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Showing 1 to 20 of 410 for “"Folklore"”.
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Black Aggie: A Tale of American Folklore
Black Aggie: A Tale of American Folklore italic is a musical work written for wind symphony and synthesizer. The piece has the possibility to be performed in two different ways. It can either be performed by a live wind symphony or can be played as an electronic realization with media. The piece …
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Folklore in the Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6202985.pdf: 14066552 bytes, checksum: 99309deae89b6c5826a3841b95a86815 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Wattpad as an Online Medium for Contemporary Folklore
… focuses its discussion within the discipline of folklore by identifying Wattpad.com as a contemporary medium of online folkloric content. Wattpad provides its users with a text-based—and sometimes multimodal—means of communication via its interface that mimics traditional communication as we know …
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Irish Celtic folklore in The picture of Dorian Gray
… a natural, even inevitable culmination of Irish folklore placed in a Victorian London setting. questions lie in Wilde's Irish background. By looking at the mythology and folklore of Wilde's native Ireland, the “mysteries” become part of a natural, even inevitable culmination of Irish folklore …
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La revista Folklore: boom folklórico, nacionalismo y dictadura (1961-1981)
… investigación se propone estudiar a la revista Folklore editada entre junio de 1961 y septiembre de 1981 en Argentina. La revista nace en la década de oro del folklore dentro del fenómeno conocido como ‘boom folklórico’. Este proceso estimuló al género y lo volvió masivo, multiplicándose las …
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Elements of folklore in “House of Houses” by Pat Mora
Growing up in an immigrant family in America is a challenge for individuals, for they face the dilemma of abandoning their cultural identity through assimilation into the mainstream Anglo-American culture. Pat Mora, a Mexican-American writer, in her memoir House of Houses develops the theme of the …
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The Circle Always Grew: Folklore and Gay Identity, 1945-1960
… as a means of doing field research, the folklore of Gay men of this era is examined. Interviews were conducted with men who were out in the Gay world during the fifteen years after 1945. Biographies of the men are provided. Specific kinds of folkloric behavior are explicated including bar …
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Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure
<p>Amidst a surge of plantation fiction writing during the era of American Realism, Charles Chesnutt was arguably one of the most controversial yet prolific authors to address the recent advent of slavery. <em>The Conjure Woman</em> was a publication of seven frame narratives that employed the …
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Tauser Killed Both Dogs and Other Suburban American Family Folklore
<p>This thesis attempts to answer the questions "What purposes do family pets and the narratives we tell about them serve in modern American society?" and "What do these stories tell us about what Americans value and about where we locate our ‘value center’?" In Chapter 1, I discuss how Americans …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… this thesis, I examine the relationship between folklore and nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. More specifically, I focus on how the Nazis used folklore and the work of folklorists in their propaganda. The first chapter documents the development of nationalism and the …
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Cynhaeaf:customs, practices and folklore associated with the traditional harvest in Wales
… proposed. An exploration of a range of harvest folklore demonstrates in particular the constant personification of sheaves as animals or people. The essay concludes by tracing the traditional supper at the end of harvest, the merrymaking associated with it, and the reasons for its eventual …
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Mongolian Folklore Expressed through Music Technology Original Multimedia Soundtrack on Horseback
I returned to my hometown and recorded Mongolian folk music- Mongolian Long Song and Mongolian Throat Singing. I wanted to combine technology and traditional folk music and write an electronic piece based on Mongolian vocal materials. I used what I've sampled, manipulated the sounds, composed the …
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The Place of Folklore in The Creative Art of Mark Twain
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:51:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0016394.pdf: 17095692 bytes, checksum: 92db904850e91960646fced26331e12d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore
… narrative, and reframing heritage through the folklore of Hauran.
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Rewriting a Mythic Nation : Welsh Women Writers Recovering Welsh Myth and Folklore
… the function of Welsh mythology, fairy tale and folklore in a selection of works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone Welsh women writers who choose to engage with such source material. Its aim is to provide a critical response to those recoveries through feminist and postcolonial …
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The Paganist Totem Birds in Slavic Folklore: The Black and The White
… and traces are visible through the passed down folklore that spread through the land. While we talk of animals and their representation in folklore, we usually only refer to the Christian written western folklore, but these pagan born animals stand in strong contrast to them. The Slavic people …
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