Imagine bringing a guest to your family’s seder — a newcomer to the Pesach traditions. “We will tell the story of our journey from slavery to freedom,” you explain, “and along the way, we will eat ...

The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American ...

Telling family stories about crazy Uncle Joe or other eccentric relatives is a favorite pastime when families gather for the holidays. But will squirming children or Instagram-obsessed teens bother to ...

In WR 120 Reimagining Fairy Tales, we spend the semester reading, thinking, and writing about fairy tales from diverse perspectives, considering how these stories shape our cultural understandings of ...

Kilkenny writer Karina Tynan has rewritten the Irish epic "Táin", a heroic tale focused on the legendary figure Cúchulainn, from the women’s perspective. "TÁIN: The Women's Stories" is the first ...

We all remember the glass slippers, but Cinderella’s story has been told and retold for hundreds of years, shifting to fit each new audience. At its heart is a fantasy that never wears out: someone ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers compared story retelling between humans and the large language model (LLM), chat generative pre-trained transformer (ChatGPT) ...

Discuss what myths are and their importance. Watch video clips to identify how and why three modern-day writers reinterpret myths to reflect contemporary themes and points of view. Rewrite a myth in ...

Help young learners strengthen reading comprehension and story-retelling skills with clear, structured Five-Finger Retell activities. Using short narrative passages and simple organisers, pupils ...

In her book Gilead, Marilynne Robinson gives life to a character named Pastor John Ames. In explaining his work, Ames says, "Now it's Sunday again. When you do this sort of work, it seems to be Sunday ...