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Journal articles on the topic "Psychological aspects of Horror tales"
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IMMERWAHR, DANIEL. "THE THIRTY YEARS’ CRISIS: ANXIETY AND FEAR IN THE MID-CENTURY UNITED STATES." Modern Intellectual History 13, no. 1 (July 31, 2015): 287–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244315000256.
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In 1952, Bill Gaines, the entrepreneurial comic book publisher, embarked on a new venture. He had already made a name for himself by introducing the “horror” comics (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Terror) that had rapidly acquired an eager readership. Those titles summoned up repressed aspects of postwar culture, reveling in sadism, sexual infidelity, and grisly torture. But the id knows many pathways, and in 1952 Gaines launched a humor magazine called Mad. The title was a celebration of unreason. As its icon, Mad boasted Alfred E. Neuman, a grinning half-wit who lived by the mantra, “What, me worry?”
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Buday, Maroš. "From One Master of Horror to Another: Tracing Poe’s Influence in Stephen King’s The Shining." Prague Journal of English Studies 4, no. 1 (July 1, 2015): 47–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2015-0003.
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Abstract This article deals with the work of two of the most prominent horror fiction writers in American history, namely Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. The focus of this study is put on the comparative approach while tracing the influence of Poe’s several chosen narratives in King’s novel called The Shining (1977). The chosen approach has uncovered that King’s novel embodies numerous characteristics, tendencies, and other signs of inspiration by Poe’s narratives. The Shining encompasses Poe’s tales such as “The Masque of the Red Death”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and “The Black Cat” which are shown to be pivotal aspects of King’s novel. The analysis has shown that the aforementioned King’s novel exhibits Shakespearean elements intertwined with Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”, the Overlook Hotel to be a composite consisting of various Poesque references, and that The Shining’s protagonist is a reflection of autobiographical references to specific aspects of the lives of Poe and King themselves.
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Kulakevych, Lyudmyla. "Artistic means of a silent film in I. Dniprovsky's psychological action «Zarady nei» («For Her Sake»)." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ 13, no. 22 (2020): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2020-13-22-31-38.
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In the present paper a short story written by I. Dniprovsky's is analyzed. In accordance with the action canon, the main character has to find his beloved in the shortest possible time so that they could catch the train and escape from the enemy. In the twists and turns of the story the archetypal plot of lovers’ escape / rescue from the monster can be traced. It descends from folk tales and legends where a young man sacrifices himself for the sake of his beloved. By analogy with receptions in tense feature films (thrillers, horror films, catastrophes), the single-line plot «For Her sake» consists of annoyingly insidious concourse of circumstances. They create the feeling as if the whole world, even the closest people and character’s personal belongings, want to thwart his rescue. It is emphasized that, similar to the techniques in the action movies, a linear storyline in the short story consists of the treacherously irritating coincidences. However, while an action-adventure meta-genre normally has a happy ending, in the present short story the ending is more appropriate for a novella: the Bolsheviks shoot the hero as a deserter. It is established that the defining feature of the story is the lack of description of the characters’ appearances and their speech is reduced to minimum, which was a general feature of silent film scripts. A tense atmosphere of anxiety and fear is created through the acoustic and visual micro-images with the semantics of panic and horror. The gloomy urban landscapes, the hostility of the world and the sense of the fatal doom of the heroes refer to the German expressionist cinema of the early XX century. It is revealed that the story never mentions the struggle of ideologies or the enemy who seeks to seize Petro's native land. The enemy appears as an invisible and terrifying force, an element that creates chaos and makes it difficult to maintain human dignity. The key to understanding of this on border crazy motivation of the main character is the archetypal theory of C. G. Jung. In the story of I. Dniprovsky, a brave soldier (Persona Petra) in attempt to save himself together with Hanka (Anima), subconsciously seeks to save his Self-Identity. Moreover, a Wise Old Man (Hanka's father) and a Big Mother with a Child are present in the story as well. However, none of them is helpful to Petro and does not encourage the latter to make any attempts for escape. According to the artistic concept of the short story, when escaping from death, a person experiences tremendous stress, which breaks his psyche, so in a borderline situation collective experience fails, everyone tries to save himself. It is emphasized that the story's ending is unexpected: the hero finds himself in the city again, however, he is now in the status of unidentified enemy, whom he tried to escape and now he dies at the hands of the redhead leader.
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Kusuma, Agung. "JK ROWLING’S THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD: A MAGICAL REALISM ANALYSIS." PARADIGM 2, no. 2 (November 30, 2019): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/prdg.v2i2.6841.
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<p class="15" align="justify">Literature plays an important role in psychological and social development of a child. Literature stimulates children<span style="font-family: Calibri;">’</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">s imagination and sharpens their awareness of the world around them. It teaches our children about values, norms, equity, and firmly establishes the qualities of tolerance, compassion, sharing, caring, and ability to solve conflict. Therefore, it is undeniably important to shed a light on what our children read as they will project what they read in stories through their behavior. Using a post-colonial discourse, the writer put forward a well elaborate analysis and findings of magical realism study on JK Rowling</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">’</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">s short stories </span><em>The Tales of Beedle the Bard</em>. Moreover, the analysis focuses on how magical object describing the magical realism aspects is depicted as a part of human life and how it brings affects for the child readers. </p>
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Karbowniczek, Jolanta, and Beata Kucharska. "Coronavirus as an (Anti)Hero of Fairy Tales and Guides for Children." Multidisciplinary Journal of School Education 9, (2) 18 (December 31, 2020): 121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.35765/mjse.2020.0918.06.
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Nowadays, preschool and school children develop, are raised, and learn in a new reality for them, caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Including the assumptions of the connectivist paradigm as a novelty in the didactic activities of teachers, remote e-learning, computer games, board games, e-books, audiobooks, and multimedia programs fill free time and are becoming a way of learning and teaching in the digital age. The literary genre introducing children to the world of the contemporary threat of COVID 19 is the new fairy tale and therapeutic children’s story, thanks to which events and characters struggling with the prevailing pandemic around the world are presented. The purpose of the article is to analyze and interpret innovative proposals for e-books of fairy tales which explain to young children what the coronavirus pandemic is, how to guard against it, what is happening in Poland and around the world, how to behave, and what actions to take to prevent the spread of viruses. In their discussion, the authors emphasize the psychological, sociological, and therapeutic aspects of the presented content of fairy tales, which are most often related to experiences, emotional sensitivity, anxiety, a fear of something bad, an identification with the characters, and overcoming any difficulties in this situation which is trying for all.
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Chalmers, Beverley. "The Medical Manipulation of Reproduction to Implement the Nazi Genocide of Jews." Conatus 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/cjp.20993.
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Holocaust literature gives exhaustive attention to direct means of exterminating Jews, by using gas chambers, torture, starvation, disease, and intolerable conditions in ghettos and camps, and by the Einsatzgruppen. In some circles, the term “Holocaust” has become the ultimate description of horror or horrific events. The Nazi medical experiments and practices are an example of these. Nazi medical science played a central and crucial role in creating and implementing practices designed to achieve a “Master Race.” Doctors interfered with the most intimate and previously sacrosanct aspects of life in these medical experiments – reproductive function and behavior – in addition to implementing eugenic sterilizations, euthanasia, and extermination programs. Manipulating reproductive life – as a less direct method of achieving the genocide of Jews – has been less acknowledged. The Nazis prevented those regarded as not meeting idealized Nazi racial standards – and particularly Jewish women – from having sex or bearing children through legal, social, psychological and biological means, as well as by murder. In contrast, they promoted reproductive life to achieve the antithesis of genocide – the mass promotion of life – among those deemed sufficiently “Aryan.” Implementing measures to prevent birth is a core feature of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. As with many other aspects of the Holocaust, science and scientists were inveigled into providing legitimacy for Nazi actions. The medical profession was no exception and was integrally involved in the manipulation of birth to implement the Holocaust.
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Lee Ehinger, Jessica. "Revolutionizing the Status Quo." Studies in Late Antiquity 3, no. 1 (2019): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sla.2019.3.1.17.
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The works of Anastasius of Sinai offer an important window into the lives of Christians living under Muslim rule at the end of the seventh century. Writing after spending several decades traveling the Muslim-conquered Near East, Anastasius produced works that spoke simultaneously to both the theological significance of Muslim rule and to the continued doctrinal debates between Chalcedonians and anti-Chalcedonians. This article focuses on comparing how Anastasius characterizes Muslims and anti-Chalcedonian Christians, particularly in his Viae dux and collections of edifying tales. Although he often discusses Muslims in connection to demons or other evil forces, these references lack any real sense of horror. Moreover, his works have only limited references to Muslims, and he often use their presence as a pretext to discuss doctrinal variation and heresy instead. It is worth noting that modern study of Anastasius’ corpus has been complicated by confusion over authorship because his works also often lack internal historical references that could be used for consistent dating. Moreover, many aspects of his theology relate to post-Chalcedon doctrine, and therefore could easily be attributed to an author of the sixth century. However, given the monk's travels, which took place during the height of the Muslim incursion into the Levant, the Muslims’ absence may not be merely an accidental omission, but may rather represent a conscious choice by Anastasius to create works that echo pre-Islamic writing, in order to create a sense of continuity and a unified Christian world that was, in reality, disrupted by Muslim rule.
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Gordon, T. S. "Fairy-tale therapy as a way to combat phobias." Vestnik Universiteta, no. 10 (December 11, 2020): 169–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.26425/1816-4277-2020-10-169-172.
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The article considers the fairy-tale therapy as one of the most effective methods to combat phobias and anxiety in primary school age. The author analyses the main aspects of the fairy-tale work, studies its forms, provides examples of creative thinking of primary school pupils, helping to overcome fear and anxiety. Connecting the mind and imagination of a younger schoolboy, the fairy tale helps him find ways and ways to get rid of phobias, aggression and anxiety. The article considers the fairy tale as a tool that presents algorithms for solving specific problems or conflict situations, the consequences of circumstances with a concentrated component of low-frequency emotions, as well as a way to give strength to further fight against fears or even annihilating them. The paper also reviews four types of fairy tales used in therapeutic activities with younger pupils, which have a different mechanism of psychological influence.
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Phoenix, Cassandra, and Bevan Grant. "Expanding the Agenda for Research on the Physically Active Aging Body." Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 17, no. 3 (July 2009): 362–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.17.3.362.
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In this article, the authors consider the different approaches that can be used to examine the relationship between physical activity and aging. They propose that much is to be gained in our awareness of this dynamic relationship by drawing on multiple forms of knowledge that can generate diverse understandings regarding the impact of physical activity on physiological, psychological, and social aspects of aging. Accordingly, 3 different approaches to understanding the older physically (in)active body are presented. These are categorized as (a) the objective truth about the aging, physically active body; (b) the subjective truth about the aging, physically active body; and (c) “tales” about the aging, physically active body. The key underpinnings, strengths, and weaknesses of each approach are outlined. A number of examples from the literature are also offered to demonstrate where and how each approach has been used to contribute to our understanding about older people and physical activity. The more thorough, multidisciplinary, and wide spanning our knowledge of the aging, active body is, the more informed we might become in every dimension of its existence.
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Simkin, Mikhail, and Irina Maltseva. "Coherent Speech Development in Primary School Children with Hearing Impairments." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Humanities and Social Sciences 2020, no. 1 (May 12, 2020): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2542-1840-2020-4-1-38-46.
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The research featured various theoretical approaches to understanding coherent speech as a complex process in psychological and pedagogical aspects. The article focuses on characteristics of coherent speech in primary school children with normal speech development vs. those with hearing impairment. The subject of the research was the technology of coherent speech development in hearing-impaired primary schoolers. The research objective was to identify, prove, and verify the possibility of developing coherent speech in primary school children with hearing problems. A set of experiments measured and described the qualitative and qualitative parameters of coherent speech in primary school children according to specific auditory analyzer deficits. Coherent speech in hearing-impaired primary school children revealed a variety of speech disorders, which manifested themselves in a different ratio of semantic and lexical and grammatical errors at the sentence and text level. The authors propose several technologies of coherent speech development, including picture-aided storytelling, making riddles, fairy tales, and stories based on personal experience. The research proved that the coherent speech development methods should take into account the specifics of hearing impairments.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Psychological aspects of Horror tales"
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Lee, Shun-wai Dorothy. "Children's constructions of meaning in the context of fairy tales." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29791236.
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Tang, Cheong Wai Acty. "Gazing at horror: body performance in the wake of mass social trauma." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002381.
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This thesis explores various dilemmas in making theatre performances in the context of social disruption, trauma and death. Diverse discourses are drawn in to consider issues of body, subjectivity and spectatorship, refracted through the writer’s experiences of and discontent with making theatre. Written in a fractal-like structure, rather than a linear progression, this thesis unsettles discourses of truth, thus simultaneously intervening in debates about the epistemologies of the body and of theatre in context of the academy. Chapter 1: Methodological Anxieties Psychoanalytic theory provides a way in for investigating the dynamics of theatrical performance and its corporeal presence, by focusing on desire and its implication in the notions of loss and anxiety. The theories of the unconscious and the gaze have epistemological implications, shifting definitions of “presence” and “truth” in theatre performance and writing about theatre. This chapter tries to outline the rationale for, as well as to enact, an alternative methodology for writing, as an ethical response to loss that does not insist on consensus and truth. Chapter 2: (Refusing to) Look at Trauma This chapter examines the politics that strives to make suffering visible. Discursive binaries of public/private, dead/living, and invisible/visible underlie the politics of AIDS and sexuality. These discourses impact on the reception of Bill T. Jones's choreography, despite his use of modernist artistic processes in search of a bodily presence that aims to collapse the binary of representation (text) and its subject (being). The theory of the gaze shows this politics to be a phallocentric discourse; and narrative analysis traces the metanarrative that results in the commodification of oppositional identities, so that spectators participate in the politics as consumers. An ethical artistic response thus needs to shift its focus to the subjectivity of the spectator. Chapter 3: The Screen and the Viewer’s Blindness By appealing to a transcendent reality, and by constituting spectators as a participative community, ritual theatre claims to enact change. The “truth” of ritual rests not on rational knowledge, but on the performer’s competence to produce a shamanic presence, which director Brett Bailey embraces in his early work. Ritual presence operates by identification and belonging to a father/god as the source of meaning; but it represses the loss of this originary wholeness. Spectators of ritual theatre are drawn into an enactment of communion/community, the centre of which is, however, loss/emptiness. The claim of enacting change becomes problematic for its absence of truth. Bailey attempts to perform a hybrid, postcolonial aesthetics; but the problem rests in the larger context of performing the notion of “South Africa”, a communal identity hardened around the metanarrative of suffering, abjecting those that do not belong to the land of the father/god – foreigners that unsettle the meaning of South African identity. Conclusion: Bodies of Discontent The South African stage is circumscribed by political and economic discourses; the problematization of national identity is also a problematization of image-identification in the theatre. In search for a way to unsettle these interrogative discourses, two moments of performing foreignness are examined, one fictional, one theatrical. These moments enact a parallel to the feminine hysteric, who disturbs the phallocentric truth of the psychoanalyst through body performance. These moments of disturbing spectatorship are reflected in the works of performance artist Marina Abramovic. Her explorations into passive-aggression, shamanism and finally theatricality and the morality of spectatorship allow for an overview of the issues raised in this thesis regarding body, viewing, and subjecthood. Sensitivity to the body and its discontent on the part of the viewer becomes crucial to ethical performance.
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Chan, Pui Nam. "Empowerment and vampire literature: an examination of female vampire characters as a cultural response to oppression." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/475.
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Vampire and Vampirism have raised the interests of the public from 1700s. Vampire is being used as a lens to discuss social issues in the real world. However, it is seen that there are limited works discussing the situation of coloured communities. This project is to examine female vampire figures in select works and evaluate the extent to which those figures are able to represent an empowered image of women of colour. To achieve this aim, textual analysis will be used to examine classical vampire literature, such as Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1872/2003), Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "Luella Miller" (1902/2014), Bram Stoker's Dracula (2007), Anne O'Brien Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976/2010) and L. A. Banks's Minion (2003). There will be interdisciplinary reading of the social situation and behavior of the colored alongside with textual analysis of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories: A Novel (1991) and Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling: A Novel (2005). I will conclude that vampire literature has the ability and potentiality to reflect social behavior and environment of the coloured, especially coloured women. The contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate that reflecting the situation of the coloured can be a new area for vampire literature to explore in the future development and evolution of vampire literature as a genre. This is also breakthrough to the function of vampire literature as a genre because on top of appearing as entertainment and reflection of society, vampire literature is able to serve social function to empower and enlighten readers by raising their awareness to social issues that people are used to neglect.
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Guyot, Amelie M. L. "Spaces for enchantment and the unknown : fairy tales, complexity thinking and a search for new ways of dreaming : children-centred sustainable development." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2523.
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Thesis (MPhil (Sustainable Development Planning and Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.This research explores spaces for enchantment and the unknown, exploring our relationship to fairy-tales and alternative ways of dreaming that break from a modern worldview, using complexity thinking as lens. I conducted extra-mural group work with two groups of adolescents from disadvantaged backgrounds. I considered the world young people receive at a metaphysical level; the world they dream of, connect to and enact. My thesis is based on the premise that we must act towards a ‘sustainable unknown development’ that goes beyond modern deadly homogenisation. The research objectives were as follows: Firstly, to explore the relationship between dreams (about the future) and a sustainable future. Secondly, to reflect, based on the group’s holding-space, on our relationship to dreams. Thirdly, to reflect on possible alternative ways of approaching the unknown and enacting enchantment to create change. Fourthly, to explore the importance of imagination and creativity with regards to the above. I review literature pertaining to the affects of the modern paradigm, specifically in its fairy tale blueprinting form, on our world. I argue that this paradigm is currently dangerous to the earth as a living system; causing the oppression and abandonment of nature, the feminine, children and our imagination. Alternative ways such as states of ‘interbeing’, polycentric thinking, and the experience of thresholds and heterotopian spaces where differences meet, are considered. The importance of personal experience and imagination in building resilience and meaning in the unknown are emphasised. My research uses a practical design of ‘enchantment methodology’. Methodologically it tries to tackle some ontological questions, considering different approaches in which negotiation is possible at a metaphysical level. My findings were that although alternative approaches do exist they cannot be generalised in a modern thinking way. Beyond the modern numbness and the tantrums of breaking away from its devastating divides, is the potential of inner wisdom found in our own hearts. Recommendations are that more holding spaces are created to promote an alternative relationship to the unknown to nurture a sense of enchantment.
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Plank, Jackeline Eleonora. "The use of fairy tales in therapy with children." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9114.
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M.A. (Clinical Psychology)The present study explores, through means of a selective literature study and the presentation of a descriptive single case study, whether fairy tales can be used as a viable medium or tool in therapeutic work with children. This involves an examination of a central debate between theoretical perspectives that advocate an understanding of fairy tales based on their intrinsic or absolute meaning or those that view fairy tales from a relational perspective where meaning is consensually negotiated and validated through its interpersonal locatedness. A single descriptive case study, in which fairy tale telling was a feature of a therapeutic case conducted with a five-year-old client at a children's home, is presented and evaluated in light of the literature reviewed. It was found that themes similar to those reflected in the review of the literature were present and evidenced by the therapist involved wi th the clinical case study. These themes are conceptualised using a constructivist framework that offers an integrative conceptualisation accommodating both intrapsychic as well as inter-personal theoretical distinctions.
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"Die eietydse weergawe van tradisionele sprokies en die feminisme se invloed daarop." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13525.
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M.A.The success of a child's development from egocentricity to a broader socialization largely depends on the experiences of early childhood. The potential formative value of children's literature has repeatedly been proven by research. Being a cornerstone of children's literary heritage, the fairy tale has led to research being done from various perspectives. The tendency towards contemporary versions of traditional fairy tales has brought a new dimension to this genre and offers a field of research which up to now has been unexplored in South Africa. Apart from keeping them commercially viable, the various techniques used in contemporary versions can also transform them into podiums from which ideologies and viewpoints, feminism included, can be conveyed to children. With this in mind the study was undertaken by means of a literature survey. It concentrates on the different aspects concerning typical characteristics and the possible influence of fairy tales on children. Examples of contemporary versions readily available ill South Africa are discussed. The research has shown concern within feminist circles about possible sexist stereotypes which are brought across in children's literature, including traditional fairy tales, and the possible dangers it holds for the socialization of children. The feminist pursuit of a balanced portrayal of women in children's literature has led to the appearance of many contemporary versions of fairy tales in which the image of the traditional passive heroine is transformed, either subtly or radically. Research concerning the impact of these non-sexist versions on children and their acceptance or rejection of it, is limited and the results are inconclusive. The research has also touched upon the polemic surrounding the rewriting of traditional fairy tales in order to accommodate modern viewpoints. The possible danger involving biased interpretation of a diverse traditional literary genre has also been highlighted.
Books on the topic "Psychological aspects of Horror tales"
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Jones, E. Michael. Monsters from the Id: The rise of horror in fiction and film. Dallas, Tex: Spence Pub. Co., 2000.
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Terrors of uncertainty: The cultural contexts of horror fiction. London: Routledge, 1989.
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Matthew, Brennan. The gothic psyche: Disintegration and growth in nineteenth-century English literature. Columbia, SC, USA: Camden House, 1997.
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No go the bogeyman: Scaring, lulling, and making mock. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
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Nicol, Valérie de Courville. Le soupçon gothique: L'intériorisation de la peur en Occident. Laval: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2004.
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Owens, Rebekah. "Polanski and Horror: Rosemary’s Baby." In Macbeth, 15–26. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325130.003.0002.
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This chapter considers Roman Polanski's approach to the genre and horror output before the film Macbeth. It discusses Polanski's 1965 work Repulsion, that centres around Carol Ledoux and her disintegrating sanity, which is expressed from her subjective viewpoint. It also mentions how Repulsion showed Polanski as a master of the craft of psychological horror. The chapter looks at the Gothic aspects of the horror genre that is recorded in Polanski's autobiography, where he wrote of his experiences watching horror films in Paris. It details how Polanski decided to make a horror film that was designed to make people laugh, rather than the unintentional merriment that Hammer horror had provoked.
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Gracey, James. "Introduction." In The Company of Wolves, 7–12. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325314.003.0001.
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This chapter focuses on The Company of Wolves, as a dark fantasy film about the horrors of the adult world and of adult sexuality glimpsed through the dreams of an adolescent girl. It analyses how The Company of Wolves amalgamates aspects of horror, the Female Gothic, fairy tales, werewolf films and coming-of-age parables. It also illustrates how The Company of Wolves is drenched in atmosphere and an eerily sensual malaise that boasts striking imagery immersed in fairy-tale motifs and startling Freudian symbolism. The chapter mentions Neil Jordan as the director of The Company of Wolves, his second film and his first foray into the realms of Gothic horror. It cites several short stories from Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber from 1979 as the basis for The Company of Wolves.
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Fennell, Jack. "Breeding Breaks Out." In Rough Beasts, 186–210. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620344.003.0008.
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A central tenet of modern Western culture is the distinction between human and animal, particularly on psychological and cultural grounds: physical differences aside, we emphasise our difference from other species by defining self-awareness, motive, individuality and history as uniquely human traits – to be an animal is effectively to be an automaton. This denial of sapience to animals (or, at its most charitable extreme, the ascription of a kind of ‘diminished personhood’ to them) is fruitful ground for gothic and horror stories. On the one hand, to become or act like an animal is a kind of dissolution; on the other hand, an animal that behaves like a human provokes an unnerving, uncanny response. This chapter considers these aspects of animal-horror, alongside the unsettling phenomena of animal ‘vagrants’ and cryptids, to look at how authors have disrupted the boundaries between human and beast.
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Alpatov, Sergey. "The Concept of Family in Traditional Narratives of Tale Type ATU 1343* “The Children Play at Hog-Killing”." In Slavic & Jewish Cultures Dialogue Similarities Differences, 273–93. Sefer; Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2658-3356.2020.14.
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The article is devoted to the study of the problem of verbal representation of the real experience of family tragedies in the cultural baggage of European oral and handwritten traditions, which is becoming particularly relevant in modern conditions of the growth of information flows, a change in communicative paradigms and the transformation of social roles and value hierarchies. The object of study is the popular tales of the plot ATU 1343* “The Children Play at Hog-Killing”, considered in terms of motive structure, genesis, as well as genre forms of its implementation (rumor, short story, ballad, life of the saint, novel, urban legend). The study shows that for the traditional minds the depiction of bloody details and the elaboration of an atmosphere of horror aims not to entertain the audience, but to form a collective psychological response to such a powerful existential challenge as a bloody family tragedy. In turn, for a researcher folk narratives about fatal events breaking the structure of everyday life is a way to get out the traditional point of view on the subject and at the same time is a chance to give a correct typological scale and historical perspective for these acutely relevant and socially significant narratives.
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Karnaukhova, Antonina. "PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF RESPECTFUL ATTITUDE IN CHILDREN OF THE 5TH YEAR OF LIFE TO ADULTS BY MEANS OF THE UKRAINIAN FAIRY TALE." In Priority areas for development of scientific research: domestic and foreign experience. Publishing House “Baltija Publishing”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-049-0-19.
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In today's society there are social and cultural changes that characterize the modern style of formation of human relationships, changing models of interpersonal interaction. These processes penetrate even the level of the relationship between preschool children and adults (parents, teachers and other adults) with whom they interact. Parents, as the founders of a positive family microclimate, form in children value orientations and moral norms, cultivate in them personal qualities in order to gradually engage in social activities. The institution of the family needs pedagogical support from the very first educational institution – the institution of preschool education, in particular from the preschool teacher, in matters of choosing effective and appropriate educational technologies in the moral sphere. In view of this, there is a need for scientific substantiation and methodological support of the educational process aimed at forming the personality of a preschool child in an adequate model of interpersonal interaction, in which the child is the subject of real relationships established and developed on the basis of moral values. formation of respectful attitude in children of the 5th year of life to adults. Historical analysis of scientific and pedagogical experience allows us to assert the priority of values in society and human life, because the future of society and its culture will depend on how much they are accepted and actualized by each person. In the context of the national revival of the spirituality and culture of the Ukrainian people, the formation of the individual and, in particular, its moral sphere, is a priority of the philosophical, psychological and pedagogical aspects of society. The culture of intergenerational relations is analyzed and its types are singled out (M. Mead): post-figurative, co-figurative, pre-figurative. The purpose and tasks of research are defined, in particular: philosophical researches are described, structural elements of concepts «morality», «moral values» are specified. The potential of the Ukrainian fairy tale in the context of the research topic is revealed; the functions performed by fairy tales are analyzed: mirrors, alternative concepts, models, mediation, changes of position, storage of experience. Pedagogical conditions of formation of respectful attitude to adults in children of the 5th year of life are substantiated, namely: creation of developmental environment in preschool educational institution for the purpose of maintenance of a positive emotional background of perception by pupils of moral maintenance of fairy tales; systematic enrichment of knowledge of children of the 5th year of life by the content of fairy tales of moral orientation; involvement of children in practically oriented activities in the context of creative interpretation of fairy tales with subsequent behavioral projection and tested their effectiveness in the educational process of preschool education in Ukraine. Comparative results of experimental research are described. The obtained data testify to the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions for the formation of respectful attitude in children 5 years old to adults with the help of a Ukrainian fairy tale. The prospect of further research requires the question of the educational trajectory of educators in order to increase their pedagogical competence in moral education.
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Trickey, David, and Dora Black. "Child trauma." In New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 1728–31. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0225.
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This chapter will focus on the impact on children of traumatic events other than child abuse or neglect, which are covered in Chapter 9.3.3. According to the DSM-IV-TR definition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic events involve exposure to actual or threatened death or injury, or a threat to physical integrity. The child's response generally involves an intense reaction of fear, horror, or helplessness which may be exhibited through disorganized or agitated behaviour. Terr suggested separating traumatic events into type I traumas which are single sudden events and type II traumas which are long-standing or repeated events. If the traumatic event includes bereavement, the reactions may be complicated and readers should consult Chapter 9.3.7 to address the bereavement aspects of the event. Following a traumatic event, children may react in a variety of ways (see Chapters 4.6.1 and 4.6.2 for the adult perspective on reactions to stressful and traumatic events). Many show some of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder—re-experiencing the event (e.g. through nightmares, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, re-enactment, or repetitive play of the event), avoidance and numbing (e.g. avoidance of conversations, thoughts, people, places, and activities associated with the traumatic event, inability to remember a part of the event, withdrawal from previously enjoyed activities, feeling different from others, restriction of emotions, sense of foreshortened future), and physiological arousal (e.g. sleep disturbance, irritability, concentration problems, being excessively alert to further danger, and being more jumpy). In young children the nightmares may become general nightmares rather than trauma-specific. Other reactions to trauma in children are: ♦ becoming tearful and upset or depressed ♦ becoming clingy to carers or having separation anxiety ♦ becoming quiet and withdrawn ♦ becoming aggressive ♦ feeling guilty ♦ acquiring low self-esteem ♦ deliberately self-harming ♦ acquiring eating problems ♦ feeling as if they knew it was going to happen ♦ developing sleep disturbances such as night-terrors or sleepwalking ♦ dissociating or appearing ‘spaced out’ ♦ losing previously acquired developmental abilities or regression ♦ developing physical symptoms such as stomach aches and headaches ♦ acquiring difficulties remembering new information ♦ developing attachment problems ♦ acquiring new fears ♦ developing problems with alcohol or drugs. Such problems may individually or in combination cause substantial difficulties at school and at home. The reactions of some children will diminish over time; however, for some they will persist, causing distress or impairment, warranting diagnosis, and/or intervention. Research predicting which children will be more likely to be distressed following a traumatic event suffers from a number of methodological flaws. However, factors which are often identified as constituting a risk for developing PTSD across a number of studies include: level of exposure, perceived level of threat and peri-traumatic fear, previous psychological problems, family difficulties, co-morbid diagnoses, subsequent life events, and lack of social support.