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Λαϊκός πολιτισμός στην ψηφιακή εποχή: παραμύθια και ηλεκτρονικά παίγνια
Syn-Thèses, 2022 Fairy tales are timeless stories that introduce people to the literary, social and cultural heritage of diverse cultures and evolve to reflect contemporary social culture. Today, as the field of folklore studies expands and recognizes the contribution of
Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki
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Folk narrative of Mo Yan’s magical realism works - Taking Red Sorghum as an example [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesAs the first Chinese Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Mo Yan’s works provide a unique solution for the localization and internationalization of Chinese literature by integrating magical realism with Chinese folk narrative traditions. This article takes
Hu Kexin
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Remembering Teesta and the Water Dragon
HIMALAYA, 2022 In this illustrated folk narrative, a muun, a traditional female shaman of the Lepcha tribe, takes us on a journey of the tribe’s origins, it’s connection to the ancestors, mother earth, and the sacred waters through the muun’s vision of the water dragon.
Alyen Leeachum Foning
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2013 This article is focused on Kopitar’s work for oral tradition in the eras of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and on his contribution to South Slavic publications of folk narrative and linguistics, especially from the perspective of his cooperation with
Monika Kropej
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Symbolic Equivalences in Belief Tales about Female Nature Spirits
Traditiones, 2015 Ljudsko izročilo o vilah se pogosto prepleta z izročilom o divjih ženah, morskih deklicah, sibilah, rojenicah, čarovnicah in mnogih drugih ženskih bajeslovnih bitjih in demonih.
Monika Kropej Telban
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Attacking the public health crisis of hepatocellular carcinoma at its roots
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract As the third most common cause of cancer‐related death worldwide with significant mortality rates in the United States, hepatocellular carcinoma has strong association with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) with a growing at‐risk population from the rise in chronic liver disease from alcohol use and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Hannah M. Lee +3 more
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The Boundaries Between Folktale and Legend: «The Devil as Bridge Builder» in Catalan Tradition
Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2019 : The theme of the devil offering to build a bridge in one night in exchange for the soul of the victim has a considerable presence in folk narrative and is widespread internationally. An analysis of the 27 Catalan versions featuring «the devil as bridge
Carme Oriol
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Polifonia nelle antologie di W.B. Yeats: il dialogo complesso tra folklore e letteratura
Studi Irlandesi, 2014 Compiling and publishing a folk narrative anthology is anything but a trivial, neutral undertaking, especially if this is set in a period of great literary and cultural fervour as was the late XIX century in Ireland.
Vito Carrassi
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"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension.
Catherine Tosenberger
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Belief Narratives in Lithuanian Mushroom Picking Practices
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThis 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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