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The Primary objectives of this creative project were the exploration of well-known fairy tales (such as Snow White), and the process of creating interactive jewelry based on my own personal interpretation of these stories. I designed and constructed seven jewelry pieces using traditional metal working techniques along with innovative contemporary surface treatments such as etching, sandblasting and colored pencil decoration. Each piece contained a "surprise" interactive element - some pieces contain moving parts, while others contain small pieces of fabric tape on which sentences are written. These tapes are mechanized to wind up into the ring or pendant.This body of work required a variety of metalsmithing techniques including complex constructions, copper forming, casting, lathe turning, and stone setting. / Department of Art

Thesis(M.A.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr college, 1934. / Bibliography: p. 93-100.

Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

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This interdisciplinary, archetypal study considers the numerous adaptation processes and techniques involved in the transposition of the fairy tale from one medium to another, exploring post-2000 adult adaptations and appropriations of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ across a variety of high-art and popular media, such as advertising, video gaming, and fine art, with a focus on literature and film. As well as examining explicit re-tellings of the tale such as Catherine Hardwicke’s 'Red Riding Hood' (2011), more implicit and intertextual references are discussed, with the intention of acknowledging the pervasive, and at times, unconscious nature of the adaptation process. This can be seen in films like 'The Village' (2004), 'Hard Candy' (2005) and the television series 'Merlin' (2008 - ). As a means of analysing the material I adopt a feminist-Jungian theoretical model which enables the consideration of the mythological and ideological concepts inherent to the works. Specifically, this establishes how Red Riding Hood can be understood as a shifting archetype when compared to her fairy tale sisters such as Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty et al, thus allowing for so many diverse portrayals of her character: as the child, the innocent victim, the femme-fatale, and the monstrous feminine. The rationale behind the thesis is threefold; firstly, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is typically understood as a cautionary tale, rather than a female quest narrative, therefore, I will explore how the tale is often used as a vehicle for post/feminist issues and/or gender anxieties, providing a commentary on the construction and perception of girls’ and women’s roles in contemporary Western society. Secondly, the work creates a space for the acknowledgement and discussion of unconscious appropriation which has so far remained on the margins of adaptation studies. And thirdly, to establish fairy tales, using ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ as an example, as the ultimate intertext(s), demonstrating how characters, themes and plots are continually (re)appropriated.

This thesis analyzes the relationship between German fairy tales and Ecocriticism by examining the similarities and differences in depictions of nature in the tales published by the Brothers Grimm in 1857 and tales written by political activists during Germany's Weimar Republic. "Frau Holle" and "Die drei Schlangenblätter" by the Brothers Grimm present nature as a means to support their bourgeois utopian ideals. On the other hand, the Weimar writers Carl Ewald and Edwin Hörnle's tales "Ein Märchen von Gott und den Königen" and "Der kleine König und die Sonne" (respectively) employ the traditional form of the fairy tale to espouse free-thinking and criticize the weaknesses of the Grimms' utopian ideal. My ecocritical analysis is based on a synthesis of environmental sciences and sociocultural influences.

Orientador: Karin Volobuef / Banca: Maria Celeste Tommasello Ramos / Banca: Paulo Sérgio Villela Marques / Resumo: O presente trabalho visava, inicialmente, a investigar a realimentação da história pelo mito, e deste pela realidade, por meio da análise comparativa entre textos diversos, a partir do conto de fadas A montanha de vidro, traduzido do alemão para o inglês por Andrew Lang. Todavia, a partir do levantamento e seleção de textos que tomou em consideração um conjunto de elementos do conto-base relacionados com a expressão "montanha e mulher", acreditamos estar diante de dados de natureza simbólica anteriores ao mundo pagão politeísta androcêntrico. Constatamos, das derivações do uso desses símbolos, que a figura feminina gradualmente perdia poder até desaparecer por completo, restando da ligação desses símbolos com o universo feminino apenas resquícios. Portanto, embora não se tenham deixado de lado ferramentas pertinentes ao campo da psicanálise e da história, privilegiaram-se conceitos antropológicos para a análise comparativa desses símbolos, em mitologias e narrativas de culturas diversas, na medida em que foram apropriados do feminino, primeiramente pelo universo masculino, tanto divino quanto humano, e do mundo pagão pelo cristianismo. / Abstract: The present work aimed, initially, to investigate the feedback of the history by the myth, and of the myth by the reality, through the comparative analysis between diverse texts, from the fairy tale The Glass Mountain, translated from German into English by Andrew Lang. However, from the collection and selection of texts that took into account a set of tale-base elements related to the expression "mountain and woman", we believe that we are faced with symbolic data that predate the pagan androcentric polytheistic world. We have seen from the derivations of the use of these symbols that the female figure gradually lost power until it disappears completely, leaving only the remnants of the connection of these symbols with the female universe. Therefore, although relevant tools in the field of psychoanalysis and history have not been overlooked, anthropological concepts for the comparative analysis of these symbols were favored in mythologies and narratives of diverse cultures, inasmuch as they were first expropriated of the feminine, by the male universe, both divine and human, and only then were they expropriated from the pagan world by Christianity. / Mestre

Chan, Hin Sin Cindy. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese.