Response: Do we believe in fairy tales?

What Do We Believe In?

In this article, I will outline, how three meaning theoretic paradigms deal with the content of belief, and what difficulties each of them faces: the Fregean approach, the Neo-Russellian or direct reference approach, and the dualist approach as a mixture of both. The Fregean approach stipulates senses that correspond to linguistic expressions and fulfill various roles such as determining the tr...

A Book on Therapeutic Storytelling A review of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales

The book of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales, is one of the best books that one can read for the study of Jung’s psychology for two reasons: first, the author was one of the best students of Jung and his colleague for years; secondly, it analyzes the symbols and the concepts of Jungian psychology. This book expertly introduces the concepts of shadow, anima, ...

ETS representation of fairy tales

This paper presents a preliminary application of the ETS formalism to the structural representation of Russian fairy tales. We were led to this application through our interest in information retrieval. In addition to introducing a natural multi-level representational view of fairy tales, the ETS formalism suggests an explanation for the mechanism behind plot anticipation by an experienced read...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Emotional Sequencing and Development in Fairy Tales

Affect is a transient phenomenon, with emotions tending to blend and interact over time [4]. This paper discusses emotional distributions in child-directed texts. It provides statistical evidence for the relevance of emotional sequencing, and evaluates trends of emotional story development, based on annotation statistics on 22 Grimms’ fairy tales which form part of a larger on-going text-annota...