Mechanisms of co-presence in repetitive drama studio performances by Željka Flegar, Grozdana Lajić Horvat

“…The mentoring is present both outside and inside the play as mentors guide their students, assume some of the roles, and provide a meaningful framework and direction of the play. Fairy tales and well-known literary texts can be used as starting points; they are adapted and transformed on the spot. …”
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Madame de Genlis on the Victorian Stage by Juan Manuel Ibeas Altamira

“…Gilbert’s adaptation of Madame de Genlis’s fairy tale, Le palais de vérité. The play ran for approximately 140 performances, toured the British provinces, and enjoyed various revivals. …”
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Preface to the Special Issue by Merili Metsvahi

“…Preface to the Special Issue "Fairy Tales – Tellers, Tellings and Interpretations".…”
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« For the Childlike is the Divine » : la quête de la jeunesse éternelle dans les contes et romances de George MacDonald by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…A link may be found between the Bildungsroman genre and MacDonald’s fairy tales and romances because of the obvious didactic function of the latter. …”
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POSITIONING TRANG’S STORIES IN THE NARRATIVE GENRE OF VIETNAMESE FOLKLORE by Nguyễn Ngọc Chiến

“…Through the difference of the Trang’s stories, we want to consider the genre of Trang’s stories in comparison with the categories of fairy tales, allegories, and jokes. Especially, in this article, we outline the development of Trang’s stories of Vietnamese folklore. …”
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Teksty narracyjne uczniów w świetle morfologii Władimira Proppa by Joanna Maria Garbula

“…The analyses demonstrated that most stories created by early school pupils assume the form of modified and updated fairy tales, with a different number of functions. …”
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A Gameplay Definition through Videogame Classification by Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Gilles Methel, Pierre Molinier

“…Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have identified recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames, that we called “Gameplay Bricks”. …”
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A Storyteller’s Autobiographical Analysis of Himself by Gábor Biczó

“…In his stories, Ámi applied a lot of autobiographical elements (also in fairy tales) and so the question arises, what does the term autobiographical mean in the context of folk tales? …”
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Myth and Immortality in Russian Folktales by Enrique Santos Marinas

“…As Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp already set out in his monograph <i>Theory and History of Folklore</i> (1984), folktales, and in particular fairy tales, could preserve the remnants of myths and rites from very ancient stages of human civilisation, dating back to Prehistoric times themselves. …”
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Abdominal Obesity by Erica Bub, Karla Shelnutt, Gail Kauwell

“…Although this may be cute in fairy tales or movies, abdominal obesity can be a serious health risk in the real world. …”
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Abdominal Obesity by Erica Bub, Karla Shelnutt, Gail Kauwell

“…Although this may be cute in fairy tales or movies, abdominal obesity can be a serious health risk in the real world. …”
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Możliwości współczesnej recepcji utworów Stanisława Jachowicza, dydaktycznej literatury dziewiętnastowiecznej by Beata Telatyńska

“…By conducting a nineteenth century and a contemporary reading of his narrations, she examines the possible contexts of reading Jachowicz’s didactic literature, concentrating primarily on his fairy tales. Although, from the point of view of contemporary pedagogy, Jachowicz’s educational methods are outdated and inadequate to give guidance on the realities that the children of today face, one can find universal elements in the writer’s work, for example, respect for another person, work, money or empathy. …”
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Stimulation of child's sexual imitation behavior through Neurolinguistic programming by Edhy Rustan

“…In dealing with these behaviors, a Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) approach can be used where parents play a role in training the independence of children by (1) creating a pleasant atmosphere for children (2) giving positive suggestions through fairy tales. While in school teachers provide positive education and suggestions through learning programs in schools by integrating sexual education into the appropriate learning themes.…”
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Images of the Pleiades of the Turkic and Mongolic Peoples by Marina M. Sodnompilova, Bair Z. Nanzatov

“…Unique images of the Pleiades in the ideas of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples arose in the process of interaction of different languages ​​and cultures, understanding and interpretation of different versions of the names of the Pleiades, integration of disparate plot-forming elements in myths, fairy tales, legends. …”
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From occupation to independence: contemporary East Timorese history and identity in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos

“…This unusual picturebook, characterised by a very simple and sparse, almost poetic, text combined with large-format pictures, depicts this chapter of the contemporary history of East Timor in very specific way, resembling fairy tales or legends. The text and images are combined in order to promote symbolic readings, suggesting a magical/mystical environment that impresses readers. …”
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‘A queer combination of a child’s mind with a grown-up joke’: Dickens’s Child Narrators in Holiday Romance (1868) by Isabelle Hervouet

“…Holiday Romance, written by Dickens and first published in 1868, is a collection of four tales for children in which Dickens indulges his penchant for fairy tales, child-like vision and verbal play. It features four child narrators embarked on a mission: adults are at so great a remove from childhood that they are unable to see the importance of imagination and of story-telling; the four children will have to reinvent the world and tell adults what it should be like. …”
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Orality in the cultural area of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Ćurguz Jelena

“…Also, the old oral literature and expressions are still alive today, which are passed down from generation to generation - e.g. songs, fairy tales, proverbs, sayings, anecdotes, curses, rhymes and lullabies, and many people have specific nicknames. …”
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Metaphor in Psychotherapy by Nergis Lapsekili, Zekeriya Yelbo&eth;a

“…Metaphor has been an essential feature of human communication from time immemorial: fairy tales, parables, provers are all examples of metaphor. …”
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Misères et splendeurs d’un mendicant dans 'Le Seigneur vous le rendra' de Mahi Binebine by Mohamed Semlali

“…We propose to read this story as a picaresque tale with symbolic significance: the protagonist, forced to beg from birth, bears the brunt of his own mother’s monstrosity and dislike, worthy of the worst of the fairy tales. Driven by poverty, the mother takes possession of her child’s body and sculpts a deformed being that will be exhibited in the main square of Marrakech to earn a living. …”
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