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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Verbal arts"”.
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
The ‘mechanical arts’ or artes mechanicae were first named as a part of Philosophy in Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Didascalicon (1120s). They were identified as seven arts (fabric making, armament, commerce, agriculture, hunting, medicine, and theatrics), and positioned as a parallel to the seven liberal …
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Formulaic discourse patterning in mōteatea
… of various kinds, is a common feature of verbal arts produced in many different languages. It is particularly associated with pre-literate cultures and tends to be gradually replaced by more individualistic verbal art forms when societies become literate. There are very few publications in …
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Building realities : Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa oral literature and its role in Napo Kichwa social world-making
This dissertation is based upon four narratives and one song from interviews with a group of Napo Kichwa women. Kichwa society functions on three intersecting levels: between humans and other humans, between humans and non-human animals, and between humans and non-human spirit beings. Each of these …