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Fables of undiscovered cities
"Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life; new civilizations... To boldly go where no one has gone before!" -- Jean-Luc Picard, Captain, Starship Enterprise; NCC-1701D. Humans have …
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A study of LaFontaine and his fables
Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-09T23:47:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5958290_opt.pdf: 69569472 bytes, checksum: 87e90d2904a094ded5231000ec71b28f (MD5) license.txt: 4183 bytes, checksum: 1dcc2037833d76bede73d5717587543b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1896
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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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Coping with stress through bibliotherapy : the effects of reading Zhuang Zi’s fables for Taiwan college students
… stress reduction has been found in Zhuang Zi’s fables. This philosophy may have current relevance for our hectic and materialistic modern life. This thesis presents an experiment in bibliotherapy carried out with Taiwanese college students reading a popularized version of the fables. For the …
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The Fables of Superintendent Don Paolo: Object Lessons on Community Upheaval, Community Efficacy, Heritage Knowledge, and Education
… in this study is discovery of narratives and fables of past and present successes. The research examines how the community views itself, its role in the educational process, the way education and knowledge are used, and how education is viewed within the community and in the family unit in an …
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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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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
… descriptions and visual imagery. Lost Cause fables embedded in the explicit curricula persuaded generations of students that slavery was an economic inevitability legally and politically sanctioned in the British colonies of North America and the United States of America. This content …
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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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Figures du Monarque et imaginaire tyrannique chez La Fontaine
… du fondement philosophique et politique des Fables par les diverses connotations de la définition du pouvoir chez le fabuliste, en analysant les procédés adoptés pour dénoncer les dérives des instances du pouvoir dans la France de Louis XIV. L’analyse textuelle des fables dévoile une figure …
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Ainoi, Logoi, Muthoi. Fables in Contexts in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Literature. With a Study of the Theory and Terminology of the Genre
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_252845846.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Doctoral thesis recital (double bass)
Fables of Faubus / Charles Mingus -- Oh Lord, please don't let them drop that atomic bomb on me! / Charles Mingus -- One / James Hatfield-Lars Ulrich -- Alabama / John Coltrane -- What's going on? / Marvin Gaye.
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Perpetual Movement: Brief Forms in Latin America
… to the fictions that tell and retell old fables. Most importantly I examine the movement between these forms which are at once anachronic, synchronic and perpetual. In the first chapter, False Case: The Anecdote” I examine the desire that Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges and Ricardo …
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Secure the Shadow
… which draws heavily on the conventions of fables, parables and fairy tales to consider modern themes, desires and cruelties. The collection is linked by a meta-fictional fascination with the act of storytelling -- the liminal psychological space between the real and unreal, fantasy and …
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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 extract a generalizable moral of a story? Fables play integral roles across cultures and societies. From a young age, children are read fables to instill moral values. If we are build an artificial human intelligence system, we must first answer this question. In this thesis, I take a step …
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Louisa May Alcott and the Female Fairy Tale (Form, Massachusetts)
… Louisa May Alcott wrote her first book, Flower Fables, at the age of sixteen, she had already discovered the form that would shape many of her fictions: the female-centered fairy tale. Her version of it, appearing repeatedly in her popular children's fictions, features a heroine, frequently …
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Chinese instruments in a western contemporary idiom selected works of Chen Yi
… Ancient Dances, Ning, Song in Winter, Chinese Fables and Ancient Beauty, which all contain Chinese instruments. Technical issues of combining Chinese and Western instruments are discussed, as well as Chinese philosophy and the arts that inspire the pieces. In addition, examples are made to show …
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Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes
… is to begin his texts by claiming them to be fables. "Fable‟ can be understood to refer to those moments in which Descartes explicitly uses this term in reference to his texts (The World and the Discourse on Method). However, I contend that, as a form of defending and explaining the Cartesian …
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