional writer and points out the writing style change after her father’s death. In the meantime, it is through the writer’s works and other people’s analysis articles to help understanding the personality and the creation theory of the the writer. From chapter 3 to chapter 6, the study reaches Hsiao-Chen Lai’s fairy tales, mainly through the analysis of the works contents and styles. Chapter 3 “Theme”, is classified into four parts; “the description of valuable friendship”, “the expression to the viewpoints of love”, “ the emphasis of growing up happily” and “ the irony of the society phenomena”. All the four parts are educational. Chapter 4 “Character” first researches the image of children, adults, and other figures, then illustrate the description skills of different characters. Finally, it analyses the meaning of the performance of characters. In the analysis, some distinctions would come out such as the subversion of the good and evil, the reverse of the cliché of characters, the interpretation of distinct characters, and the interpretation of sexual equality consciousness. Chapter 5 “Plot” is to probe the writing skills such as the design and reconciliation out of conflicts; the construction and foreshadowing of suspension. This chapter also points out unreasonable plots occasionally. Chapter 6 “Viewpoint” discusses the specialty in description of Hsiao-Chen Lai’s fairy tales through writing viewpoints and narration. Chapter 7 “Conclusion” sums up the research findings. It induces that Hsiao-Chen Lai is the very important fairy tales writer in Taiwan for the past 20 yeas. Her works bring positive impact on children. Key words：Hsiao-Chen Lai, Fairy Tale, Theme, Character, Plot, Viewpoint
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Su, Shiue-luen, and 蘇雪倫. "A Study on Chinese Stone Statue Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07350725791740310593.
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碩士國立臺南大學
國語文學系碩士班
100
This study is based on the characters of Chinese fairy tales in which has stone statues and features the methods of “personifying stones”, “objectifying stones”, or “people transforming into stones”, ranging over folk fairy tales and creative fairy tales. It analyzes the background, characters of stone statues, and qualities. It attempts to analyze and discuss the feature and value on Chinese stone statue fairy tales. The study includes seven chapters. Chapter One, Introduction, states the motive and purpose, the method and process, the document discussion, the range and limitations of the study. Chapter Two demarcates stone statue fairy tales. It presents the demarcation, origin, classification, and the elements of stone statue fairy tales. It also introduces the text of Chinese stone statue fairy tales. Chapter Three presents the background of producing Chinese stone statue fairy tales. It discusses it from different aspects, such as the origin of human cultures, human commitment to spirit, the influence of classic literature, stone objects of art, etc. Chapter Four discusses the characters of Chinese stone statue fairy tales and analyzes the cause, appearance of stone statues, and the relationships of characters of ordinary human, personifying human, surpassing human. Chapter Five analyzes the qualities of Chinese stone statue fairy tales, based on the aspects of text subjects, themes, and stating skills. Chapter Six compares stone statue fairy tales. It compares the text details of similar fairy tales and stone statue fairy tales. Chapter Seven, conclusion, reviews the study contents and concludes the advantages, features and value of Chinese stone statue fairy tales.
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Wang, Ying-Ting, and 王盈婷. "A Study of Humorous Fairy Tales by Zhou Rui." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57284163153540616491.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
語文與創作學系碩士班
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Zhou Rui is a Chinese contemporary fairy tale writer, he has a lot of writings, and is known for its humor. In 2003, his works “Humor Series” made him one of the best-selling writers in Mainland China. Since 2009, part of “Humor Series” such as “Humor Xi-You”, “Humor San-Guo”, “Humor Shui-Hu”, “Humor Hong-Lou”, and “Humor Liao-Zhai” also published in Taiwan continually. It makes Zhou Rui not only the first Chinese writer but also the most productive and the most rapid-publishing one in Taiwan since 1987. The Zhou-Rui-effect in Taiwan is quite unusual to the publishing, so is worthy of research. This study is trying to explore how Zhou Rui presents his humor by analyzing the plots, characterization of roles, and linguistic style in the “Humorous Series”. This paper includes five chapters. Chapter one includes the purpose of this research, literature review, research scope and method. In chapter two, would mainly focus on the anachronistic, surprising, and ridiculous features of the plots designing. Chapter three focuses on the characters in Zhou’s humorous fairy tales. The characterization of roles could be concisely concluded with three different ways as exaggerating, inverting, and originating by the degrees of converting the roles of original classics. Chapter four discusses language performance, conclude with three different features by his using homonym, syntactical variation and pluralistic structures. Finally, chapter five concludes and summarizes the focus of each chapter and presents the features and contributions of Zhou’s writings, review the advantages and disadvantages, to give objective evaluations and suggestions, and future research directions.
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LIN, SHAN-JU, and 林珊如. "A Study on Witch Images in Western Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bssn2n.
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碩士世新大學
資訊傳播學研究所(含碩專班)
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Modern images of witches have been simplified to the point where they can be depicted in very few words or a single outline, or even represented by a hat. Witches are among the most traditional images in western art. They originated from the goddess of wisdom in mythology and developed into fairy tales. Witches have evolved into symbols of magic and evil power. As circulating in various texts they have never been absent in the history of art. Through popular prints and art works, the collective imagination of the world's image of witches has been fostered, which has been deeply rooted in western culture. After the 17th century, stories full of magic and fairy fantasies were welcomed by the masses. Fairy tales thus were assembled from folk sources, not only have rich legendary characters but also various exaggerated or marvelous descriptions therein. And witches have common features such as magic power, cruel, brutal or stereotyped as stepmother, even an image of utmost ugliness. Hunting witches in Europe belongs to one period of women's history of persecution, mainly comes from religious conflict, economic change, state power operation, class bias, power dominance and patriarchal social factors such as gender discrimination and misogyny. Although foresaid mechanism left ineffaceable historical marks, witchcraft representation has been recorded and evidenced through different eras, as in medieval and early modern theological books, manuals of hunting witch illustration, paintings and even literary works. The increase of evil witch images in fairy tales is closely related to this historical background. Witch punishment in stories also imitates real historical scenes. With the rise of feminist movement and the awakening of female consciousness in the 20th century, people have realized the deeply rooted patriarchal ideology in traditional fairy tales and its negative impact on children and women. There are many interactions between female characters in classic fairy tales, but their relationship is not harmonious in usual, especially the prevalent conflict between stepmothers and stepdaughters. A Stepmother is often depicted as vicious and mean, with hatred and persecuting children not biologically her own, and such invariable plot might reveal well one apparent prejudice in our secular society.
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Liu, Chung-hsuan, and 劉仲瑄. "Adaptation of Children’s Tales from Folklore:A Case Study of Stories Told by the Moon in Lin-Tong Fu’s Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27778097440384827795.
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碩士國立臺南大學
國語文學系碩士班
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Folktales crystallize a folk’s living and thinking, while folktales for children form a source of knowledge and pleasure for a folk’s youngsters. Children’s tales, when based on or originated from folktales, re-created under norms and demands of children’s literature, and shared in the same time with characteristics of children’s and folk literature, can flavor our cultural legacies left by ancestors with modern elements, and therefore provide children with more pleasure of reading. This thesis contains contents involving children literature, folklore, and comparative literature. To start with, concepts of folktales, children’s tales, original tales for children, and folktales for children are accounted respectively. After this follows the part of extrinsic study, which begin with an introduction to the object text and then carry on to other intertextual works that are still circulating. Topics and materials of each story from the object text are analyzed in the part of intrinsic research. As for the part of form research, the focus is laid on characterization, structure arrangement, and scenery description. Adaptation techniques can be concluded and a more systematic set of adapting methods formulated through the analysis of the text--in the aim of utilizing these methods as a guide for beginning writers committed to children’s tales, or adopting them as standards in teaching children how to compose an adaptation writing.
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Fang, Huang Yu, and 黃玉芳. "The Study of Chia Chen Wang’s Fairy Tales（1992~2003）." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qhyh86.
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碩士國立臺東大學
兒童文學研究所
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This thesis is trying to research Chia Chen Wang’s works based on the background of her growing up, the origin of her writing career, the cultivation of reading with pleasure and her thoughts about creation. As the characteristics of Chia Chen Wang’s creations, I would analyze and conclude the subject genres of her fairy tales, discussing the meanings within the subjects, the presentation of her works, the cogitations of the plots, the writing skills of developing each plot, the cogitations of scenes, the images of characters, how she described each character and the features of characters in the stories, to search for the creating styles of fairy tales in Chia Chen Wang’s works. In short, the subjects in Chia Chen Wang’s fairy tales mainly show the life philosophy. She tried to establish children to have a positive and aggressive value. The plots are mostly used the one-way structure ‘fore-dropping and post-rising’, the plot arrangements tend to emphasize the positive. Each character could solve the problems successfully and get to the perfect endings. The scene architectonic is most based on the factious and fantasy world existed in the reality. The scenes she created include the reality within the real world, the illusory world, even the combination of fake and reality. She has children experience the novelty and delights. The character settings are most the anthropopathic images. She integrated human nature and creatures successfully and conceived relevantly and wonderfully. We could see the originalities and humors within Chia Chen Wang’s works. Chia Chen Wang is good at applying fairy tales to her teaching. She makes efforts for popularizing children’s literature and falls over herself in it. The features in her fairy tales are: clear and definite subjects, aiming at children’s life issues. She makes the vivid and colorful stories, endows with generous the delights of children’s imaginations. The scenes she made are illustrious and factual, building the atmosphere of children’s sights. The characters have lively personalities that wake up poignant children’s imagery.
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Chang, Te-Hsin, and 張得歆. "A Study of Tales About Gan-jiang and Mo-xie." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8r6235.
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碩士國立中央大學
中國文學系碩士在職專班
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A Study of Tales About Gan-jiang and Mo-xie Abstract The famous story of ancient blacksmith couple, Gan-jiang and Mo-xie , has been reinterpreted and deduced since the dynasty of Eastern Han, with its literary value profoundly embodied. This paper aimed to: (1) analyze its heritage and development in each era, so as to construct the vertical veining; (2) investigate its spreading through space and various forms, so at to expand its horizontal connection; and (3) observe human mind behind the cultural context with insights into the internal meaning of the storyline. Materials gathered from ancient literature, archeology, folklores, verses, dramas, and dances were applied to understand the forming and the basic framework of the story. Further, the development and spreading of the story throughout different ages were examined to elucidate its diversity and abundance of literary meanings. Finally, the charms of the story were expressed through the investigation into the internal significances. With splendors on culture of different eras, the story of Gan-jiang and Mo-xie can be considered as an immortal subject in literal art. The investigation into this story not only explained its development through history but also provided a glimpse at human’s fetish-worship toward sword and the cultural psychology of revenge. This was the value of the research.
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Lin, Fang-shih, and 林芳仕. "A Study on the Female Images in Andersen’s Fairy Tales." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11590558546970666510.
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碩士國立臺南大學
國語文學系國語文教學碩士班
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As a pioneer in children’s literature, Andersen’s fairy tales are the most important memories in people’s childhood. These valuable works have been translated into many languages and published in many countries around the world, and they have been attractive to children and adults that made Andersen win the reputation of “King of the fairy tales”. Considered as a model of the modern fantasy, Andersen is the first one who attempted to create his own fairy tales. Female characters of the stories, such as the princesses and the witches, deeply impress the readers most of the time. Andersen is good at handling psychology of children to create outstanding personalities and vivid characters and extend the imagination fairy tales. This thesis is divided into six sections. In Chapter I, introduction, which is composed of motivation, worth, research methodology, literature review as well as research limitation. In Chapter II, dissertator with fairy tales, Andersen’s background, and the development of Andersen’s fairy tales are introduced. In Chapter III, focuses on the presentations and symbols of civilian female characters. In Chapter IV, focuses on the presentations and symbols of noble female characters. In Chapter V, focuses on the presentations and symbols of magical female characters. Chapter VI, the conclusion and recommendations.