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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Folktales"”.
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Dogmeat: New American Folktales
Dogmeat: New American Folktales is a collection of creative non-fiction pieces and fictive short stories that focus on the social issues of perception, duality, and the human desire to feel belonging. Although each piece may stand alone as a separate work, the collection is meant to better function …
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Learning narrative structure from annotated folktales
… culturally-relevant plot patterns from sets of folktales. I demonstrate that ASM can learn a substantive portion of Vladimir Propp's in influential theory of the structure of folktale plots. The challenge was to take descriptions at one semantic level, namely, an event timeline as described in …
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Perception of Japanese Folktales by Readers from Different Cultural Backgrounds
This thesis investigates perceptions of Japanese folktales by readers from different cultural backgrounds. The study analyzes whether a reader’s cultural background affects how the Japanese folktales are perceived and understood, particularly focusing on where the comprehension difference appears …
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The influence of African folktales on Sylvia Path's 'Ariel voice'
… influence of Paul Radin’s collection of African folktales on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel poems. Elements from these tales have been identified by various critics in Plath’s “Poem for a Birthday” sequence which, according to Hughes, she wrote around the same time as she was reading the African tales. …
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An Analysis of East African Folktales for Children and Young Adults, 1970--2005
… affected the quality and meaning of the folktales. Finally, the major findings, implications, and conclusions were discussed.
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Investigating the teaching of isiZulu folktales in the Johannesburg East and South District secondary schools
This study examined the teaching of isiZulu folktales at some Johannesburg East and South district secondary schools. The purpose if this study was to determine the methods used by isiZulu teachers in their classrooms when they teach folktales. The research questions were concerned with the …
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A Trail of Stones and Breadcrumbs: Evaluating Folktales Published for Youth in the 20th Century, 1905--2000
… the evolving criteria for evaluating folktales published for youth in the twentieth century in relation to children's librarians' historical concerns and changing perceptions of cultural hegemony and authority. The synthesis of previously unrelated primary source materials and other …
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Analyse thematique de quelques contes Nkundo-Mongo
… of the Reverend Hulstaert. In this society, folktales have a major impact as they express some important rules of the tribe and help to convey their meaning. Also, they can transmit knowledge from one generation to another. The first chapter deals with the ethnology of the NKUNDO-MONGO …
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Their feet grimed from the hearth : visual motifs in Aschenputtel, Catskin and Cap o’ Rushes
… of visual motifs for the analysis of illustrated folktales. The validity of the concept was established two ways. First, a literature review established that, while no formal models of visual motif analysis were evident, discussion of illustrated folktales described illustrators' conventions and …
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Written narratives as an avenue for Swazi women to debate marginalization and inconsistencies of patriarchy
… the youth and instilling Swazi values through folktales. The women exclusively compose traditional oral narratives, and remain the key storytellers. Despite the pervasive patriarchal ideology that essentializes Swazi women as inferior, I argue that oral narratives (folktales) and modern written …
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The rhetoric of African fiction
… this study analyzes several West African folktales. While not denying the didactic function of these folktales, this study concentrates on the aesthetic concerns of the story-tellers and the significant narrative techniques they employ in their art. Having discussed the outstanding …
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Re-living Nyanja storytelling in the envronmental education of selected children of Lusaka, Zambia
… disappearing indigenous languages are stories or folktales of such languages which also require to be salvaged through education. This study took up this challenge and, through the agency of environmental education within the context of the Lusaka Museum. The general aim was achieved through the …
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Re-living Nyanja storytelling in the envronmental education of selected children of Lusaka, Zambia
… disappearing indigenous languages are stories or folktales of such languages which also require to be salvaged through education. This study took up this challenge and, through the agency of environmental education within the context of the Lusaka Museum. The general aim was achieved through the …
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Le décepter dans la littérature orale de l'océan Indien : étude comparée
… the African ones. The African and Indian Ocean folktales share a common function: they serve to Instruct and to Impart knoYJiedge. Thus the fifth chapter examines the lessons conveyed by the Indian ocean Trickster-tales and discovers that they can be of a practical, moral or linguistic nature. …
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The Burning of Restoran and Other Stories
… influenced by the format of fairy tales and folktales in Eastern Europe.</p>
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Wattpad as an Online Medium for Contemporary Folklore
… and the archive. Wattpad users are creating new folktales that are nuanced with elements from Wattpad’s archive, which characterizes contemporary online folklore in a way that has not been fully explored. This project serves to identify the past and present discourses that inform such a …
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"This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition
… framework of Western tradition: myths and folktales, religious, philosophical, and scientific works, and film.
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A descriptive analysis of indigenous Xitsonga music dance compound: A musicological approach
… protests, by the fireside interspersed with folktales, love songs and so on. All these songs are immersed in culture-bound indigenous music. The indigenous music and dance of the Vatsonga play a vital role, not only in their lives but also for others who enjoy indigenous Xitsonga music and …
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