… fairy tales, and why American and British children aren’t exposed to more non-western fairy
tales. … to video games, from Grimm’s fairy tales to the multimedia Harry Potter phenomenon, …

… of the use of fairy tales in classrooms, but he also argues that just reading a fairy tale isn't …
For example, there are relatively few old tales that present women in positive dynamic roles. …

… As we can see, the preoccupation of the fable tends to be a short, metaphoric exploration of
power relations that provides listeners with a moral or ethical example, and though the fable …

… fairy tale is only one type of appropriation of a particular oral storytelling tradition: the wonder
folk tale… and the Beast is a good example of how the fairy tale as representation (and also …

… will introduce examples from the area of film and the modern media in addition to examples
… in these stories the lineaments of older, Italian storytellers; as we enter German forests with …

… of storytelling, cultural evolution, human communication and memetics to see how fairy tales
… were not given titles; they were simply told to mark an occasion, to set an example, to warn …

… fairy tale was what drew one of the great storytellers to the … storyteller, a fairy tale is de®ned
by what it may become. For the folklorist, it is de®ned by what it has been. A classic example …

… In the tale of the hare and the tortoise, for example, the tortoise wins the race because he
is slow and steady, rather than speedy but careless. The moral of the story is that "arrogance …

… Examples of the stories we think of nowadays when we refer to fairy tales are `Cinderella',
`… Like all storytellers he adapted the tales to his audience, and from them come a long line of …

STORYTELLING Page 1 607 Fairy tales (or “wonder tales”) continue to play an essential
part in the repertoire of many contemporary storytellers, much as they have in historic oral …