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fairy tale

and bedtime story
n. a simplistic and condescending explanation for something; a lie. I don’t want to hear a fairy tale, just the facts, ma’am. I’ve already heard your little bedtime story. You’ll have to do better than that!
See also: fairy, tale
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Ellen Peters, the community engagement manager at Spokane Public Library, recently shared all the juicy details of her Curiosity Creates Fantastical Fairy Tales program for grades 4-8.
Curiosity creates fantastical fairy tales
After the introductory lectures, we then proceeded to the fairy tale discussions.
Once upon a time in world history: Fairy tales as primary sources
Ultimately, Children into Swans is a finely researched work on the history of fairy tales, and, in particular, on the lingering pagan imagination that one finds within a dozen or so common fairy tale themes and elements.
Children Into Swans: Fairy Tales and the Pagan imagination
Financially Independent So I Don't Need A Man Fairy Tale Twist In a twist on the traditional fairy tale, a woman might say she doesn't need a man because she's already financially independent.
And they all lived happily ever after; MARIA CROCE takes a look at a new book that tells you how to find Prince Charming
All have been trained to closely interact with the children, who can choose a fairy tale outfit to dress up in on arrival, or arrive as their own favourite character.
Fairy tales fun in the Garden
Despite Carrassi's radical departure from the conventions of fairy tale studies, the text begins with a well-researched overview of the existing scholarship.
Carrassi, Vito. The Irish Fairy Tale: A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens
This view accords with the long-standing tendency in fairy tale scholarship to read these supposedly "mythical" tales as responses to social conditions.
Fairy tales in the modern(ist) world: Gerhart Hauptmann's Bahnwarter Thiel and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's das Gemeindekind
Positing that evidence of racial and cultural origins was discernible in the developmental stages of juvenile descendants, the recapitulation theory recast the child as living analogy to early humankind: thus the fairy tale, as an artistic vehicle for ancient oral societies, was formulated as apt reading material for the modern child.
Caroline Sumpter, The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale
Fairy tale writing in Slovenian is best contextualized with youth literature and this literary genre has taken off in the nineteenth century first via the establishment of the secular children's newspaper in 1848-50 entitled Vedez: casopis za mladost sploh pa tudi za odrasene proste ljudi (Vedez: Newspaper for Youth and Adults Alike) and via the literary magazine Vrtec: casopis s podobami za slovensko mladost (Kindergarten: Newspaper with Images for Slovenian Youth) 1871-1945.
A survey of Slovenian women fairy tale writers
Bacchilega creates an interesting opening for the reader by examining how contemporary understandings and social uses of the fairy tale have changed since the 1970s in the Euro-American history of the genre.
Cristina Bacchilega. Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations & the Politics of Wonder
The Grimm's Fairy Tales are also said to be the most influential collections of folklore in the world.
Google celebrates 200th anniversary of Grimm's Fairy Tales with doodle
Greenhill and Matrix's edited volume Fairy Tale Films explores the relationship between fairy tales and their twentieth- and twenty-first-century film adaptations.
Explorations of childhood in a modern age: a review of three books that engage with fairy-tale literature
In an Arabic fairy tale, you can find the magical elements such as a genie.
The Arab perspective on fables
The thematic issue on the fairy tale consists of eight articles: one on the Cuban fairy tale, one on tales by the Brothers Grimm, one on the Norwegian fairy tale and five on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.
Introduction to topic on Hans Christian Andersen and the fairy tale
In fact, Hawthorne might have agreed with Jack Zipes's description of fairy tales as vehicles to "awaken our regard for the miraculous condition of life and to evoke profound feelings of awe and respect for life as a miraculous process" (Great Fairy Tale Tradition 848).
Fairy precincts of the real: recovering the miraculous in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
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