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When Aladdin Was Just a Dental Schoolboy
Fairy tales are still the go-to subject for young adults.But in a new book, children’s author and professor of English at Indiana University, Richard Wiese, explores why.In Fairy Tales, Wieses argues that the term ‘fairy’ was coined in the...
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Feminist fairy tales – Fairy tales about Africa
Fairy tales have always been about women.In ancient Greece, a young woman named Perseus wrote a tale about her first love and her first kiss.She also told a tale of how her sister was taken away to a fairy...
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