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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"fable"”.
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William Faulkner as moralist : A Fable
… William Faulkner’s twentieth book of fiction, A Fable, was published. As might be expected by anyone knowing of Faulkner’s previous career and critical reception, the reviewers received it with widely divergent opinions. None seems to have found the book an unqualified success, the word “failure” …
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Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes
… that attending to Descartes' deployment of fable have on our understanding of the Cartesian method and its conception of the imagination. Descartes must take on the task of inaugurating a break from Scholastic metaphysics and physics. Because of the limitations he sees in Scholasticism’s …
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Understanding the Imaginary Audience and the Personal Fable in a Social Media Environment
… namely, Imaginary Audience and the Personal Fable. Developmental theory, however, cannot account for differences between Facebook users in older age ranges. Therefore, this study also examined the relationship between Facebook use, customization, and the trait variable of self-consciousness …
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Hubungan antara personal fable dengan kenakalan pada siswa SMA Negeri 1 Ngunut Tulungagung
… dua yaitua emaginary audience dan personal fable. Personal fable (PF) menghasilkan rasa kekebalan dan kekhususan yang umumnya terkait dengan tindakan beresiko pada remaja atau perilaku kenakalan pada remaja. Namun jarang sekali, penelitian di Indonesia yang membahas hubungan antara personal …
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Gideon's Response and Jotham's Fable: Two Anti-Monarchial Texts in a Pro-Monarchial Book?
… Gideon's response in Judg 8:23 and Jotham's fable in Judg 9:7-15 within the context of the book of Judges. The book of Judges has recently been seen as an apology for the Davidic monarchy. Studies that have advocated this perspective have focused on the prologue (Judg 1:1-3:6) and epilogue …
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From fable to court: tracing the curation of indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case
This dissertation presents a constructivist grounded theory study of curation and biopiracy of medicinal knowledge about Hoodia. Hoodia is a succulent cactus used by the San people for sustenance and medicinal purposes, and a victim of biopiracy as indigenous knowledge of its properties has been …
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Relationships among the personal fable, drug use and parental monitoring in adolescents and young adults
Relationships among the personal fable, drug use and parental monitoring in adolescents and young adults were tested in this study. Participants were 56 students, with 25 from a small, suburban area in southern Michigan, and 32 from West Virginia University (87.5 % female, 94.6% Caucasian). …
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The Rise and Fall of a Genre: Theories of the Fable in the Eighteenth Century
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Robert Henryson's development of the didactic role of the fable form in "The moral fables of Aesop"
… Henryson's collection of Aesopic and Reynardian Fables in the light of whatever instructive intent he may have had in undertaking the work. METHOD: The paper first examines both Henryson's personal history, and the social and legal background against which the fables were composed. There follows …
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The moral of the story Is... extract a generalizable lesson from a fable through emotional explanation and alignment with a past experience
… to generalize. Otherwise, we would need a fable for every unique circumstance. What computational process underlies our seemingly intuitive ability to extract a generalizable moral of a story? Fables play integral roles across cultures and societies. From a young age, children are read …
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A Comparison of Chaucer's Nonne Presstes Tale and Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale
"The fable in general, and the beast-fable in particular, are among the very oldest and most universal of the known forms of literature." A fresh and special development of it took place about the twelfth century, or earlier, somewhere in the central part of the northern coast district of the old …
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"Beyond Myth: Sexual Identity In ""light In August"" And Other Novels By William Faulkner (women, Narrative, Point Of View)"
… attitudes toward myth and legend suggested in A Fable to establish a scheme whereby female characters are either victims or exploiters of the archetypal feminine roles they are usually said to embody. When myths and legends are viewed, as A Fable suggests, as artificially imposed social …
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La fable comme dixième 'forme simple' : une étude comparative du "Crépuscule des loups" de Jean Dutourd avec les "Fables" correspondantes de Jean de La Fontaine
The famous fables of La Fontaine date back to the 17th century and have been studied in French schools in many countries throughout the world. They are also the literary source for the "Crepuscule des 10 ups", a collection of satires by Jean Dutourd. I analyzed 12 of these satires, along with the …
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Exploring Galaxy Clusters and Groups with Cosmological Simulations
… Acting on Baryons in Large-scale Environments}$ (FABLE) project, a new suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, groups and clusters designed to further our understanding of the formation and evolution of these fascinating objects. Firstly I perform a detailed comparison of the …
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The sacred way
… experiences which begin to write a narrative or fable for a building. In writing a fable rather than a theoretical essay something basic has been found; fables remain immutable long after theories have disappeared. The invention of these writings is central to the work and not merely literary …
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An anatomy of power: the early works of Bernard Mandeville
… early English works are examined in detail. His fables are seen to develop the first stages of a complex theory of imitation which is closely related to his medical ideas on digestion. Mandeville elaborated this theory in three major works - The Virgin Unmask'd (1709), A Treatise of the …
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Cape Mongo
Cape Mongo is an anti-fable to the mythologies of Cape Town’s consumer culture. This anti-fable takes shape through an amalgamation of sculptural, performative and video-montage processes, culminating in five films. Each of these films follows a different Mongo character as it journeys through …
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Aesop's fables in China: the transmission and transformation of the genre
Aesop’s fables, the first western literary works transmitted to China, opened up the field of translations in China in the nineteenth century. But there had been more than one transmission, and the process by which the Chinese absorbed Aesop was long and complicated. This dissertation explores when …
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature
… versions of the Legenda Aurea. The medieval fable collections, like the hagiographic anthologies, present a diverse image of Jews. While the Avianus and the Anonymous Neveleti collections contain a group of fables whose epimyths presented Jews as venal, they also contain a fable depicting a …
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Playing the Piper: A Narratological Interpretation of John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy (1982)
… the stage. Because of the significance of the fable to the piece, an analysis that addresses this specific aspect seems appropriate. Although other authors have addressed this topic in the music to some extent, there is room for a more thoroughly narrativized interpretation as a possible basis …
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