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A Question of Life and Death: The Aesopic Animal Fables on Why Not to Kill [PDF]

, 2017
This article deals with Greek animal fables, traditionally attributed to a former slave, Aesop, who lived during the sixth century BCE. As a genre, the Aesopic fables, or the Aesopica, has had a significant impact on the Western fable tradition and ...
T. Korhonen
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Expression of Human Status Through Animalistic Metaphor

Филологический 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]

, 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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The main sacrifice: Sacrificing own children in Slavic folk literature [PDF]

Glasnik 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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Velázquez y la invención: mimesis y anagnórisis entre Italia y España (c. 1618-1630)

Hart, 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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On Three Aesop Fables in Colonial Mexico

Hipogrifo: 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]

Nastava 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]

, 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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Fables of the Past

, 2020
Prehistoric landscape reconstructions are still considered an unsolved methodological issue in archaeological research, and this includes the perception and transformation of an individual landscape in relation to situational and local ecosystem ...
Michael Kempf
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Review of Molavi’s fables in Divan-I Shams [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2014
Narrative allegory is a story with two meanings: a preliminary meaning and secondary meaning that lies beneath the surface layer. Fable is a type of allegory, and consists of a short story which is intended to convey a moral lesson.
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