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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Folk tale"”.
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The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning the Use and Adaptation of Folktale Characteristics in <i>Anime</i>
… this thesis, I examine the relationship between folk tales and Japanese animation, or <em>anime</em>. In spite of the popular association between animation and adolescence, animated television series and films have a dynamic and compelling relationship with various age groups and nationalities. …
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Metamorphosis in Red
Folk and fairy tales have been told for centuries and they remain a mainstay in children's literature. When they were first written down, the tales included startling episodes of mistreatment of women, including sexual assault, oppression and violence. Though these stories have become sanitized …
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Horses, swine and magical birds : the role of animals in the Mabinogion.
… throughout the Mabinogion collection of tales. This thesis explores the significance of these animals in some depth, considering why so many appear, what purposes they serve and how they affect both the characters and the overall narratives. On a general level animals act as catalysts - …
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A World of Reading:An Intertextual Study of Janet Frame's Novels
… plays. Finally I explore Frame’s allusion to folklore, European and Maori myth and oral literature. I examine the psychological insight of folk tale into childhood experience and its use in elucidating dark and uncommunicating elements of Frame’s characters. My investigation makes an original …
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Conducting L'Histoire du Soldat : a tale of two libretti
… du Soldat, based his libretto on a Russian folk tale, but in 1993, Vonnegut wrote a new text to accompany Stravinsky’s music, a text inspired by the true story of Private Eddie Slovik, the last American soldier executed for desertion. In essence, Vonnegut collaborates with Stravinsky in a …
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Temporal structure and meaning : the defamiliarization of the reader in Faulkner's Go down, Moses
… the affective impact of strategically-arranged folk conventions and mythopoeic devices upon a textually-based, white "civilized" reader. Using the devices of Southwestern humor, the trickster, and the tragic Black folk tale, "Was" through "Pantaloon in Black" repeatedly sidetrack the reader into …
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Rescripting the political romance: Narratives of kingship, tyranny and community
… of five Middle English poems (Havelok, The Tale of Gamelyn, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther, Robert of cisyle), normally classed among the romances, in the cultural process of constructing and regulating contemporary understandings of good kingship, tyranny, and community. In their participation in …
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The Lodger
<p>Part alternate history, part supernatural folk tale, The Lodger will be a neogothic novel that is heavily influenced by discourses surrounding the concept of the sublime and by ideas of feminist medicine.</p> <p>Drawing on conventions of Gothic horror, The Lodger will be characterized by …
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A cultural biography of an acclaimed Queen of Xhosa music, Madosini Manqineni, and her contributions to Xhosa cultural music
… but also contains critical debate on intsomi as 'folk tale' as an 'oral literature', with reference to earlier scholars; the Xhosa approach to intsomi and an example of such by Madosini, in the Xhosa language, with English translation. Chapter 4 looks at Madosini as a teacher, composer and musical …