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Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde
Igbo oral funeral songs are dynamic and resilient oral forms. Applying the tenets of an infracultural model of ethnopoetics to study Igbo oral funeral songs collected during fieldwork, in this article, I examine the emerging trend in most Igbo ...
Onyebuchi Nwosu
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Ossian and James Macpherson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Discussion of the Ossianic poetry translated by James ...
Bold, Valentina
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[Review of] Joseph Bruchac, ed. Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
It is risky for an editor to compose a book of twenty-one interviews , each being centered in the same type of questions: What started you writing? Who were your models? What role does your tradition play in your work?
Herzog, Kristin
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Sources and development of the Kalevala as an example for the quantitative analysis of literary editions and sources

open access: yesDigital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
This paper describes ongoing work to quantitatively analyse the development of the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The analysis targets both the oral poetry sources used and the development of the final edition through multiple preparatory publications
Eetu Mäkelä   +2 more
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The Sabah Oral Literature Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
George N. Appell, M.B.A., A.M. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Australian National University) is a social anthropologist. He has done fieldwork, assisted by his wife Laura W.R.
Appell, George
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Embodied representation in oral-poetry improvisation

open access: yes, 2023
Oral poetry improvisation is a demanding cognitive task. It depends on multi-level processes of constraints including verbal rules, audience behavior, performance space setup and musicality. Improvisers follow strict restrictions of time reaction, theme scope, meter and rhyme norms, to control, monitor, and evaluate the results of their own ...
Perissinotto, Henrique Tavares Dias   +1 more
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Becoming curious about cats: A collaborative writing project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Students’ interests and achievement in writing are often debated and located in theoretical and pedagogical arguments. These issues can polarise understandings of effective teaching practice.
Amoore, Liz, Dix, Stephanie Margaret
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