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Children in Nama and Damara Tales of Magic
This essay focuses on the narrative traditions of the Nama-speaking peoples in Namibia, South Africa. It describes tales in which children are the main protagonists and discusses the character of African tales of magic. It shows that in these tales the \"laws\" of tale-telling that are known from studies of Western tales by Axel Olrik and Max Liithi, for example, are stronger than a desire to depict reality. The African tales about children are compared with Western ones about children, particularly in relation to the ATU 327 complex. The paper suggests that both these European tales and African tales of magic should be treated as a special subgenre.
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Shrek
\"Poor Shrek just wants to live peacefully in his swamp, but a kingdom of fairy-tale creatures has arrived uninvited. Lord Farquaad promises to give Shrek his swamp back on one condition: Shrek must rescue Princess Fiona from the castle where she is guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. An ornery ogre, a talking Donkey, and a curse only true love's first kiss can break--now retold in a Little Golden Book!\"-- Amazon.com.
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Marvelous Autocrats
In the opening scene of Sony Labou Tansi’sLa vie et demie(Life and a Half, 1979) the dictator of the fictional country of Katamalanasia slits the throat of, disembowels, and cannibalizes the opposition leader, Martial. But Martial refuses to die. His voice emanates from his remains until the Providential Guide, as the dictator is called, tears them apart. Martial then haunts the Providential Guide; when he takes Martial’s daughter as a mistress, Martial prevents him from consummating the affair. Yet, as the novel progresses, Martial himself becomes overbearing and violent, attempting to dictate the actions of his daughter and
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The three bully goats
Billy goat brothers Gruff, Ruff, and Tuff are bullies who rule their meadow, but when they cross Little Ogre's bridge and are mean to the baby animals on the other side, they are in for a surprise.
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Marvelous Autocrats
In the opening scene of Sony Labou Tansi’sLa vie et demie(Life and a Half, 1979) the dictator of the fictional country of Katamalanasia slits the throat of, disembowels, and cannibalizes the opposition leader, Martial. But Martial refuses to die. His voice emanates from his remains until the Providential Guide, as the dictator is called, tears them apart. Martial then haunts the Providential Guide; when he takes Martial’s daughter as a mistress, Martial prevents him from consummating the affair. Yet, as the novel progresses, Martial himself becomes overbearing and violent, attempting to dictate the actions of his daughter and
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Ogres awake!
\"The knight and her horse, Edward, have made a startling discovery: there are three huge ogres asleep at her doorstep! When they wake up, the kingdom is in big trouble! The knight, Edward, and some garden gnomes fight back, not with swords and shields, but with potato peelers and spoons. It turns out that ogres are pretty friendly when they have full stomachs!\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Ogre and the Fairy Godmother
A bell jar is a cylindrical glass vessel with a rounded top and an open base used to protect and display fragile objects or to establish a controlled atmosphere or environment in a scientific experiment. Both these meanings apply approximately to Esther Greenwood, the first-person narrator-protagonist in Plath’s novel. She sees herself and is seen by others as a fragile young woman in need of protection, and she lives in a controlled atmosphere or environment in a number of senses: under her mother’s sway, under the peer pressures of the women’s college she attends, under the cultural expectations for women
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Ogre enchanted
\"Healer Evora is turned into a hideous ogre by the fairy Lucinda after rejecting a proposal, and has only a few months to find a love to reverse the curse\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Veza Canetti—Between Fact and Fiction
According to the motto: 'Those who wager their life get room and board\" - the maid Emilie Jacks leaps into the waters in order to be finally and truly paid off. Because suicide candidates can expect a place in \"the homeless shelter at police headquarters; she (Emilie) arrived there as the most recent attempted suicide, whose sufferings were still quite fresh, and she was treated protectively by all the previous suicides. ...\" Venetiana's sacrilege against EUas is that she raises her own voice instead of just lending it, like Leda, to his song. [...]in Comedy of Vanity, the giving of the song immediately leads to Heinrich's depriving Leda of their common intimate space of the informal \"you,\" of the \"Da,\" yet without forcing her back to the separated physical spaces of the formal \"You,\" of the \"Fort. [...]the 'you' is presumptuous in such exceptional cases,\" says Heinrich, \"which doesn't mean that you have to say 'You' to me.
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