The purpose of this article is to show that Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Little Mermaid and Grimms' tale The Nix of the Mill-pond are probably derived from the same source, have been created ...out of the same material. However, the results of the creative process are completely different because the writers -- Andersen and Wilhelm Grimm -- had quite divergent conceptions of authorship. / Gezeigt werden soll, wie Hans Christian Andersens Kunstmarchen Die kleine Meerjungfrau und das Grimm-Marchen Die Nixe im Teich vermutlich aus den gleichen Quellen geschopft werden konnten, aus demselben Stoff geformt wurden und doch ganzlich andere Ergebnisse brachten, weil die Verfasser -- Andersen und Wilhelm Grimm -- vollig andere Vorstellungen von Autorschaft hatten. / Cet article se propose de montrer que les deux contes La petite sirene de Hans Christian Andersen et L'ondine dans son etang des freres Grimm ont probablement ete puises de la meme source, crees a partir de la meme matiere. Cependant, les resultats de ces procedes creatifs sont tout a fait differents a cause des conceptions divergeantes qu'avaient les deux ecrivains, Andersen et Wilhelm Grimm. web URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/fabl.2015.56.issue-3-4/fabula-2015-3-403/fabula-2015-3-403.xml?format=INT
The Eco-Imaginative Space of the Garden in Contemporary Children's Picture Books," Melissa Li Sheung Ying focuses on the importance of the garden as an educational space for children, arguing that it ...invites them into a greater environmental consciousness and, hopefully, activism. The aesthetic design of Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography is beautiful—a compliment worth noting about an edition concerned with space and materiality. Besides its physical appeal, Hudson's collection provides readers a variety of genres including the critical essay, interview, and narrative prose through which to explore imaginative geographies in children's literature. A particular strength of the collection is that the essays included are not just US-centric; the essays touch on works for young people written in the Northern Hemisphere, including Canada, Britain, the US, and Ireland. Because of the geographical diversity of the authors, the critical essays examine important topics in imaginative geographies, such as Indigenous sense of place, emigration from one's homeland to unfamiliar geographies, and a variety of topoi from the gardens of Britain to the coastline of Ireland.
In Cervantes’s El retablo de las maravillas, which is based on the international folk tale known as The Emperor’s New Clothes, the women spectators jump on top of chairs and wrap their skirts tightly ...around their ankles when the narrator describes a great number of mice that supposedly appear on stage. A Portuguese folk story that I recorded in 1975 from an old lady from Madeira in San Diego, California, confirms that the women are so terrified because mice were seen as being phallic. A second tale, a border joke recorded in 1974 from an immigrant from Trás-os-Montes in Toronto, which tells how a Spaniard and a Portuguese try to inflate an ass in order to sell it for a better price, shows that Cervantes was inspired by a similar story in order to chastise Avellaneda for daring to write a continuation of Part I of Don Quijote. These two stories, of course, help to confirm the importance of the relationship between folklore and literature.
The Snow Queen (1845), by Hans Christian Andersen, and Snow White (1812) by the Brothers Grimm. ...we will focus on the relation of Pizarnik's work with its explicit hypotext, Valentine Penrose's La ...comtesse sanglante, considering the aforementioned, that is, the way fairy tales operate as a matrix in this transfer. Freud, en cierta medida, desestima la importancia de los factores apuntados por Ernst Jentsch, para quien el caso por excelencia de lo siniestro es "'la duda de que un ser aparentemente animado sea en efecto viviente; y a la inversa: de que un objeto sin vida esté en alguna forma animado', aduciendo con tal fin la impresión que despiertan las figuras de cera, las muñecas sabias y los 'autómatas'" (2488). Por otra parte, con respecto a la asociación entre sexualidad y violencia que percibimos en "La Reina de las Nieves", cuando ocurre el pasaje a la adolescencia del personaje masculino, cabe señalar que esto coincide con el planteo de LCS: "Si el acto sexual implica una suerte de muerte, Erzébet Báthory necesitaba de la muerte visible, elemental, grosera, para poder, a su vez, morir de esa muerte figurada que viene a ser el orgasmo" (Pizarnik 287). "The Snow Queen".
Hans Christian Andersen's “The Snow Queen” might be considered as one of the most beloved fairy-tale plots in Russian culture and is surprisingly popular among contemporary Russian-speaking writers ...of fan fiction. In the article, fan fiction devoted to Andersen's tale is analyzed through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods in order to reflect on more general questions about the process of retelling. “The Snow Queen” stimulates fan-fiction authors to rethink the topic of love triangle. These authors propose their own visions of the conflict by concentrating on gender roles and unrealistic representations of human relationships. A semiotic perspective is employed to show the how metacommunication is a multistage process and a key mechanism of cultural dynamics.
Pr., 2015) xiii + 227 $24.95 Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture and Melanie Keene, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain ...join join a well-established body of scholarship on the Victorian fascination with folklore, fairy belief and various forms of fairy narrative - from Richard Dorson's landmark book The British Folklorists: A History (1968) to Molly Clark Hillard's recent Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians (2014). In Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture, she turns to canonical works of children's literature (such as Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, Mary Louisa Molesworth's Christmas-Tree Land, and Edith Nesbit's Five Children and It); periodicals for adults (The Strand) and for children (primarily Aunt Judy's Magazine, Boy's Own Magazine and John Newbery's Lilliputian Magazine); classic fairy tales (by Charles Perrault, the Borthers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen) - as well as lesser-known science education texts that draw with surprising frequency on discourses associated with magic, fantasy, and fairy. In some cases, popular science texts suggest that works of natural history could well replace traditional fairy tales as the favored reading material of early childhood, as is the case in the 1863 English edition of Louis Figuier's World Before the Deluge (51).
A feminist/queer/crip close textual reading of Disney's The Little Mermaid and its straight-to-DVD sequel, The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, uncovers contrasting cultural narratives of ...disability. The first film, and mermaid Ariel's story line, represent conservative ideologies of compulsory able-bodiedness and the need for overcoming disability, as well as a strongly reinforced binary of merfolk versus humans. Conversely, the sequel, and (Ariel's and Prince Eric's daughter) Melody's narrative, imagine more progressive desirably disabled futurities and welcome hybrid embodiments through the process of shifting societal perspectives and deconstructing binaries that work to other those with nonnormative bodies.
The fairy tale has a special role in forming Gianni Rodari's mind-set and writing. Fairy tales, with their ability to overturn social and cultural customs, models of behavior, and hierarchies of ...class and species were an inexhaustible driving mechanism for the creativity of this Italian children's writer. He also drew much inspiration from fairy tales for his educational works on the subject of childhood and imagination. The aim of this contribution is to reflect on the value that Rodari attributed to the fairy tale within an educational setting aimed at young generations, a vital mediator between adult culture and childhood culture.
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