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Tales retold, old and modern fairy tales, myths. Fairy tales as a genre that follows its audience from childhood to adulthood. Fairy-tale collections that are popular items in bookstores. Forgotten nineteenth-century tales with strong female characters. The motifs and supernatural elements of the fairy-tale genre. Beauty and the Beast and what scholars can learn from different versions of the same tale. Modern fairy tales and the social and political influence on girls and boys of the stereotypes found in fairy tales. Little Red Riding Hood and its controversial morals. Fairy tales as reenacted in a second-grade class in Manhattan. A modern poem based on the Cinderella story.
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