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The search for an "original" version of traditional fairy tales is a subject that is dear to critics within the genre. Both the persistent attempts to delimit the creative role of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers, as well as searches for records of previous oral versions, denounce the interest in a Cartesian pursuit of the truth of fairy tales, which paradoxically goes against the type of knowledge of which art and literature themselves consist: a sui generis superior form of knowledge governed by the bonds of the truth of the possible. Taking the work of Almodóvar e Taeger (2009) as an example, we dedicate ourselves to the reflections that it, as a metafictional textuality, raises about itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has the intention to pay attention to some latent aspects in fairy tales, in the versions produced by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, and seen from the psychoanalytic perspective, in the reading of Bruno Bettelheim (1980). We will make an analysis of some of the tales by the above authors, under the viewpoint of Bettelheim, who, following the Freudian and Lacanian theories, invests in the Oedipus Complex, to relate the three phases of this complex, manifested in the characters of Snow White, Cinderella, Prince Frog, The Girl of the Geese, John and Mary, The Fairies, Rapunzel, Little Thumb, and Little Red Riding Hood. This is a bibliographical analysis, whose objective is to allow a reflection on the possible identification of children with the characters in these tales, in order to facilitate their immersion in the world, based on the information inscribed, according to Lacan, in the Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real, structures that, besides not disregarding Freudian concepts, are able to expand them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the translation process in poetry considering the works of Angela Carter as a translator. Carter was a noted British author, best known for her novels and rewrites of fairy tales, and for her works related to science fiction. For this article, by using the book Unicorn: the poetry of Angela Carter (2015) and based on Lefevere's theories of translation (1975, 1992, 2003) we propose a translation exercise from English into Brazilian Portuguese of an excerpt from her poem - namesake - titled "Unicorn". In this sense, we seek to understand how literary creation and literary translation are presented in Carter's work as a wordsmith - an artist of the word. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the structuralism period but also the boom of poststructuralist deconstruction, this study aims to explore the functionality of the models of narrative organization proposed by Formalist and Structuralist theories, by taking contemporary themes as a basis. The favored corpora for demonstration: the film Snow White and the Huntsman (2017) - to which we apply the 31 functions developed by Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp - and the computer animation Shrek (2012) - considering the model of predictability developed by Lithuanian linguist A.J. Greimas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the story Pele de asno, by Charles Perrault, seeking to understand childhood and sexuality configured in the historical context of the compilation of this production. The study showed that, in that context, even though there was an increasing questioning and disapproval of sexual activities between children and adults or practices such as incest, these were not uncommon and continued to be portrayed in the children's stories. It should be noted that the perception built up until then about childhood was not at the heart of the concern with care based on moral and educational precepts such as those currently valued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes two contemporary tales in order to problematize the prescription of femininities produced by the traditional fairy tales and by the reactionary discourse. We argue, based on the concept of gender performativity thought by Judith Butler, that on one hand the anti-gender offensive prescribes that women need to be princesses and it spreads a reactionary discourse that produces authorized ways of performing femininities according to the traditional fairy tales. On the other hand, some contemporary fairy tales resist and re-exist to the reactionary discourse and gender norms and use the multicultural discourse to produce princesses that perform in different ways. Based on the cultural studies, we understand that the curriculum is cultural and it is a discourse that produces, authorizes and creates knowledge. It unfolds itself into different pedagogies. In this sense, the narratives of the fairy tales that commonly take place in the curriculum addressed to children compose a certain script regarding the learning of gender norms. They teach norms to girls and boys, prescribing normal femininities and masculinities. However, they can also problematize those norms. In the analyzed stories it was possible to observe other gender performative scripts (BUTLER, 2019). The research methodology was constructed with elements of the discourse analysis based on Foucault and the results showed that the narratives produce other ways of presenting the princess' behavior and plurality on the characterization of the characters' bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents part of an academic research that aimed to investigate interdisciplinary perspectives of the pedagogical practice of Basic Education of Nazaré da Mata County's teachers, at Zona da Mata Norte in the state of Pernambuco, through music in fairy tales. The text specifically addresses the enrichment of students' vocabulary. The qualitative investigation, with an emphasis on action research, had as its locus three public schools, where three teachers and ninety students from the fourth year of Elementary School were subjected. Data collection was carried out through participant observation and pedagogical workshops. The results allowed us to conclude that interdisciplinary experiences through music in fairy tales contribute to the development of orality, reading, and autonomy besides favoring the enrichment of students' vocabulary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I argue that the female characters and the more-than-human nature in the fairy tales by Marina Colasanti suffer corelated violence, performed by male characters representative of the capital-patriarchal culture. However, the oppressed characters resist this hostility through metamorphosis, which can be read, metaphorically, as transcorporeal movements capable of resignifying the concept of woman and nature, both considered as passive and apt to exploration by the patriarchy. Regarding a possible essentialism in this interconnection, I argue that the author uses it in a strategic way. Thus, this paper is developed on the heels of feminist ecocriticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fantastic is a fictional narrative genre in which occur unverifiable or irreproducible events in the referential reality. However, unlike other genres such as the marvellous or the fairy tales, we are faced with a story in which these events are perceived as supernatural in the same space-time of the text, which leads us to question the reasons why European authors from the 19th century have invested so much of their time and efforts in their production. We adopted a social-cognitive approach according to which every narrative, textual or discursive genre is a social-cognitive response to a social-cultural contingency that, at this historical moment, is the end of a society based on vertical time (magical mentality), and its conflict with that is guided by horizontal time (scientific mentality). In general, fantastic fiction writers play with readers' confirmation bias, presenting recurring situations in everyday normality, such as altered states of consciousness and random coincidences, which are seen as manifestations of the supernatural in referential reality. Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was a French author who, in his fantastic tales, made extensive use of altered states of consciousness, frequently triggered by the consumption of hallucinogenic substances, to present to his readers the idea that in the heart of the Belle Époque they could open the 'doors of perception' and see the supernatural truth under the veil of everyday normality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wander Piroli's storybook É proibido comer a grama (2006) is composed of 18 narratives, in which the theme of violence stands out, especially that which emerges in the urban space, having Belo Horizonte as its main scenario, its nerve center and bohemian surroundings, such as the Lagoinha neighborhood. Piroli's characters are the forgotten, excluded and social invisibles, ordinary people with their day-to-day problems: the poor, the black, the prostitute, the worker, the thief, the drunk, among other marginalized types. The purpose of this article is to analyze, from the perspective of violence, the tragicity in the story "Na velha Guaicurus", considering the concepts of cultural violence, structural violence and direct violence as described by Thomas Conti (2016). The tale tells the love story between the prostitute Etelvina, and the injections applicator João de Deus, who at the beginning alludes to the classic fairy tale (even though they are unlikely characters for that), ends tragically with the murder of the protagonist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article will, through a bibliographical research, make an evaluation of the use of children's stories in the education of children from an Adventist perspective. Adventists have historically maintained an extremely cautious approach to children's tales, especially fairy tales. The main reason for this resistance is the interpretation of some texts written by Ellen White, a pioneer of the Adventist movement and an important voice in Adventist pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article had as its starting point a chapter of the Master Dissertation entitled "The reproduction of gender inequalities in marvelous fairy tales as circumscribed marks in Pré-school Education" defended in February 2017 on the problematization of the social roles attributed to the gender of the birth of the subjects and the various constructions attributed as inherent, being present in several areas, among them the school. The theoretical field that underlies the research undertaken in the master's degree and that is present in this article is the Critical Theory having as main theoretical Pierre Bourdieu and its categories of analysis. This article presents as a theoretical reflexive strategy on how much gender inequalities are still present and that the idea of overcoming often reinforces the idea that opportunities are for everyone and that many are not present because they do not want or strive hard enough. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexuality is constructed through patterns of behavior and customs of mankind throughout the history, and various factors and results in you release or suppression. Fairy tales originated from orality and recounted over the centuries put the women constantly inferior to the men, naturalizing female vulnerability. In this view, this article of bibliographic nature sought to meet, describe and discuss what the scientific studies say about the use of short stories in high school, trying to analyze its use as a pedagogical strategy to mitigate the stereotypes of female inferiority and other prejudices. So, confirmed the assertiveness of this approach, since it can transmit values, strengthen or criticize paradigms and gender issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes some aspects of the original version of 'Beauty and the Beast', written by Madame de Villeneuve in 1740, in order to highlight the work's critical feature in relation to certain practices common to the time when it was written, such as arranged marriages, women's reclusive rearing and some bourgeois values. The aim is to look closely at the romance's emancipatory aspect in what concerns female characters. For that, the paper uses the theoretical prepositions of Bruno Bettelheim, Diana & Mário Corso, Philippe Ariès and Alan Macfarlane, along with reflexions on the female experience and the bourgeois morality in the eighteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After feminist and psychoanalytic criticism showed interest in fairy tales in the 1970s, those narratives were upscaled from mere folkloric curiosities to authentic literary modes, suitable to be included in official school syllabuses. This article suggests ways of making use of fairy tales to introduce literature to EFL learners in different age groups and teaching contexts, taking into account archetypical, linguistic, discursive, thematic, critical and/or stylistic aspects of these texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a research which aimed to investigate written language and appropriation of literate culture in Child Education, based on fairy-tales. In order to do so, an intervention was carried out with 3 and 4 year-olds enrolled at a public Child Education Center in Tubarão town (SC). The instruments used for data collection comprised written (field journal) and photographic records. Regarding data analysis, theoretical frameworks put forward by Baptista (2010, 2012), Machado (2002), Mello (2010), and Soares (2003), among others, were adopted. that the fidings point to the fairy tales enable literacy practices that expand the literary repertoire of the small child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work's objective is to seek understanding towards the imaginary of the Third Woman described by Gilles Lipovetsky in Maleficent movie (Robert Stromberg, 2014) from the homonymous character. The present article addresses the representation of the female gender in contemporary cinema's Fairy Tales. The cinema, as a technology of the imaginary, provides images to think the present and our time's actual imaginary - and, in this case, in the scope of female representation in western societies. We will execute an analysis of the character Maleficent through a methodological matrix based on the Third Woman's image and in the social contextualization of women's role in western society, paying attention to the categories of love and beauty. We will think Maleficent as a contemporary spirit of the time, which constitutes the crystallization of a pulsating imaginary that shapes female representation in our society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

So what does a woman want? This article is not intended to answer that question, but to reflect on the reasons that make the question so popular both inside and outside the psychoanalytic field. The notion of femininity expressed by Freud throughout his work is discussed here, both in its conservative aspect of patriarchal morals and its uniqueness, pinpointing it as the origin of the human psyche in its condition as helpless. The image of the little girl lost in the forest in fairy tales is evoked to support and broaden this reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to investigate the use of Fairy Tales as intervention in a group of children, patients from a mental health clinic, who were referred because of learning or social relationship difficulties. We started from the idea that Fairy Tales have symbolic material to help children elaborate their conflicts, help their capability to fantasize and, therefore, contribute to the symbolization and creativity processes. This study aimed to answer if the use of Fairy Tales could be a tool to help the symbolization and creativity processes, through evaluations before and after the group activity happened. Four children from age six to nine and their parents took part in this study. The data was composed of psychological charts, an initial interview with the parents, an interview with the child, the Fairy Tales test, the HTP (House, Tree and Person) test and 10 therapeutic group meetings. We observed that the fairy tales were important in the group to access each participant's issues, making the interventions possible and allowing them to name their affections. We observed through the tests that at the end of the group meetings the children achieved gains in the symbolization processes, besides improvements in their first complaints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Baudrillardian context of fading and suppression of the distance between real and imaginary, and metonymic correspondence between objects and reality, we are proposing to analyse the tale Little Red Riding Hood in its rereadings in contemporary cinema. First, we reflect on the role of tales in society and rescue its origins. Then, we present the theoretical foundations that support our arguments in the analysis of Hoodwinked! and Hoodwinked Too! Finally, we reflexively recover the oral and literary origins of the tale, with the goal of understanding and explaining its evolution in cinema, particularly from the notions of simulacrum and involution of evil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I discuss the impact of the use of revisionist tactics in retellings of fairy tales by the contemporary writers Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, and Angela Carter, in order to show how the new readings make it possible to question, and in some cases, even to contest or change conventional meanings crystallized by the tradition of these children's stories. To do so I rely on Adrienne Rich's concept of "revision" and on the notions of revisionist tactics pointed out by Rachel B. DuPlessis and Alicia S. Ostriker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to outline the academic activities of the Research Group Image and Imaginary (GIM), initiated in 2012 and developed in the PPGCOM - PUCRS, under coordination of Professor Juliana Tonin. The research, called The tale (of an imaginary that) never stops, aims to analyze the metamorphosis occurring in fairy tales and legends, through its manifestations in film productions aimed at children. The study focuses on the possible changes in the plots as key aspects of style and contemporary imaginary. The aim is to identify recurring themes that represent the change in the tales and interpret these new proposals in the light of the notion of style and imaginary of this time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is built up from an interdisciplinary approach between literature and psychoanalysis, whose link consists of a contemporary fairy tale A Moça Tecelã, Marina Colasanti. In this study, we create possible meanings related to human development, under the watchful psychoanalytic walking, so the paths of analysis of Bruno Bettelheim (2007). Thus, we assume that fairy tales help in the understanding of unconscious conflicts, inherent in every human being. From the psychoanalytic meanings achieved, we seek to broaden the discussion by proposing symbolizations possible regarding the type of reader that the story suggests. In A Moça Tecelã, we see the representation of adulthood, as well as the symbolization of a mature reader, and therefore, productive. Thus, from the meanings of the tale, it was possible to observe the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis, which together favor the formation of subject-readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]