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Dans tous les contes, mythes et légendes, les princesses ont toujours raison : ce sont elles qui consentent, qui décident, qui agissent. Elles ont un atout extraordinaire : leur grande sensibilité, qui leur permet de détecter les signaux faibles et de triompher des emmerdes. Dans ce livre, Fabrice Midal propose une lecture philosophique et décapante de cette sagesse dont nous avons hérité mais que nous négligeons. Autrefois, ces histoires n'étaient pas destinées aux enfants : elles s'adressaient aux adultes pour éclairer l'énigme de la condition humaine. Véhiculant un savoir profond, ces histoires donnent des clés pour affronter toutes les formes de violence, d'ignorance et de haine que nous rencontrons dans nos sociétés actuelles.
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Classic text republished as an e-book.
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Fairy Tale Review is an annual journal devoted to fairy tales, contemporary and historical. Each issue contains poetry, fiction, and essays that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. It is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, ""a venue for all writers working with the aesthetics and motifs of fairy tales."" Contributors to Fairy Tale Review: The Green Issue include: Brian Baldi, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Jedediah Berry, Paula Bohince, Wendy Brenner, Ayse Papatya Bucak, Rikki Ducornet, Johannes Goransson, Ann Jaderlund, D
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Fairy tales are alive with the supernatural - elves, dwarfs, fairies, giants, and trolls, as well as witches with magic wands and sorcerers who cast spells and enchantments. Children into Swans examines these motifs in a range of ancient stories. Moving from the rich period of nineteenth-century fairy tales back as far as the earliest folk literature of northern Europe, Jan Beveridge shows how long these supernatural features have been a part of storytelling, with ancient tales, many from Celtic and Norse mythology, that offer glimpses into a remote era and a pre-Christian sensibility. The earliest stories often show significant differences from what we might expect. Elves mingle with Norse gods, dwarfs belong to a proud clan of magician-smiths, and fairies are shape-shifters emerging from the hills and the sea mist. In story traditions with roots in a pre-Christian imagination, an invisible other world exists alongside our own. From the lost cultures of a thousand years ago, Children into Swans opens the door on some of the most extraordinary worlds ever portrayed in literature - worlds that are both starkly beautiful and full of horrors.
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Fairy tales --- -#VCV monografie 2002 --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- History and criticism --- #VCV monografie 2002
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A selection of the tales told by Shahrazad in an attempt to save her life, including "The Young Woman and Her Five Lovers," "The Fisherman and the Jinnee," "The Historic Fart," and "The Tale of Kafur the Black Eunuch."
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With this collection, the author retells 36 Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from around the world, the stories are characterized by their infusion of traditional Jewish characters or by their treatment of Jewish religious themes.
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If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold--and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever-growing variety of media. In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century; Catherine Breillat's film adaptation of Perrault's "Bluebeard"; and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. While we may never be able to fully explain fairy tales, The Irresistible Fairy Tale provides a powerful theory of how and why they evolved--and why we still use them to make meaning of our lives.
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