Fairy Tale

Fairy Tales as a Forerunner of European Children's Literature: Cross-border Fairy Tale Materials and Fairy Tale Motifs

Due to the Romantic movement there was a growing attention for recording oral tradition. Pedagogues advocating an independent literature for children recognized the importance of folktales especially for the mediation of bourgeois virtues and social norms. Influenced by the stilistic model of the Brother Grimm's Household Tales and as a result of the propagation of national literatures, a broad...

Himalayan Folklore and the Fairy Tale Genre

Based on fieldwork by the author conducted in Tibetan cultural areas of the Indian Himalayas, this paper explores Himalayan understandings of what defines a fairy tale, in contrast to the Western understanding. In parts of the Himalayas, a distinction is made between “lakshung” (fairy tales) and “kyakshung”, which are shorter stories, the kind one might tell over tea. In light of the proposals ...

Informed consent--a fairy tale? Law's vision.

Voice creation for conversational fairy-tale characters

The NICE fairy-tale game system allows users to interact with conversational fairy-tale characters in a 3D world environment. Apart from engaging in conversation, the characters are able to perform physical actions in this simulated world. The goal is to create believable fairy-tale characters with distinct personalities. The personality of the characters will be conveyed by their appearance, t...

The "Cinderella effect" is no fairy tale.

committed mateships (v) men paired with physically attractive women exhibit elevated jealous mate-guarding, whereas (vi) women paired with more resource-endowed men exhibit more jealous mate-guarding [7]. (vii) Near ovulation – the critical window in which a man’s paternity probability is compromised by a partner’s sexual infidelity – men increase jealous mate-guarding [8]. Cognitively, relativ...