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Charity, good deeds and the poor in Serbian epic poetry [PDF]
Balcanica, 2005 The analysis of relation between the poor and the concept of charity in Serbian epic poetry is initiated as part of the research project "Ethnic and social stratification of the Balkans", which includes study of social margins and subcultures in oral ...
Petrović Sonja
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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BRAZIL AND THE RIVER PLATE: CRITICAL INTERSECTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE EPIC IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 2020 In the 19th century, Brazil and the River Plate countries take a leading position regarding the epic genre: the controversy over The Confederação dos Tamoios (1856) was accompanied by the publication of an enormous number of epic poems, exceeded only by ...
Dirk Brunke
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Criticón, 2012 The article focuses on the influence of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso in the Spanish epic of the Golden Age through the poems devoted to the legend of Bernardo del Carpio.
Lara Vilà
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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The Rhythm of the Gods’ Voice. The Suggestion of Divine Presence through Prosody
Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2020 In this article, I draw attention to the gods’ pickiness in the audible flow of their utterances, a prosodic characteristic of speech that evokes the presence of the divine.
Ronald Blankenborg
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[Review of] Mazisi Kunene. The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain [PDF]
, 1984 Mazisi Kunene is admirably qualified to transmit both the traditional and his original Zulu poetry to an anglophone audience. He is a scholar and a performer of Zulu oral folk poetry.
Bruner, Charlotte H.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Tragedijos pėdsakai Moscho kūryboje | Traces of the Influence of Attic Tragedy on the Poetry of Moschus [PDF]
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2004 The article deals with the role of Classical Greek tragedies in the Hellenistic period and their influence on the poetry of that period. The importance of Hellenistic drama was much less than that of Classical drama. Old tragedies were performed, studied
Audronė Kudulytė-Kairienė
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