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Pastoral Literature in Oral Kurdish Literature: A Case Study of Khavmirabad District of Mariwan

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2022
Folklore is an integral part of every nation’s literature, with a remarkable diversity in type and inclusion. A large part of this literature includes tales, legends, myths, songs, ballads, adages, riddles, and versified games transmitted orally from ...
Serwe Fatahi, Narges Jaberinasab, Ahmad Khatami   +2 more
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Charm and National Spirit of English Literature

, 2023
Familiarity with specific folk literature allows you to get a good idea of its national character, despite the fact that this idea is very difficult to formulate.
Alisherova Dilshoda Azizxon qizi, Sogukpinar Dilorom Alimovna   +1 more
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Turkish Translation of The Romance of Antarah

Şarkiyat Mecmuası, 2023
Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi was a slave knight and poet who lived decades before Islam, gained his freedom, and became famous for his bravery. Sirat Antar ibn Shaddad [The Romance of Antarah] describes his life and adventures and is one of the most ...
Abdulsattar Elhajhamed
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Folk and Blues Methods in American Literature and Criticism

, 2023
Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the fall of 2016. News of this drew predictable reactions from fans and naysayers who, each in their own way, either praised or lamented the judgment of the Nobel Committee’s decision to honor a ...
Black, Taylor
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Bronislava Kerbelytė: Innovator of Folktale Research

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
This article presents the scholarly legacy of Bronislava Kerbelytė (1935–2024), a pioneering Lithuanian folklorist whose lifelong work significantly advanced the study of narrative folklore. Kerbelytė developed a unique methodology of structural-semantic
Jūratė Šlekonytė
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Belief Narratives in Lithuanian Mushroom Picking Practices

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
This article focuses on certain belief narratives related to mushrooms and mushroom picking practices in Lithuania. It compares material from two time periods: the first from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, which is ...
Vita Džekčioriūtė
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Cherokee Stories of the Supernatural

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
Stories of personal experiences of supernatural events are a highly-valued form of verbal art for Cherokee speakers today. Both the people who tell them and those who listen regard such stories as entertaining and instructional.
Scancarelli, Janine
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An Ethnopoetic analysis of a Traditional Kashaya Gambling Narrative

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
In this paper I examine the text of a traditional Kashaya narrative which depicts a gambling game between coast and forest creatures. I propose an analysis of the meaning and organization of the text in terms of its cultural context as well as its poetic
Swift, Mary
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English Folk Singing and the Construction of Community [PDF]

, 2010
This thesis presents the ways contemporary English folk singers construct and enact community though their musical participation. To complement my existing knowledge from a 30 year long participation in folk singing, I use a combined approach of ...
Hield, Fay
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source