The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres internationally,
thanks in large part to its many manifestations on screen. Yet the history and relevance of …

Folktales function as a form of cultural heritage in contemporary society and offer models for
interpreting experience in everyday practices, but the beliefs and values conveyed by many …

This article discusses the implied 'vulgarity'and playfulness of children's literature within the
broader concept of the carnivalesque as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His …

Antwerp, the fictional home of Nello & Patrasche from A Dog of Flanders (1872) written by
Marie Louise de la Ramée, attracts thousands of tourists every year to see the city and get …

Cognitive approaches have been leading the way to new understandings of nonliterary art
(ie, multi-media, performance, perceptual genres). Indeed, theater studies, film studies, and …

In accord with the promise made by Henry Jenkins that “old and new media will interact in
ever more complex ways”(Convergence Culture 6), this research observes metamodern …

The aim of this study is to bring together abjection theory, as elaborated in Julia Kristeva's
Powers of Horror and other relevant works (particularly, the establishment of “symbolic” and …

A common ground that children and the aged share is that the structures of a social ecology
can position them as society's others, lacking coherent subjectivities and agency, so that …

Employing the main motifs of the Grimms' version, Yim Pil-Sung's Hansel and Gretel
explores the trauma that three orphans suffered in their experiences at an orphanage. The …

Despite escalating political tensions in Taiwan, mainland China, and Hong Kong, there has
been an unprecedented degree of cultural collaboration among these three Chinese …