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The film includes these two tales as well as the Miller's Tale, the Summoner's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and the Merchant's Tale.

Print. The Franklin’s Tale is a Breton Lai tale, which takes the tale into a liminal space by invoking both the interaction of the supernatural and the mortal, but the relation between the present and the imagined past.

Already a fabled samuruai, Yoshinaka also stars in "The Tale of Heike," which studies the philosophies of the samurai and the buddhist in a tale of war.

As a new chapter unfolds under Wike’s leadership, the tale of Abuja’s rejuvenation serves as both a cautionary tale and an inspiring narrative of the possibilities that lie ahead.

Unwilling to share her traumas without recompense, Cash initiates a barter: a tale for a tale.

After all, in the public imagination, the righteous indignation incurred by a tale of justice avoided must eventually be assuaged by a tale of justice done.

One tale, a harrowing account of a lost utopian community in backwoods Maine, is revisited in another tale, but as an academic paper written centuries later that gets the history of that community completely wrong.

You don’t have to have seen the previous plays to enjoy, Strawberry Jack: A Tale from Paradise Heights a gritty urban thriller with a rich vein of the supernatural, it's a great tale on its own.

Kana calligraphy was even used to write the 11th century epic tale “The Tale of Genji,” which is often called the as it was one of the first major examples of long-form fiction,and was authored by a woman — lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu.

The bright, vivid colors and idyllic setting makes one think they are watching a fairy tale, but the tale just keeps getting darker and darker.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.

The piercing violins and female screams that play as the tale is told are as equally jarring as Cave's tale and the way he tells it.

In the original fairy tale, a young girl comes to live with an ailing old woman who starts the tale in motion by taking the girl to get new shoes for communion.

Again, however, tales such as the Nun's Priest's Tale show surprising skill with words among the lower classes of the group, while the Knight's Tale is at times extremely simple.

Another Nights tale with crime fiction elements was "The Hunchback's Tale" story cycle which, unlike "The Three Apples", was more of a suspenseful comedy and courtroom drama rather than a murder mystery or detective fiction.

Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale ; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true.

Definition From The Facetious Nights of Straparola by Giovanni Francesco Straparola Although the fairy tale is a distinct genre within the larger category of folktale, the definition that marks a work as a fairy tale is a source of considerable dispute.

Degh, p. 73. History Ivan Bilibin 's illustration of the Russian fairy tale about Vasilisa the Beautiful The oral tradition of the fairy tale came long before the written page.

Feminist science fiction continues on into the 1980s with Margaret Atwood 's novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), a dystopic tale of a theocratic society in which women have been systematically stripped of all liberty.

In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in " The Tale of Two Brothers ", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth.