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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Praise Poetry"”.
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A comparative literary analysis of cattle praise poetry of the Tonga people of Bweengwa and Chivuna
… at comparative literary analysis of the cattle praise poetry between the people of Bweengwa and those of Chivuna. It utilizes four literary theories to arrive at findings and these include: social constructionism, ethnopoetics, literary onomastics and the main approach being formalism. The study …
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A comparative literary analysis of cattle praise poetry of the Tonga people of Bweengwa and Chivuna
… at comparative literary analysis of the cattle praise poetry between the people of Bweengwa and those of Chivuna. It utilizes four literary theories to arrive at findings and these include: social constructionism, ethnopoetics, literary onomastics and the main approach being formalism. The study …
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Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman
… reciprocal exchange of state-directed giving and praise poetry responses. The circuit of exchange catalyzes the social production of political legitimacy and ensures continued generous distribution by mythopoetically presenting such cyclicity as resulting from elite and non-elite mutuality. This …
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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
… reexamines the rise of monothematic love poetry in the pre- and early Islamic period, and offers a new perspective on the relationship between poetry and power, between early Islamic rituals (such as the performance of the Hajj) and rightful claims to rulership, and between cognate motifs …
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The social and literary aspects of Zulu personal names
… use of kinship terms, clan names, and personal praises (and for the latter, a fifteen page analysis of the content and style of originally-collected praises); c) An analysis of an original collection of dog- and ox-names, with reference to comparative material. Thirdly, The Literary Aspect of …
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Language attitudes, genre and culture capital : a case study of EAL students' access to a foundation course in the Humanities at UCT
… a foundation course. The use of the genre of the praise poem in the curriculum is used as a case study to address how the cultural capital that this group of students bring with them can be validated, the main aim being to facilitate access to the curriculum. In exploring students' attitudes to …
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The poetry of David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi
… a Xhosa writer, performs and writes traditional praise poetry (izibongo) and modern poems (isihobe) and can, therefore, be regarded as a bard because he also performs his poetry. One can safely place him in the interphase as he combines performance and writing. The influence of oral poems and …
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The philosophical, behavioural and academic merit of uMaskandi music
… may not appear to be artistically captivating, praiseworthy, and linguistically significant. It is but only on closer scrutiny that the aesthetic worth of the music can be realized. Even then, without a considerable research into a sizeable amount of the people's arts in relation to their life …