The aim of this doctoral thesis is to show how the Jungian process of individuation — the psychological development of a unique individual — is depicted in the fairy tales of the twentieth-century Spanish writer, Carmen Martín Gaite. The three shorter tales — El castillo de las tres murallas, El pastel del diablo and Caperucita en Manhattan — are explored here along with the novel, La reina de las nieves. Individuation, as well as being the means by which an individual person develops, also implies a new way of relating between human beings. Jung described the outcome of individuation as ‘objective cognition’ which, this thesis argues, is equivalent to love and conscious relatedness between persons. Dreams play a crucial role in the individuation process — as they do in the work of Martín Gaite — guiding the dreamer on his/her journey. Dreams facilitate encounters with aspects of the personal and collective unconscious, which appear in symbolic form. The protagonist of the story by Martín Gaite which is closest to a traditional fairy tale (El castillo de las tres murallas) and the novel which takes a traditional tale as its reference point (La reina de las nieves) illustrate the importance of dreams in the development of the protagonists. At the heart of each of the other two tales — El pastel del diablo and Caperucita en Manhattan — is an imagined text which illustrates, in symbolic form, aspects of the individuation process. Connections have been made in Jungian thinking between individuation and the development of Christianity into a third age, the Age of the Holy Spirit, because of the major shift in consciousness (akin to the change which occurred 2000 years ago with the birth of Christ). Alongside the exploration of individuation in the fairy tales, this thesis also considers parallels with the Christian story and indications of its development or renewal.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:45:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valeria da Rocha Aveiro.pdf: 1657212 bytes, checksum: d61a0a8662916e6726f11064a7959d2b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-07 / This study concerns about the analysis of the tales The young king, by Oscar Wilde, and The beauty and the beast or the too big wound, by Clarice Lispector, through the treatment that considers such texts as dialogues with folk tales. It enphasizes the tradicional fairy tale The beauty and the beast, that is considered as a starting point and arrival in relation to the mentioned structures and contents of the texts, according to the analogies that can be estabilished amongst them. With focus on the existencialist subject related to the questions of appearance and essence, its possible to arrive to a reflexion about the language of the art which has a dialogue with the culture. The texts are read stablishing a linking between the myths Narciso and Adonis which shows an intersemiotic relashionship with pictures that reveal the myths.The characters of the tales get a new meaning when they are looked at the pictures of Vênus and Adônis by Peter Paul Rubens, and Narciso by Caravaggio. To grasp the deep structures of the texts, verbal or noverbal, and to exam the intertextuality of the mecanisms, it was used theories related to filosophy of the language, to aesthetics concepcions that guide the reading of folktales and the mythical elements. / O estudo que aqui se apresenta realiza a análise dos contos O jovem rei (The young king), de Oscar Wilde, e A bela e a fera ou a ferida grande demais, de Clarice Lispector, por meio de uma abordagem que considera tais textos como sendo diálogos com os contos maravilhosos. Destaque-se o conto de fada tradicional A bela e a fera, que é tomado como ponto de partida e chegada quanto à estrutura e conteúdo dos mencionados textos, devido às analogias que podem ser estabelecidas entre si. Focada a temática existencialista relativa às questões de aparência e essência, parte-se para uma reflexão sobre a linguagem da arte dialogando com a cultura. Lêem-se os textos estabelecendo-se uma ponte com os mitos de Narciso e Adônis, constituída por uma relação intersemiótica com pinturas que tratam de releituras destes mitos. As personagens dos contos são re-significadas, mais uma vez, com o olhar que se estende para as telas Vênus e Adônis, de Peter Paul Rubens e Narciso, de Caravaggio instaurando outros cotejos. Para atingir as estruturas profundas dos textos, verbais e não-verbais, e examinar os mecanismos intertextuais, foram utilizadas teorias relacionadas à filosofia da linguagem, aos conceitos estéticos que norteiam as leituras dos contos maravilhosos e dos elementos míticos.

abstract: The study of genre literature in general, and fantasy or fairy tale literature in particular, by its very nature, falls outside the normal course of literary theory. This paper evaluates various approaches taken to create a framework within which scholarly research and evaluation of these types of genre literature might occur. This is done applying Secondary World theory to better-established literary foci, such as psychological analysis and monster theory while still respecting the premises posited in traditional literary inquiry. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis English 2019

Fool’s Gold is a collection of handmade books that illustrate selected Grimms’ fairy tales and offer an unexpected interpretation of the actions of the heroes. Each book displays a unique cover decoration, inspired by medieval European treasure bindings. Treasure bindings incorporate dimensional decorative elements such as gems, gold or other metalwork and often depict Christ's suffering. In a similar way, Fool's Gold beautifies the suffering of the protagonists using gold leaf, glass beads and lush illustrations. A traditional hidden fore-edge painting technique is used to reveal more scenes from each story. When the pages are fanned opened, the fore-edge paintings display the gruesome revenge the perceived heroes take upon the villains.

This collection of short stories explores themes of contemporary gender performance through the lens of the fairy tale. The stories examine both the reverberations canonical tales continue to have in American society today, and the new iterations of fairly tales we encounter in modern culture, particularly those which we burden young women through film and television. Within the collection of stylistic conceits and narrative concerns specific to the fairy tale, these stories feature isolated narrators and themes of journeying through the forest. Each of these tales presents a female character or characters going into a metaphorical woods; the stories also often invoke the literal woods. The idea of "the handsome prince" figures here as well, in different explorations (most often lampoons) of contemporary masculinity. Many of these stories also foreground the particular dynamics and complexities of relationships between women: friends, rivals, lovers, teachers and students, mothers and daughters.

Orientador: Susanna Busato / Banca: Karin Volobuef / Banca: João Luís Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini / Banca: Maria Celeste Tommasello Ramos / Banca: Maria Rosa Duarte de Oliveira / Resumo: Este trabalho de pesquisa propõe a análise dos contos de "Branca de Neve", a partir do registro feito pelos irmãos Grimm, nas versões de 1812 (1ª edição) e de 1857 (7ª edição). Partimos do conto napolitano escrito por Giambattista Basile, intitulado "A jovem escrava" (1634), considerado ancestral de "Branca de Neve", para compreender a dinâmica dos modos como a narrativa de Branca de Neve foi se apresentando a seus contadores. Focalizaremos a versão brasileira de Figueiredo Pimentel, no conto "Branca como a Neve" (1894); o conto "Neve, vidro e maçãs"(1998), de Neil Gaiman e, também, a versão cinematográfica, de 2012, Espelho, espelho meu, direção de Tarsem Singh. Pretendemos verificar nessas narrativas, de forma comparativa, as esferas de ação e as funções das personagens, atentando-nos para o modelo estrutural de Vladimir Propp, a fim de compreender como essas narrativas se estruturam e reconhecer nelas as variantes e invariantes, que nos darão elementos para pensar, também, os aspectos oriundos das temáticas do ciúme, da inveja e da vingança, e da eterna disputa entre o Bem e o Mal, que motivam a ação e os aspectos ideológicos daí decorrentes. A partir do princípio de que os contos de fadas não desaparecem, porque são narrativas vivas, em constante remodelação, ensejamos mostrar as modificações pelas quais passam com o tempo, motivadas que são pelo contexto sociocultural de produção. Em outras palavras, perguntamo-nos acerca dos modos como as reescrituras atualizam... / Abstract: This research analyses the 1812 (first edition) and the 1857 (seventh edition) of the "Snow White" short stories as collected by the Brothers Grimm. We begin our study with Giambattista Basile's "The Young Slave" (1634), a Napolitan short story seen as "Snow White's" ancestral, to see how the Snow White's tellers have conceived its narrative. For that, we concentrate on "White as Snow" (1894), the Brazilian version of this tale by Figueiredo Pimentel, on Neil Gaiman's short story "Snow, Glass and Apples" (1998) and also on Tarsem Singh's film version Mirror, Mirror (2012). We comparatively verify the spheres of action and the functions of the characters in these narratives through Vladimir Propp's structural model in order to understand how these narratives are structured and to spot in them the variants that will allow us to also think of the originating aspects of the themes of jealousy, envy and revenge, and of the endless battle between Good and Evil, which all motivate the action and the resulting ideological aspects. We intend to show that Fairy Tales do not disappear, because they are living narratives in constant remodeling which change through time, motivated by its social and cultural contexts of production. In other words, we inquire about the ways in which the rewritings of these Fairy Tales bring the Grimm Brothers' narrative we use as the basis of this study culturally up to date, and which meanings emerge from this. Which critical elements could be found in ... / Doutor

The Goose at Goldie's Milk Bar is a modern literary fairy tale written in the form of a novel for adult readers. Set in the fictional Australian small country town of Baxters Creek, it tells the story of Goldie Sullivan, an elderly former milk bar proprietor who has an affair with a gigantic cognisant gander. Goldie lives out the back of the town's old milk bar, hiding from the surrounding narrow-minded community, until late one night she witnesses a bolt of lightning strike the bell tower on the nearby church. When she goes to investigate, Goldie finds the body of a large bird buried in the debris and, believing it is an omen, she carries the half-dead bird home on her back. As she rehabilitates the bird, Goldie discovers there is more to the feathered creature than she first thought. The bird, a giant gander blown off course and struck down in the middle of migration, reveals an advanced awareness of humanity and the profound ability to comprehend the sorrow in Goldie's life. Through a shared appreciation of jazz music, Goldie and the goose learn to communicate and a close friendship ensues. Goldie teaches the goose to dance, the pair share baths and the goose moves into Goldie's bedroom. Before too long, Goldie finds herself in the midst of a most indecent affair. Goldie's relationship with the gander unfolds against a backdrop of other unconventional relationships. Kevin Dwyer, the new reporter in town finds himself drawn to the shire maintenance worker, Travis Handley. Real estate agent Alexander Bourke has taken Lynne Fontaine, the chef at the local Chinese restaurant, as his oriental mistress, and recently windowed farmer, Mary Peddley, sets tongues wagging with the one-legged publican, Jack Diamond. The novel uses the human animal narrative to explore the premise that fate is driven by unseen, sometimes magical forces that manifest in inexplicable ways to reveal the hidden truths of people. The writing of the novel has been supported by research conducted for an exegesis titled, The Nature of Human Animal Relationships in Three Modern Literary Fairy Tales. The exegesis identifies and discusses the nature of the central human animal relationships in three novels: Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Peter Hoeg's Woman and the Ape and the writing project, The Goose at Goldie's Milk Bar. The exegesis identifies and discusses the roles and functions the human and animal characters perform in the three novels through a comparative analysis of the narrative theories of early Russian Structuralist, Vladimir Propp. The exegesis also identifies and discusses the types of transformation the human and animal characters undergo, and conducts a comparative analysis of the theories of English academic and fairy tale historian, Jack Zipes. Finally, the exegesis analyses and discusses the multi-dimensional nature of the bonds formed by the human and animal characters and demonstrates how writers of modern literary fairy tales seek to awaken the reader to the possibilities of relationships with animals beyond usual human understanding or experience.

This thesis explores how science fiction and fantasy retellings of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" bring visionary insights to the fairy tale. Stories such as Tanith Lee's science fiction novella "Beauty" and Mercedes Lackey's fantasy novel The Fire Rose constitute living and developing incarnations of "Beauty and the Beast." To better explore the visionary leaps made by these stories, they are placed in contrast with one of the original recordings of the story by Madame Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and the 1991 Disney film version, Beauty and the Beast.

This thesis examines the adaptation of fairy tales in ten recent French and German films. It looks specifically at narrative structures, representations of magic, portrayals of childhood, and manifestations of good and evil. This thesis asks how and why contemporary French and German filmmakers choose, consciously or not, to update some of the central motifs of fairy tales for a modern audience and what attitudes toward the reconciliation of tradition and modernity those choices express.

Fairy tales are commonly considered to be both timeless and classless. Since the 17th century, when most of the tales we have access to today were first collected and published, the idea that fairy tales are part of an oral tradition, and therefore more or less uninfluenced by academic and literary trends, have been dominant amongst researchers, critics and readers. This idea needs to be revaluated. Even if the tales might have their roots in an oral tradition the history of the fairy tale ”is not primarily a history of oral transmission, but rather a history of print”, as Elizabeth Wanning Harries puts it (Wanning Harries, 2001:4). Well-educated bourgeoisie men, who travelled the countryside to collect and transcribe the fairy tales from storytellers, gave the tales their form. Before they reached the public the fairy tales were rewritten to better suit the reading bourgeoisie consumers. The tales we know today have thus been adapted to a bourgeoisie discourse. In this thesis I analyse how this discourse can be seen in fairy tales collected in Östergötland, Sweden. More precisely I discuss how a dualistic representation of women, where the bourgeoisie ideal woman takes the form of the submissive fairy tale princess and her counterpart is the active, but ugly and dumb peasant woman, leads to the reader’s internalization of certain norms concerning sexuality, the relations between men and women and hegemonic cultural structures in the Western society. My aim is to cast a new light over tales that have had an important impact on European literature and education during the last century.