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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Didactic literature"”.
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"Breve Y Eficaz:" Exemplum And Pedagogy In Iberian Didactic Literature (1169-1611)
The idea of literature as a set of ethical examples for readers to imitate is a familiar justification for the arts in the classical and medieval eras. Nothing better encapsulates this application of storytelling than the “exemplum,” brief narratives with a moral lesson. Through these short …
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"For the continuance of their favours": Women, the public sphere and the print culture in England, 1750-1760
… Despite the constraints imposed by prescriptive literature, women who used the print culture in eighteenth-century England asserted their public economic and social lives. Women's public and non-domestic lives were not effectively stifled by the didactic literature and domestic ideology they …
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The significance of pop-up : an exploration of mechanical engineering's impact on storytelling
… the concept and perception of children's literature -- has changed drastically since the 18 th century. The introduction of movable books was an important step in the gradual shift from didactic literature toward immersive, imaginative stories. These books also drew engineering into the …
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Heroes and Kings in the Legend of Hrolf Kraki
… kraka in the context of medieval historiography, didactic literature, heroic lays, and courtly fiction has supported the thesis that the saga of Hrolfr kraki can be read as a negative King's Mirror, presented not in the traditional dialogic form but rather as a narrative. The saga can be …
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Das Andere Schreiben : Satire gegen die Frau und gegen die Ehe als Schreibmodell in lateinischen und altfranzösischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts
… of genre as well as in the history of medieval literature. The inquiry crosses the boundaries of Romance and Latin Philology and shows that, especially in the field of satirical and didactic literature, close relationships between vernacular and learned literature call for a comparative …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
Conduct and courtesy literature have a long history, its vernacular tradition extending back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We are familiar with modern versions of this literature: Ann Landers advice column, women's magazines, and even modern books that tell us about etiquette. My …
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Open the door to English with your native language : the role of the mother tongue in English language teaching in China
… as Learners”. There are some self-reports in the didactic literature from FL teachers who start to learn another FL themselves. These teachers have been trained to teach monolingually, but in their own FL learning, they strongly prefer bilingual help. When taking an opposite position in the …
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Medieval Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Teaching with and about Signs in Several Didactic Genres
… the proper way to interpret signs is the didactic focus in these genres and that their authors were also deeply concerned with scrutinizing their own use of signs in conveying this instruction. As medieval sign theory finds its origin in Augustinian semiotics, Chapter 1 of my dissertation …