The Elves and the Shoemaker

Towards Excellence, 2022

The beginning of the Common Era brought with it the gift of writing for the world of literature, which witnessed a giant leap in the collection of its oral narratives or tales being penned down to prevent them from disappearing in antiquity. The tales, though existent since centuries in some form or the other, have surprisingly failed to lose their importance even after having continuously existed throughout the ages. They are relevant even in today’s age of technological advancements because they have their roots in peoples’ quests for social, spiritual, moral and cultural progress, akin to aims of technology. They possess the inherent ability to explain the truths of life in a plain and lucid manner, and even provide the inspiration for hope even in the most desperate times. The creativity in the literary rendition of the different humanoids of varied psyche portrayed in the fairy tales is what enables them to maintain their perennial narrative flow without getting lost or ruptured through the sea of time, and to remain relevant even in the modern socio-cultural s...

a fairy tale is more than just a fairy tale abstract In focusing on the interaction between various mediations of the fairy tale, Zipes refutes dichotomies of print vs oral controversies that scholars -especially Wilem de Blécourt in Tales of Magic, Tales of Print (2011) and Ruth Bottigheimer in Fairy Tales: A New History (2009) -have been promoting to paint a misinformed history of fairy tales as having literary (rather than oral) origins. Zipes changes the terms of the debate by arguing that researchers should turn their attention to recent sophisticated and innovative theories of storytelling, cultural evolution, human communication and memetics to see how fairy tales enable us to understand why we are disposed towards them and how they 'breathe' life into our daily undertakings.

2019

One of the fundamental stories in fairy tale studies is Cinderella : folkloric designation ATU 510A, the Persecuted Heroine. As Fairy tale and Folklore studies continue to evolve, authors beyond Basile, Perrault and Grimm are added into the Cinderella canon to lend a more nuanced approach to the study of this fairy tale. Yet Cinderella is still often interpreted as a tale of feminine submissiveness, in which the heroine is little more than a passive ornament or else a likeable social-climber. These interpretations stem largely from the focus of Cinderella stories written by men. Though studies of Cinderella are expanding, Cendrillon , Aschenputtel , and Walt Disney\u27s Cinderella remain the foundational tales that are thought of when Cinderella is mentioned. This research addresses the problem that female writers of Cinderella remain marginalized within analyses of the tale. This research considers five versions of Cinderella from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, f...

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The present paper attempts to investigate the intersemiotic interpretations of classic fairy tales. With the growing popularity of classic fairy tales, their intersemiotic interpretations have become ubiquitous in a number of fields, such as cinema, animations, illustrations, to name a few. The paper aims at identifying the changes the motifs of the fairy tale texts undergo in the process of intersemiotic interpretations. In order to achieve this aim, we have deployed descriptive and comparative methods of analysis. Having conducted the research we present the following findings: a) regardless of the medium into which fairy tales are transformed, motifs of the fairy tale are subjected to omissions, additions, explicitations, and condensations during the intersemiotic interpretation; b) the culture, into which the fairy tale text is transformed, and the target audience of the product are major factors underlying the changes of fairy tale motifs during the intersemiotic interpretation. In intersemotic translation as in any kind of translation, there is hardly, if ever, a perfect equivalence of signs, especially when the text translated into a different medium is as complex as classic fairy tales which represent universal values and illustrate universal truths.

2019

Cinderella is one of the most remarkable short stories in all ages. Cinderella was the best-known fairy tale, and probably the best liked in every region in the world. This study tries to analyze the three versions of Cinderella stories, the stories are written by Katharine Pyle, Charles Perrault, and the animation movie is produced by Walt Disney. This study focuses on the symbols which appear in Cinderella stories. The researcher uses Representation theory by Stuart Hall to find out about the meanings of the symbols. The method of this research is qualitative research. The data sources of this research are the three versions of Cinderella stories. The result of this study is the researcher finds out the symbols which dominantly appear in the stories. The symbols are: the glass slipper reprsents about true identity, gentleness, and purity; the gown represents about double identity and unsual beauty; the pumpkin represents about transition, wealth, and relationship; the animals repr...