A Comparative Exploration of Desirable Femininity in Folk Literature of Iran and Europe: A Case Study on the Transformation of Matrimony in Two Legends of Shāhmār and Beauty and the Beast [PDF]
Urban legends and fairytales use symbols and archetypes to bring forth, and describe, individual and collective actions and reactions in a society. Using an approach of both descriptive and comparative nature, the present article uses narrative analysis ...
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Reminiscences and a bait of the war years recorded in 1948 during a folklore ex-pedition which was organized by scholars of the Institute of Language, Literature and History Hamid Yarmi and Khalida Gatina, are offered to readers’ attention.
Ilsiyar G. Zakirova
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The Importance of the Place of Comparative Approach in the History of Persian Folk Literature and Criticism of Arabic Poetry and Prose Texts, the Heading of Folk Literature, Master's Degree in Persian Language and Literature [PDF]
1.IntroductionAfter the term "Folklore" was coined by Ambroise Morton in 1846 and the beginning of research on folk literature and culture, Studies related to this field had many developments and scientific advances. Research in the field of Persian folk
Mahsa Jalali +2 more
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Comparative-content study of the Buddha Myth with a Folk Narrative from the City of Fasa [PDF]
Introduction Anthropologists have long found traces of myth in folk tales and the roots of some of these stories and legends are known as myths. Myths are the beliefs of ancient humans on which human culture is based. Thus, general public literature is
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Work Songs and Melodies in the culture and Folk literature of Kermanshah [PDF]
One of the types of literature and folk music's is the songs and melodies that are composed for a certain profession or that spoken by the masses of people while performing activities and works.
Seyyed Arman Hosseini Abbariki +1 more
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Cautions on Folk Literature Works in the Literature of the period of Natural Struggle / Millî Mücadele Dönemi Edebiyatında Halk Edebiyatı Çalışmaları Üzerine Dikkatler [PDF]
In the period of the National Struggle that started with the 1918 Mondros Armistice Agreement and continued until the end of 1922, the Turkish nation dives into a life and death struggle.
Hacer Gülşen
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Folklore exists in all human groups, small and big. Since early modernity, scholars have provided various definitions of the phenomenon, but earlier texts may also reveal awareness and reflection on the specific character folklore. In this short article,
Galit Hasan-Rokem, Haim Weiss
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Persian prose in folk Written Fiction [PDF]
Folk literature has a special place in literary criticism and significant achievements in the field of linguistic, literary and content studies, including historical, cultural and sociological information.
Hasan Zolfaghari, Bahador Bagheri
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This paper focuses on the predominating east-west orientation of Iron Age graves (5th century BC to the 13th century AD) and the reasons that could have caused the custom.
Daiva Vaitkevičienė +1 more
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Folklore literature serves manifold purposes to the reader. Itacquaints the reader with multi-layered message expressed indirect or metaphoric manner Kashmir has at its credit, of havinginitiated a remarkable work in the field of folk literature. Inorder
Dr. Syed Ali Raza
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