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Expression of Human Status Through Animalistic Metaphor

open access: yesФилологический класс, 2022
The article deals with expression of the status of a person through comparison with animals. Despite the fact that this topic has already been touched upon in one way or another by researchers, not all issues have been resolved yet. The study presents an
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Schoolbooks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
According to UNESCO estimates, there are approximately one billion people in the world who can neither read nor write. One sixth of the world population has never seen a schoolbook.
Baldzuhn, Michael
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Velázquez y la invención: mimesis y anagnórisis entre Italia y España (c. 1618-1630)

open access: yesHart, 2018
This paper aims to examine some examples of Diego Velázquez’s oeuvre that could be interpreted as genre violations. From a metapictorial point of view, his Sevillian bodegones will be elucidated neither as “pictures of everyday life” nor as polysemic ...
Juan Luis González García
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The main sacrifice: Sacrificing own children in Slavic folk literature [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004
This paper discusses the work of M. Dragomanov "Slavs fables about sacrificing own children." These fables are divided into three groups whereas the second group is discussed here.
Đapović Lasta S.
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On Three Aesop Fables in Colonial Mexico

open access: yesHipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro, 2022
This essay seeks to reflect on Aesop’s fables translated into Nahuatl during colonial Mexico. To this purpose, and following an approach grounded on cultural translation, I will identify the main contents of three selected fables in order to underline ...
Alejandro Viveros Espinosa
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The use of fables in the development of students' comprehension of social relationships and motives of human behaviour [PDF]

open access: yesNastava i Vaspitanje, 2017
In this paper the importance of the analytic-synthetic study of fables is examined from a theoretical and empirical aspect, with the aim of ascertaining whether a functionally selected methodological approach to the interpretation of fables in teaching ...
Čutović Mirjana M.
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The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
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Run away illness where a rooster does not sing: No-life and nothingness in our folk fables [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008
In fables, verbal messages meant for curing, illness is never sent into underworld, nor is it wished for its death. After the analysis, the author concludes the reason for this attitude is in the understanding of the underworld: according to this view ...
Đapović Lasta
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Ignacy Krasicki po arabsku

open access: yesMiędzy Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2015
Ignacy Krasicki in Arabic. A critical analysis of K. Załuski’s translation In 1860, count Karol Załuski (1834 1919) published a booklet containing his Arabic translations of four fables by the leading Polish Enlightment Age poet Ignacy Krasicki, as ...
Paweł Siwiec
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Subject plot symbolism in allegories (on the material of mediaeval Armenian fables) [PDF]

open access: yesЖанры речи, 2023
The paper deals with edifications expressed in Armenian fables of the XII–XIII centuries. These narratives describe common situations of overcoming serious difficulties, interrelations between authorities and people, and paradoxical ...
Karasik, Vladimir Ilyich
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