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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Introducing the issue
1.2 Rationale and Theoretical Framework
Chapter Two Fairy Tales and Cinderella Stories
2.1 Folk tales and Fairy tales
2.1.1 Definition and Motifs
2.1.2 History
2.2 Cinderella Stories
2.2.1 Origin
2.2.2 Propagation
2.3 Motifs and Bases of Cinderella stories
2.3.1 Motifs
2.3.2 Cinderella in Reality
2.4 Popularity of Cinderella Stories and Reasons
2.4.1 From a Psychological View
2.4.2 Other Possibilities
Chapter Three Sibling Rivalry and Literature
3.1 Looking into Sibling Rivalry
3.1.1 Defining Sibling Rivalry
3.1.2 Causes for Its Occurrence
3.1.3 Positive and Negative Effects of Sibling Rivalry
3.2 Sibling Rivalry in Literature
3.2.1 Sibling Rivalry Found in Earlier Book
3.2.2 Sibling Rivalry in Different Cinderella Versions
3.3 Sibling Rivalry in Other Narratives
Chapter Four Meta-narrative, Proto-narrative and Their Functions
4.1 Understanding Meta-Narrative
4.1.1 In Definition
4.1.2 In Literal Terms
4.1.3 In Sociological Perspective
4.1.4 Outside of Sociology
4.1.5 Further Exploration
4.2 Proto-narratives
4.3 Referential Function
4.3.1 From a Cognitive View
4.3.2 Examples of Referential Function
4.4 Restrictive Function
4.4.1 Understanding the Restrictive Function
4.4.2 Possible Causes
4.4.3 Expressions
Chapter Five Controversies over Meta-narrative and Test of its Soundness in Case of Cinderella Stories
5.1 Lyotard's Perspective of Meta-narrative
5.2 From Fredric Jameson's Opinion on Meta-narrative
5.3 Test of its Soundness in Case of Cinderella Stories
5.3.1 From Lyotard's View
5.3.2 From Jameson's View
Chapter Six Conclusion
6.1 Brief Summary of the Findings
6.2 Further Study
Notes
Bibliography
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