This paper studies how several conceptual metaphors (e.g. MORALITY IS LIGHT, MORALITY IS CLEANLINESS, MORAL FREEDOM IS PHYSICAL FREEDOM, DOING IMMORAL DEEDS IS ACCUMULATING DEBT) are able to account for the basic meaning and interpretation of punishments and moral issues in more than twenty popular tales, thus allowing us to explain some of the uncanny elements of tales. The stories, representative of various cultures, have been extracted from the Project Gutenberg online library and belong to the British compiler Andrew Lang (1844-1912). We also suggest that these metaphors, because of their strong experiential grounding, may have contributed to an easier transmission of many fairy tales, and also to make tales alike in different socio-cul...
The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psyc...
Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have...
This study examined the child's understanding of the moral content found in fairy tales based on an ...
This paper studies how several conceptual metaphors (e.g. MORALITY IS LIGHT, MORALITY IS CLEANLINESS...
: This paper studies how several metaphors (namely: ACQUIESCENCE IS SWALLOWING, INTELLIGENCE IS LIGH...
This paper resumes the series related to metaphors in fairy tales started by HERRERO in 2005 (cf. HE...
This essay explores fairy tales as culturally bound stories that serve as the means of preserving an...
This work is concerned with fairy tales as significant part of culture which contains huge number of...
L’objectiu d’aquest treball és veure què ens diuen cinc contes populars dels germans Grimm (Caperuci...
This article first discusses the history and ideology of fairy tales. As Walter Benjamin said in his...
By examining fairy tales comparatively, it is possible to find out common intercultural motives and ...
Reading folktales to surmise the morality can be so puzzling because morality is not simply about wh...
Death and grief in fairytales. An exploratory literature study The aim of this study was to examine ...
The literary reflection of magical realism is usually examined by appeal to certain aspects of the t...
This Diploma Thesis "Moral Aspects of Fairy Tales" asks questions - Is it possible to find God's mes...
The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psyc...
Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have...
This study examined the child's understanding of the moral content found in fairy tales based on an ...
This paper studies how several conceptual metaphors (e.g. MORALITY IS LIGHT, MORALITY IS CLEANLINESS...
: This paper studies how several metaphors (namely: ACQUIESCENCE IS SWALLOWING, INTELLIGENCE IS LIGH...
This paper resumes the series related to metaphors in fairy tales started by HERRERO in 2005 (cf. HE...
This essay explores fairy tales as culturally bound stories that serve as the means of preserving an...
This work is concerned with fairy tales as significant part of culture which contains huge number of...
L’objectiu d’aquest treball és veure què ens diuen cinc contes populars dels germans Grimm (Caperuci...
This article first discusses the history and ideology of fairy tales. As Walter Benjamin said in his...
By examining fairy tales comparatively, it is possible to find out common intercultural motives and ...
Reading folktales to surmise the morality can be so puzzling because morality is not simply about wh...
Death and grief in fairytales. An exploratory literature study The aim of this study was to examine ...
The literary reflection of magical realism is usually examined by appeal to certain aspects of the t...
This Diploma Thesis "Moral Aspects of Fairy Tales" asks questions - Is it possible to find God's mes...
The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psyc...
Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have...
This study examined the child's understanding of the moral content found in fairy tales based on an ...