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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"tale-telling"”.
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Negotiating Gossip in the Spanish Realist Novel
… pueblo’). Chapter 3 analyses gossip as a form of tale-telling in Clarín’s La Regenta. I propose that the narrator is the personification of a nasty gossip, whose exposition, privately to readers, of the characters’ shortcomings and vices, duplicity, deception and hypocrisy, serves as a mimetic …
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The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning the Use and Adaptation of Folktale Characteristics in <i>Anime</i>
… thesis, I examine the relationship between folk tales and Japanese animation, or <em>anime</em>. In spite of the popular association between animation and adolescence, animated television series and films have a dynamic and compelling relationship with various age groups and nationalities. …
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The Transcendent Comedy of the "Canterbury Tales": Harmony in "Quyting," Harmony in Fragmentation
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer has been a controversial work for many years due in part to its tonal variety which leads to questions of genre and the work's purpose. Ambiguity regarding the work's hypothetical finished state, due to its actual fragmented condition, also contributes to …
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Medieval Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Teaching with and about Signs in Several Didactic Genres
… through the didactic insufficiency of its tale-telling enterprise, it ultimately affirms the limits of teaching using signs. My dissertation concludes by examining the persistence of many of these ideas in twenty-first-century pedagogy. Recent emphasis on equipping contemporary students …