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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Lore"”.
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Bantu medical folk-lore
… for investigation and record of the Medical Folk Lore of the Bantu Tribes; which was becoming more and more difficult of attainment as time went on; owing to the fact that the true unsophisticated native was rapidly becoming a thing of the past, or if one may put it so, becoming contaminated by …
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Proverb lore in Sidney.
The purpose of this study is to show the use of proverbs in the works of Sir Philip Sidney. The method has been to select from the author's works passages which in sentiment and style seemed to indicate the manner of the proverb. These, in turn, have been sought out in established collections of …
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Lyly's proverb lore.
… are found in Tilley's Elizabethan Proverb Lore, 212 additional proverbs in Tilley's Proverbs in England, and 6 additional proverbs in Stevenson's Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases. This study adds 69 new proverbs and proverbial phrases to the 861 previously authenticated, …
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Proverb lore in Don Quixote.
Considering the wealth of proverbs, proverbial expressions, and sententiae scattered throughout Don Quixote, it is apparent that Cervantes utilized the proverb to bequeath the Spanish Renaissance to the common people. Thus, this study discovers and authenticates the proverbial material used by …
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Proverb lore in Shakespeare's comedies.
Shakespeare's use of proverbs in his comedies follows rather closely conventional Elizabethan artistic devices. In his more mature comedies and in his later romances proverbs are woven into the organic structure. The proverbs have some rather definite patterns of usage: moralization, ornamentation, …
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Proverb lore in "The anatomy of melancholy".
The problem of this thesis has been to study Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy for the purpose of finding as many as possible of the proverbs he uses in that famous work. Before entering upon the task proper, Apperson's English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, and Smith's Oxford Dictionary of …
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Proverb lore in Stubbes's Anatomie of Abuses.
Recognizing the powerful influence of proverbial material, Philip Stubbes, in his Anatomie of Abuses, utilizes the proverb as a means of winning an audience. In his attack of abuses, as he saw them in both ecclesiastical and secular groups, he employs the proverb and the sententious remark in the …
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Bewitching The Stage: Elizabethan And Jacobean Witch-Lore And Witch-Hunt
<p>This project hypothesizes that the early modern stage witch's grotesque femininity and her masculine presumption of agency were the effective signifiers of the feminine covert, what men fantasized about the reproductive secrets of womanhood and their control over the feminine activities. My …
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Apocryphal lore and the life of Christ in Old English literature
Recent studies of the influence of apocryphal legends on medieval literature have revealed a surprising number of such traditions current in Anglo-Saxon England. This dissertation examines the sources, transmission, and reception of apocryphal texts and motifs associated with the life of Christ in …
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Beyond the Lore: A Research-Based Case for Asynchronous Online Writing Tutoring
… the qualitative research design created to explore the phenomenon of asynchronous online writing tutoring. Chapter three explores the research findings, arguing that the findings counter critiques of asynchronous online tutoring as ineffective and disengaging on the part of tutor and student …
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Vogelnest-Prädation in Waldrandgebieten in Lore Lindu National Park, Zentral Sulawesi, Indonesien
Die sulawesischen Regenwälder werden durch anthropogenen Einfluss in ihrer natürlichen Dynamik gestört. Waldstrukturen werden zerstört und durch Habitatfragmentierungen nachhaltig verändert. Es entstehen große Flächen von Waldrand-Lebensräumen. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde der Einfluss von …
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LORE Approach for Phased Array Measurements and Noise Control of Landing Gears
… Localization and Optimization of Array Results (LORE). Numerical simulations as well as sample experimental results are shown for the proposed post-processing.
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(Re)covering lost lore : folklore adaptations in Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor.
Though folklore is a knowledge-sharing, identity-forming practice that is utilized by a number of cultural groups, many scholars deride its emphasis on orality and storytelling. One reason may be that folklore practitioners are often members of marginalized cultures; for example both Zora Neale …
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Investigating the 'Legends of the Carrs': a study of the tales as printed in 'Folk-lore' in 1891
… of the Cars, a group of tales published in Folk-Lore in 1891, as having been collected in North Lincolnshire from local people. The stories, have been criticised for their relatively unique content and the collector, Marie Clothilde Balfour has been accused of creating the tales.<br/><br/>The …
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Folk computing : designing technology to support face-to-face community building
… Drawing on the communicative process of folklore, Folk Computing devices facilitate the creation, circulation and tracking of new, digital forms of lore. These digital folklore objects serve as social probes: they circulate among people with whom they resonate, thereby revealing the …
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A social history of black culture in colonial North Carolina
… at sea; the slave trade and its mythology; the lore and reality of the coastal environment; the art and craft of agricultural production; measured experience (time, space and distance); the law and lawlessness; the lore of race relations; health, spirituality and romance--reflects its effort to …
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"THE FORGERIES OF JEALOUSY": SHAKESPEARE'S CUCKOLDRY
… beast called a "cuckold." This complex, or lore of cuckoldry, was not merely a literary tradition but a popular conception which was beneficial to the medieval family structure with its wide kinship bonds and relatively cold husband-wife relationships. During Shakespeare's time, however, the …
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A lexicon for Camera Obscura
… for Camera Obscura is a survey of facts and lore about the author's use-of camera obscura as a metaphorical vehicle to comment about reality.
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Te mauri kōhatu : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy, The University of Massey, 2003
… and practices associated with the ancient lore of the Kōhatu. Anchoring the practice is the traditional notion that Te Mauri Kōhatu were a means to enhance health and wellbeing. This belief has existed for Māori since time immemorial. According to oral traditions the ancestor Tāne te …
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