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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Folktale"”.
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The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning the Use and Adaptation of Folktale Characteristics in <i>Anime</i>
<p>In 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 …
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An analysis of high school students' responses to recreated folktale selections
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Structure of Narratives: Applying Propp's folktale morphology to entertainment-education films
… (1968) methodological framework, morphology of a folktale, was utilized to analyze films containing HIV/AIDS messages. The study employed a cross-cultural study design to investigate films in four different languages. The films were Longtime Companion, All About My Mother, Yesterday and Mirugam in …
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Chosi Ntsomi! making a Xhosa theatre identity by adapting Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's folktale about a rite of passage for Xhosa girls
Inspired by the performativity of Xhosa cultural belief systems, my study aims to develop dignified theatrical roles for African women. This essay explores the potential of perceptions of Xhosa cultural women, configured in oral storytelling, as a means towards developing a base for Nguni theatre. …
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Aspects of the Oral Heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-Speaking Jewish Community of Zakho
… the enriched biblical narrative, and the folktale. During the past three decades, there has been a renewed interest in research on Neo-Aramaic, and a substantial growth of research in the field has been seen. However, the contemporary study of Neo-Aramaic has been focused almost …
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Courting Death
A blend of literary fiction and folktale, Courting Death is a novel about women at the fringes, marginalized women, and women who have been direct targets of gender-based violence. The narrative draws from conventions of traditional African oral storytelling and the conventions associated with …
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Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories
… Daughter" is a modern retelling of a medieval folktale. I see the novel, Twelve Hearts of Clay as the heart of the thesis. The concept for the novel came to me slowly, and over the course of a number of drafts, beginning in the Fall of 2010 in Dr. Cokal's Novel Writing Workshop. I've included …
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Adventures in the Classroom Creating Role-Playing Games Based on Traditional Stories for the High School Curriculum
… mythology, Arthurian legends, and a widespread folktale type, I explored the process of creating games that fit the limits of secondary classrooms and can be used to address specific educational standards. The sample games were tested with groups of high school and college students, and the …
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One Hundred Jests of Afanti
… and Aarne-Thompson's The Types of the Folktale.</p>
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Role of Causal Relationships in the Story Comprehension of Children
… on-line processing during comprehension. Grimm's folktales, translated by Wanda Gag (1936), were used. A causal network of events has been developed for each folktale, using the Trabasso et al. model. Subjects included 12 third grade and 12 sixth grade students. On-line processing was measured at …
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The conception and evolution of characterization in the Zulu novel
… The study shows that factors such as folktale residual material, traditional beliefs, christianization, urbanization, industrialization, etc. all have in one way or another impacted on the art of characterization in the Zulu novel. For this purpose we have divided the Zulu novel into …
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Blood ties : and 'Kings. what a good idea' : monarchy in epic fantasy fiction
… epic fantasy novels. It considers evidence from folktale research, primate behavioural studies, literary traditions, both ancient and modern, and the effect of religious doctrine and history on the symbolic role of the monarch. Folktales are found to have had very little effect on the role of …
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Picturing a Nation Divided: Art, American Identity and the Crisis over Slavery
… the Arkansas Traveler. Based upon a popular folktale originating twenty years earlier, Washbourne used the image to convey his understanding of the crisis over slavery in the western territories. Artists in north and south responded to the slavery debate with differing visions of the western …
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A GUIDEWAY THROUGH THE LAND OF GHOSTS AND OTHER STORIES
… plain sight. Inspired by Chinese mythology and folktale, this collection consists of three novella-length pieces of fiction and one flash-fiction interlude all set in the same universe. The form is largely inspired by a Chinese classic called <em>Shan Hai Jing,</em> or as scholar Richard E. …
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The Art of Designing a Meaningful Landscape through Storytelling
… DC. The story for the project is a Japanese folktale that communicates the culture of Japan. The project is a case study that explores if the set of design principles within the storytelling approach can invest meaning into a landscape.
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Ecofeminism and the Gothic Archives of American Folk Horror : Shadows of the Anthropos
… Robert Eggers's The VVitch: A New-England Folktale) and a first discussion of a potential corpus of the genre ranging from frontier gothic literature and contemporary film to video games of the 2020s.
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Technology in Education
… part of the paper is a comprehensive unit on folktales. The unit consists of 11 lessons, and several of the lessons incorporate the technology strategies that have been discussed in the paper. Students will conduct several writing assignments: using word processors, online writing …
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Listen to the River: Dolores, Ophelia, and Female Resistance in Opera
… received in opera plots. The Mexican folktale that my opera, <em>The Tragedy of La Llorona</em>, draws inspiration from plays on many of the same tropes historically found in female characters in opera including madness, sexuality, and lack of agency. This led to research into the …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying Men with Broken Wrists: Using Intsomi as Critical Fabulation to Refute the Notion of Queerness as un-African
… I (re)turn to the archive of indigenous African folktales as a means to challenge cultural myths of queer black (un)belonging. In my final thesis project, I take the Xhosa ntsomi (folktale) seriously as a mode of producing and transmitting cultural knowledge and appropriate its formal aesthetics …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying men with broken wrists: using intsomi as critical fabulation to refute the notion of queerness as un-African
… I (re)turn to the archive of indigenous African folktales as a means to challenge cultural myths of queer black (un)belonging. In my final thesis project, I take the Xhosa ntsomi (folktale) seriously as a mode of producing and transmitting cultural knowledge and appropriate its formal aesthetics …
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