Why can’t real life be more like a fairy tale? In the real world, all we got are Crocs, sleepless nights, and random dudes ...

Race And The Development Of The European Fairy Tale, Literature Professor Kimberly Lau reveals how “innocent” stories often ...

The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character ...

Prof. Armando Maggi, PhD’95, began his Humanities Day 2011 lecture with a clip from the opening scene of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Released in 1938, it was the first fairy tale to be turned ...

This year, the Respectful Relationships curriculum was rolled out in Victorian schools. As part of it, children are taught to think critically about traditional fairy tales by looking at the gender ...

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm never intended to write for children. The first edition of their “fairy tale” collection was scholarly, with footnotes and no pictures. They portrayed sex and violence that ...

The male ruler of Ireland's fairy folk appears in many guises throughout folklore including the benevolent Finvarra and the ...

The director’s great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.

Many much-loved traditional fairy tales are inappropriate, outdated and too scary for young children, according to young Brits. Forty-six per cent of Brits under 30 believe that traditional fairy ...