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Morphology of folktales in Bushehr Province [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2018 The present study aims to analyze the morphology of some local stories of the city of Bushehr in Iran. These three stories, with some difference, correspond to the patterns of Vladimir Propp and are in harmony with the functions of his theory, though ...
Human Shakeri, Bahaeddin Eskandari
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Reflection on social aspects in Pahang folktales [PDF]
Folktales are a form of traditional literature that play an important role in conveying the thoughts and values of past societies to present-day communities. Therefore, this study aims to identify and analyze the social aspects in Pahang folktales.
Sujud, Arba’ie +2 more
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Religious and Moral Values in Madura Folktales [PDF]
, 2014 Madura has a lot of Folktales as the reflection of its values in its social life. As the cultural identity, most of Madura folktales are the mirror of social values and characteristics of Madura society.
Harits, I. W. (Imron) +1 more
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O обичном коњу у српским народним приповеткама
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2020 About the "Common" Horse in Serbian Folktales. The paper analyses the character of the common (nonmagic) horse in Serbian folktales from the following perspectives: (1) names and attributes, (2) function, (3) horse owners, (4) characteristics in animal ...
Voyvodich, Darya
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“Your Majesty, your son is unable to learn?”: A Study of the Notions of ‘Learning’ and ‘Teaching’ Inscribed in a Sample of Southern Folk Tales from Ancient Lanka [PDF]
OUSL Journal, 2019 Despite textual and other historical evidence pertaining to ‘learning’ and ‘teaching’ in ancient Lanka is sparse scholars have focused their attention on such notions.
Lal Medawattegedara
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Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Stories about a certain group can foster more positive attitudes toward that group, especially when they elicit identification with the story's characters/narrator. Drawing on narrative‐based interventions' literature and focusing on host society‐migrant relations, our study examined factors influencing the impact of story exposure on ...
Maria Ioannou, Andreas Michael
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Telling Stories of and with the Body: Artistic Tattoos Overwriting Breast Cancer Scars
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following recent advances in sociocultural linguistics on body semiosis, this paper analyses artistic tattoos over breast cancer scars as embodied communicative practices inscribing narratives of self. After sketching the ways in which sociolinguistics and the medical humanities conceptualise narratives of different kinds, we investigate the ...
Isabelle Buchstaller +1 more
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Ghanaian and African-American Trickster Folktales [PDF]
This unit will compare and contrast Ghanaian and African American Trickster Folktales. These tales provide an important connection to Ghanaian culture and history.
Freeman, Kim
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PHYSICAL AND VERBAL VIOLENCE IN INDONESIAN FOLKTALES RETOLD IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2016 Folktales as a cultural expression can contain all aspects of human life including violence. As Indonesia comprises so many diverse cultures, the context of violence, its degree and its nature, are also various.
Qanitah Masykuroh
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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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