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Article: Tam Lin, Fair Janet, and the Sexual Revolution: Traditional Ballads, Fairy Tales, and Twentieth-Century Children's Literature
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- Marvels & Tales
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- January 1, 2004
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Through their depiction of incidents in which "goodness" is rewarded and "evil" deeds punished, folk and fairy tales function as pedagogical tools that illustrate cultural values, enforce the status quo, and define socially acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Yet this function certainly is not
limited to the prose tales alone: traditional ballads, the old story-songs still performed in Anglo-American cultures, also tell the stories of men and women who must cope with established cultural conventions. The 305 traditional Scottish and English ballads collected by American folklorist Francis James Child at the end of the nineteenth century are filled with such stories, and their commentary ...
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Article: Beauty's more than skin-deep in fairy tales
Chicago Sun-Times;
January 20, 2004 ;
700+ words
...NEW YORK -- Fairy tales offer children a fantasy world of magic, romance and adventure ... Grauerholz and Baker-Sperry examined 168 Brothers Grimm fairy tales to study how fairy tales deal with beauty in "The Pervasiveness and Persistence ...
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