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Olson, Ted. "Virginia Folklore." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://www.amzn.com/1107057779.
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Book Summary: A History of Virginia Literature chronicles a story that has been more than four hundred years in the making. It looks at the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the twenty-first century. Divided into four main parts, this History examines the literature of colonial Virginia, Jeffersonian Virginia, Civil War Virginia, and modern Virginia. Individual chapters survey such literary genres as diaries, histories, letters, novels, poetry, political writings, promotion literature, science fiction, and slave narratives. Leading scholars also devote special attention to several major authors, including William Byrd of Westover, Thomas Jefferson, Ellen Glasgow, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Styron. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of American literature and of American studies more generally.
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Puglia, David. "The Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: Past and Present." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/205.
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This work focuses on Western Kentucky University’s Folklife Archives located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Western Kentucky University has a rich history of folklore scholarship, dating back to at least the early 20th century and the work of Gordon Wilson. Folklore archives across the nation have long been repositories for the fieldwork of folklorists and a place to look to supplement future studies both of folklorists and other disciplines. Western Kentucky’s Folklife Archives are no exception, housing thousands of impressive pieces donated from many generations of folklore scholars. Yet very little has been written about the Western Kentucky Folklife Archives. Through oral history and primary documentation, I have attempted to capture this history from the earliest days of Gordon Wilson, D.K. Wilgus, and Lynwood Montell to the present day. vi
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Truscott, Clayton. "Local folklore : a novel." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12297.
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Espinosa, Aurelio M. "California Spanish Folklore Riddles." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624786.
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Garcia, Juan R., and Ignacio Garcia. "Readings in Southwestern Folklore." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624796.
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Hong, Sogu. "Mykola Kostomarov and Ukrainian folklore." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0003/MQ28895.pdf.
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Dillion, Jacqueline M. "Thomas Hardy : folklore and resistance." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5156.
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This thesis examines a range of folkloric customs and beliefs that play a pivotal role in Hardy's fiction: overlooking, sympathetic magic, hag-riding, tree ‘totemism', skimmington-riding, bonfire nights, mumming, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom'. For each of these, it offers a background survey bringing the customs or beliefs forward in time into Victorian Dorset, and examines how they have been represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters – in the context of Hardy's repeated insistence on the authenticity of his own accounts of these traditions. In doing so, the thesis both explores Hardy's work, primarily his prose fiction, as a means to understand the ‘folklore' (a word coined in the decade of Hardy's birth) of southwestern England, and at the same time reconsiders the novels in the light of the folkloric elements. The thesis also argues that Hardy treats folklore in dynamic ways that open up more questions and tensions than many of his contemporaries chose to recognise. Hardy portrays folkloric custom and belief from the perspective of one who has lived and moved within ‘folk culture', but he also distances himself (or his narrators) by commenting on folkloric material in contemporary anthropological terms that serve to destabilize a fixed (author)itative narrative voice. The interplay between the two perspectives, coupled with Hardy's commitment to showing folk culture in flux, demonstrates his continuing resistance to what he viewed as the reductive ways of thinking about folklore adopted by prominent folklorists (and personal friends) such as Edward Clodd, Andrew Lang, and James Frazer. This thesis seeks to explore these tensions and to show how Hardy's efforts to resist what he described as ‘excellently neat' answers open up wider cultural questions about the nature of belief, progress, and change.
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Domaradzka-Barbier, Aurélia. "Folklore musical polonais : La Silésie." Lyon 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997LYO20095.
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Zone de contact entre polonais, tcheques et allemands, peuples qui ont fait son histoire, la silesie a egalement recu d'autres influences (tatares, hongroises, juives, tsiganes et valaques). On y distingue une zone de plaine, la vallee de l'oder et une zone montagneuse, les sudetes et le beskide silesien (carpates). Les specificites de son folklore musical (syncretisme, polymorphisme du vers, heterogeneite du langage musical) et le contexte methodologique (cadre general et cadre analytique du discours verbal et musical des chants et de leurs variantes) ont defini le champ de l'etude. Les traditions silesiennes s'expriment de multiples manieres: habitat, artisanat, coutumes familiales, notamment liees au mariage, danses, costumes et fabrication d'instruments de musique traditionnels. Le parler silesien contient des archaismes inexistants dans le reste du pays. Le vers populaire chante silesien est polymorphe et evolue differemment dans le cadre des chants courts du sud et des chants longs du nord. L'analyse des melodies, notamment de celles du beskide, a necessite de forger de nouveaux outils et de definir de nouveaux concepts: conception ethnopsychique du rythme, cellule montagnarde originelle, notions de seconde "tres ancienne" (valaque), d'echelles autogenes, "deformee" et "transformee", explication de certains degres mobiles, formules statiques et dynamiques et leurs points d'appui, "chromatisme instrumental aleatoire", collage de formules heterogenes. L'analyse des paroles permet de comprendre que ces chants sont pour la plupart "des paroles de femmes" ayant pour role operatoire de faciliter l'accession de la jeune fille au statut de femme mariee. La societe silesienne y apparait encore fortement marquee de pratiques ancestrales. L'analyse des chants permet aussi de definir certaines regles de la transmission oraleSilesia has traditionally been the common ground of communication between poles, czechs and germans but il has also been open to other influences (tatares, hungarians, jews, gypsies and valacs). It is geographically composed of a plain, the oder valley and mountainous regions, the sudeten mountains and the silesian beskide (carpathia). This study devotes itself both to the types of silesian musical folklore (syncretism, polymorphism of verse, the mixture of musical codes) as well as to the methodological context (general considerations and an analysis of the text and music of the songs as well as their variants). Silesian traditions are expressed in different ways : dwellings, craftwork, family customs particularly related to weddings, dances, dress and the making of traditional musical instruments. The silesian dialect contains archaisms long forgotten in the rest of the country. Silesian sung verse is polymorphic and varies from the short southern songs to the longer songs of the north. In analysing the melodies, particularly those of the beskides, new tools and concepts were necessary e. G. The ethnopsychological concept of rythm, the primary mountain musical cell, the ideas of the "very early" second interval (valac) autogenic modes, the concept of "deformed" and "transformed" the explanation of certain mobile degrees, of static and dynamic models and of their resting points, of "aleatorical instrumental chromaticism" and finally the collage of different types of models. Through text analysis it could be established that these songs are mostly "words of women" which refer to the transition from girl to married woman and reveal ancestral customs still prevalent in silesian society. The analysis of the songs has also uncovered certain rules concerning oral tradition
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Aboudib, Robert. "Sabāh et le folklore libanais." Lyon 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988LYO3A000.
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Bell, Sita. "Anti-Semitic Folklore Motif Index." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/299.
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Anti-Semitism, or Jew hatred, much of which is expressed and communicated through folklore, has a long history and continues unabated today. Incendiary opinions, deadly misconceptions, and insidious accusations have plagued Jews throughout history. Anti-Semitic expressions and incidents are scattered throughout countless texts, but no single comprehensive reference work that compiles all forms of anti-Semitic folklore motifs exists. This thesis attempts to fill that gap by supplying an index of anti-Semitic motifs.
To establish a baseline of already catalogued anti-Semitic motifs, all six volumes of Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folklore-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends were scanned and any relevant motifs listed were archived in a card index. Approximately 250 more previously unidentified motifs were documented from historical materials, published books and articles, artifacts, and personal communications. All motifs used in this study were developed from English sources, or from English speakers borrowing from other languages and cultures.
The procedure to categorize the folklore motifs is based on a numbering system developed by folklorist Stith Thompson in 1955. Using Thompson's classifications of motifs as a base, the approximately 250 newly identified anti-Semitic folklore motifs I discovered have been integrated with Thompson motifs. Anti-Semitic materials covered begin with the Middle Ages and continue to the present day.
Although not comprehensive, this motif index incorporates examples of anti-Semitic folklore from all genres, making motifs and examples easily accessible for anyone who wishes to analyze historical and current anti-Semitism. Indexing anti-Semitic folklore in a single reference work based on a universal folklore indexing system creates a body of information to be used as a resource tool for education and research of anti-Semitism. Furthermore, the index can easily be expanded as more material comes to light.
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Latella, Daniele <1991>. "'Ndrangheta. Religione, folklore e famiglia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12238.
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Il presente lavoro, frutto di una ricerca sul campo svolta nella provincia di Reggio Calabria, si concentra sul fenomeno mafioso calabrese meglio noto come ’ndrangheta.
Tale studio si pone l’obiettivo di individuare alcuni aspetti fondamentali dell’organizzazione, quali religione, folklore e famiglia, in modo da poter favorire una conoscenza più ampia del fenomeno, oltrepassando così la visione giuridica, attraverso la quale è stato costantemente e profondamente analizzato.
Partendo da un’indispensabile ricostruzione storica del fenomeno e da un’analisi della sua struttura organizzativa, si passerà al corpo vero e proprio della ricerca etnografica. Data l’evidente impossibilità di entrare in possesso di materiali riservati alla polizia e di infiltrarsi in un clan della ’ndrangheta, si è dato spazio a più attori, i quali hanno avuto e hanno a che fare con membri della mafia calabrese e che svolgono ruoli differenti all’interno della società reggina. Nonostante l’eterogeneità delle voci in campo, il focus delle interviste si è concentrato esclusivamente sugli argomenti caratterizzanti questo studio.
Infine, per una maggiore comprensione del fenomeno – e degli aspetti sopracitati – si è dato spazio alle analogie e alle differenze che la ’ndrangheta mostra in relazione alle altre organizzazioni mafiose presenti sul territorio italiano, quali Camorra e Cosa Nostra, e si è avanzato un parallelismo con l’organizzazione criminale giapponese chiamata Yakuza.
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Valošinienė, Irmanta. "Rūtos semantika lietuvių folklore ir poezijoje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2006. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060628_095419-22143.
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Rue is popular in all the nationalities, but its mean different. In the Lithuanian culture this flower means a lot, it is important in every life, creation and in hundreds of years it couldn’t be changed by another objects. In this work is the material analysed about the rue’s semantic in the folk creation, traditions and in the individual poetry and its contacts to the culture of many nations. The aim of this work is to analise one of the most important objects (the rue) in our creation, customs, spoken creation, its way to the individual creation, the meaning change in the poetry and its semantic meaning.
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Grooms, John C. "Giants in Welsh folklore and tradition." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339431.
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Stankutė, Gintarė. "Tradicija ir moderni visuomenė: folklorinis judėjimas Kauno mokyklose XXI a." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100621_151747-04064.
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Folkloras – daugialypis, įvairiai suvokiamas ir interpretuojamas reiškinys. Modernioje visuomenėje jis vertinamas prieštaringai: iš vienos pusės suvokiama, jo kaip priemonės išreiškiančios ir palaikančios etninę tapatybę vertė, tačiau tuo pat metu jaučiama nuostata, kad tai šiuolaikinio žmogaus poreikių netenkinantis ir dėl to jam asmeniškai vertę prarandantis reiškinys. Folkloras gali būti aktualus šiuolaikiniam žmogui, jei neapsiribojama scenai skirtais pasirodymais, o folklorinėmis priemonėmis, bei jam artimomis veiklomis kuriama bendruomenė, ugdoma asmenybė. Taip sudaromos natūraliam folkloro gyvavimui artimos sąlygos, dėl kurių jis atgauna ne tik etninės reprezentacijos, bet ir kitas aktualias šių laikų visuomenei funkcijas, padeda spręsti socialines problemas.
Gaivinant folklorą aktuali tampa jo sklaidos problema, kuri analizuojama šiame darbe. Sprendžiant išsikeltą užduotį remiamasi trijų sėkmingai veikiančių Kauno vaikų folkloro kolektyvų pavyzdžiais. Surinkus informaciją apie Kauno vaikų folklorinius kolektyvus, jų vykdomą veiklą, vadovų darbo metodus, palyginus vadovų veiklos principus ir metodikas, atskleidžiamos priežastys sąlygojusios kolektyvų sėkmę. Taip pat, išryškinamos problemos su kuriomis susiduria folkloro kolektyvų vadovai, bei folkloras, kaip veiklos forma, įvardijami galimi šių problemų sprendimo būdai. Plačiau supažindinama su viena iš labiausiai pasiteisinusių folkloro sklaidos priemonių – liaudies šokių vakaronėmis, bei jų teikiamomis... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Folklore is a multiple phenomenon, which can be perceived and interpreted differently. Its appreciation by modern society is controversial. On the one hand, it is seen as the value of certain medium which expresses and furthers the maintenance of ethical identification, on the other hand, it is seen as a phenomenon which does not meet the needs of humans living in the modern world and thus, becoming unvaluable. Folklore may be important to people of the modern world if it is seen as the way of educating personality or community with the help of folklore elements, but not as performance on a stage. In such a way environment for natural existence of folklore is created, which brings back to life the functions of folklore not only such as ethical representation but also some other, which are important to modern society. Also, it helps to solve social problems. One of the most important problems when refreshing folklore becomes its popularization which is analyzed in the paper. The aim of the paper was reached by taking examples of three Kaunas children‘s folklore groups. The reasons of their success were revealed with the help of the collected information about the folklore groups, their activity, working methods of the teachers and comparison of the teachers‘ activity principles and methodology. The problems that the teachers of the folklore groups and folklore itself meet are highlighted as well as the possible solutions to the problems are given. Also, a broader... [to full text]
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Van, Ness Arthur Gordon IV. "Haunts of the Hill: Western Kentucky University Ghostlore." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1178.
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Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, like all colleges and universities, has some interesting history. In this case, for my thesis project, I looked at specific tales regarding several buildings on campus that one hears upon arrival to campus. The buildings I included are Potter Hall, Barnes Campbell, Rodes- Harlin, Van Meter, Florence Schneider, McLean Hall, and Pearce-Ford Tower. I explored the details of the traditional oral narratives and compared those details from personal or close to personal experience. Next, I analyzed the details that have stayed the same over time or changed.
To accomplish my project I went to a few of the Welcome Week campus tours, conducted audio and video interviews, archival research, as well as video recording the annual ghost walk in October given by the Communications department. The project comprises mainly of a documentary film with a complimentary written component.
What I found was that the stories show some correlation between the traditional oral narratives and the first hand experiences such as names, times, experiences, and location of the events. In conclusion, I have found that in oral tales, certain details stay the same, change, and also become transformed over time. Western, like all colleges, has events that touch people’s lives and because of that impact, as well as the uniqueness of these stories, it means that certain stories will continue to be told. For further research, I would include the rest of the stories that one hears at Western including Phi Delta Theta, Delta Tau Delta, Lambda Chi Alphas, Kappa Sigma Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Ivan Wilson as well as to continue doing further research on these oral narratives. I also would like to look at other colleges, larger and smaller, in order to get a larger sample of oral narratives at different locations over time.
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McKinney, Sarah Katherine. "Irreducibly Ever After: Metafantasy as Postmodern Folklore." NCSU, 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-02282007-125257/.
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Literary scholarship has largely ignored the genre of medieval fantasy, dismissing its library as derivative, formulaic and repetitive. In this thesis, I argue that medieval fantasy is more productively framed as myth and folklore, and that what some call ?repetition? would be better named ?iteration.? By functioning via the folkloric process of incremental repetition, various fantastic tale-types adapt to individual novels? purposes in the way that the ancient oral tale once adapted to audience. The advent of the literary fairy tale, which has culminated in the work of Walt Disney, has halted the natural storytelling process and ?frozen? many traditional tales in place. Medieval fantasy actively fights such narrative distillation?which inevitably leads to dogmatic didacticism?by rejecting master narrative and regenerating the active, meaning-making relationship between author and reader. A particular type of fantasy, called ?metafantasy,? makes calling attention to the process of story its primary aim. In so doing, metafantasy fights the tendency to Disneyfication and the appropriation of myth by dominant ideologies. I explicate the folkloric processes of three metafantasy novels here: The Last Unicorn, by Peter Beagle; The Princess Bride, by William Goldman; and Phillip Pullman?s His Dark Materials series.
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Chu, T. (Tin). "Folklore Town:renovation typology for old urban districts." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201805312049.
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Abstract. “The future of architecture is culture.” — Philip Johnson.
With the rise of globalization from the 20th century, the lacking of cultural identity in metropolis throughout the world has become an urgent issue, thus, it’s resulting the loss of tradition and local cultures in the not distant future.
Hong Kong, former British colony, is one of the highly globalized metropolis with hundreds of homogeneous skyscraper in order to operate and maintain its status of an international financial center. Traditions, local culture and identity of this place are losing bit to bit, yet this result is turning itself to a “just another” globalized city in the world.
Every cities, no mater it is globalized, have their abandoned old urban district with full of local culture and tradition. However, most of them are suffered under disrepair or forgotten.
Responding to the uncertain future of tradition and culture of Hong Kong, this thesis takes a theoretical path in creating an alternative typology for renovation of metropolis’ old urban district. The proposal introduces a compromise between the desire for renovation and the maintenance of its own local culture, thus to enhance its cultural identity in the global environment. While Hong Kong is taken as the targeted site.
Two major parts are contained in this thesis, which the first part focuses on the research related to the impact of globalization on cultural identities, and the condition of Hong Kong’s old districts. The second part of the thesis proposes an alternative typology of renovating the old districts.
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Perron, Mathieu. "Jacques Labrecque : trajectoire d'un "diffuseur du folklore"." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28604.
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Ikeda, Hiroko. "W. B. Yeats : Irish folklore and nationalism." Kyoto University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/144971.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(人間・環境学)
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京都大学大学院人間･環境学研究科文化･地域環境学専攻
(主査)教授 鈴木 雅之, 教授 丸橋 良雄, 助教授 水野 眞理, 助教授 桂山 康司
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Allred, David A. "Representing Culture: Reflexivity and Mormon Folklore Scholarship." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2000. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,3899.
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Njopa-Kaba, Grace A. "African folklore and oral narrative in Jamaica /." Yaoundé : University of Yaoundé, Department of African literature, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37691371t.
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Clinton, Esther Ann. "Tales Online lessons for the field of folklore /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3204291.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2005.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0288. Adviser: Hasan El-Shamy. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."
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Golightly, Karen B. "Who put the folk in folklore? : nineteenth-century collecting of Irish folklore from T. Crofton Croker to Lady Augusta Gregory /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456285971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Mohammad, Harunthmarin Nur Qistin. "Culture, Tradition and the Series of Bruneian Folklore." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365267.
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This project is the first scholarly study on The Series of Bruneian Folklore and its significance as a legacy for the culture of Brunei. It is also the first English translation of selected tales in the Series. The broad trajectory of this thesis examines the survival of Brunei’s powerful oral narrative heritage which existed for 500 years as a vital part of traditional Bruneian society, and which still survives in the form of published children’s literature. Amidst modern culture, however, it is considered an outdated object of the past; this explains its deteriorating presence as a formative cultural force in the Brunei of today.
This dissertation transforms this perception of the Series and recognizes it as the embodiment of an important cultural and historical heritage. The main theoretical foundation is Homi Bhabha’s, The Location of Culture (1994) and the main literary framework is the Gothic mode: together they both serve as an overarching framework for analysis in each chapter. International literary perspectives are employed to achieve a cross-cultural examination of the Series, addressing this published expression of Brunei’s complex narrative heritage within the context of recent literary discourse. As a product of hybrid cultural influences and historical practices, published in a contemporary time frame, the Series has been approached with reference to Western literary concepts and modes of critique, including Postcolonialism, Feminism and the Gothic, addressing its importance as the reflection of a unique narrative heritage.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social science
Arts, Education and Law
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Dixon, Sean. "Folklore and Mythology in Neil Gaiman's American Gods." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22735.
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This thesis provides a critical analysis of the use of folklore and mythology that exists in Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel, American Gods. I focus on the ways in which American Gods is situated within an intertextual corpus of mythological and mythopoeic writing. In particular, this study analyses Gaiman’s writing by drawing upon Mircea Eliade’s ideas about mythology and Northrop Frye’s archetypal criticism to discuss the emergence of secular myth through fantasy fiction.
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Carlucci, Nicole <1992>. "Tennyo e Iruikonintan: L'evoluzione del folklore nella letteratura." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9996.
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Osservando il panorama letterario contemporaneo si nota sempre di più la presenza di libri e testi che ripropongono in modo alternativo motivi e figure appartenenti all’ambito del folklore. Anche il Giappone non è immune a questa tendenza, la quale dilaga in svariati campi, dai manga, agli anime, ai drama. Ma qual è il motivo, il fattore scatenante che spinge gli autori e gli scrittori ad attingere al mondo dei miti e dei racconti e a rielaborarlo e rivisitarlo in chiavi sempre nuove?
In Giappone, la tradizione folklorica è molto ricca e preponderante nella vita di ogni giorno. Infatti, è una tradizione viva, che rispecchia diversi aspetti della società e che si evolve con essa. Proprio per questo motivo, è importante capire le differenze fra i vari generi ed accettarne la naturale contaminazione fra di essi. La tradizione folklorica giapponese è composta da mukashibanashi (昔話), shinwa (神話) e densetsu (伝説). I mukashibanashi (termine che letteralmente significa “racconti del passato”) sono racconti popolari tramandati oralmente di generazione in generazione e sono creazioni della fantasia, quindi finzione. Il termine shinwa si riferisce ai miti e alla cosmogonia, anch’essi di tradizione orale, che spiegano le origini della vita e, di conseguenza, questa parola designa racconti che erano considerati come verità. I densetsu, invece, sono le leggende tramandate oralmente che riguardano episodi o personaggi storici e che sono legate al luogo dell’avvenimento. Questi sono solo alcuni dei generi della tradizione orale, i cui confini peraltro nella pratica tendono ad essere sfumati.
Molto diffuso, dunque, nella tradizione folklorica giapponese è il filone degli iruikonintan e del motivo della tennyo, i quali si riscontrano sotto forma di shinwa, mukashibanashi e densetsu, poi recuperati e rielaborati in libri, manga e anime.
Il termine iruikonintan (異類婚姻譚) è composto dalla parola irui (異類), che indica “individui appartenenti a specie differenti”, da konin (婚姻), che vuol dire “matrimonio” o “connubio”, e da tan (譚), il quale significa “storia”; dunque, complessivamente, gli iruikonintan sono storie di matrimoni fra individui appartenenti a specie diverse. Per determinare più precisamente quali sono le specie cui appartengono suddetti individui, bisogna tener presente che gli iruikonintan si suddividono in due grandi branche: gli iruinyōbō (異類女房) e gli iruimuko (異類聟). I primi raccontano storie di connubio fra un marito umano e una moglie non umana, la cui “vera forma” (正体 shōtai) può essere un serpente, una rana, un pesce, una gru, una volpe, una tennyo ecc., mentre nei secondi è la moglie a essere umana e l’uomo a non esserlo (di solito è un serpente, una scimmia, una rana, un cane, un cavallo, un oni o un kodama). Considerando la definizione letterale del termine iruikonintan, sembrerebbe naturale, quasi logico, comprendere in questo filone anche la figura della tennyo (天女, che letteralmente significa “fanciulla del cielo”, anche comunemente tradotta come “vergine celeste”). In realtà, ogni studioso ha dato una sua particolare interpretazione di questo motivo e quasi tutti lo hanno designato come qualcosa di altro rispetto agli iruikonintan, posizione che personalmente non condivido.
Di conseguenza, in questo elaborato mi propongo di analizzare le forme più conosciute di iruikonintan e confrontarle con alcune versioni del racconto della tennyo, tracciando le origini, le somiglianze e le differenze di questi motivi e la funzione da essi svolta nel corso dei secoli. Inoltre, dal momento che tradizione orale e tradizione scritta sono state studiate isolatamente l’una dall’altra, questa tesi si propone di mettere in luce il modo in cui si sono influenzate a vicenda nel corso dei secoli fino a giungere alla contaminazione dei generi attuale.
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Wastiau, Boris. "Mahamba : the transforming arts of spirit possession among the Luvale-speaking people of the upper Zambezi." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53659967.html.
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Albrecht, Jeremy L. "Livy, Folklore, and Magic: A Reappraisal of Rome's Foundational Mythology." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586372697489211.
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Milligan, Linda Jean. "The UFO debate : a study of a contemporary legend /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1389348381.
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Lines, Linda. "Folklore-in-education : a teaching tool in the classroom /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2002. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,166268.
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Laferté, Gilles. "Folklore savant et folklore commercial : reconstruire la qualité des vins de Bourgogne : une sociologie économique de l'image régionale dans l'entre-deux-guerres." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0035.
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Harris, Jason Marc. "Folklore, fantasy, and fiction : the function of supernatural folklore in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British prose narratives of the literary fantastic /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9456.
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Hults, David Stilwill, and mikewood@deakin edu. "A bibliographic survey of folklore in Australia 1790-1990." Deakin University, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050804.104032.
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The study of folklore within Australia to date has been consistently hampered by the lack of any systematic and comprehensive subject bibliography available to researchers interested in the area. The present work provides a conceptual framework for folklore generally, and Australian folklore, specifically. The framework utilises contemporary scholarship and government policy formulations in the subject area. Based upon that framework, a comprehensive bibliographic listing of all folklore material published within Australia between the years 1790 and 1990 is provided comprising 1661 works. An account of the bibliographic problems pertinent to the subject area is provided together with an explanation of the causes of those problems. An historical summary and interpretation of the bibliography is presented in conjunction with an appraisal of the state of folklore research in Australia at the present time.
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Upchurch, David A. "Irish Celtic folklore in The picture of Dorian Gray." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720138.
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Although critics have studied Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for nearly one hundred years, no one has examined the author's Irish Celtic heritage in relation to such unanswered questions as the source for the supernatural power that grants Dorian's wish to remain young and creates the central conflict, the purpose of the eleventh chapter, or the apparent "overwriting" or "purple patches" of prose.As a result, the novel has remained elusive, yet fascinating, to both critics and readers. This study asserts that the problem with the traditional approaches critics have taken to solve these questions is that Dorian_ Gray does not entirely belong to mainstream British literary tradition. It also belongs in part to Irish Celtic literature.Consequently, the answers to these unresolved "mysteries" become part of a natural, even inevitable culmination of Irish folklore placed in a Victorian London setting. questions lie in Wilde's Irish background. By looking at the mythology and folklore of Wilde's native Ireland, the “mysteries” become part of a natural, even inevitable culmination of Irish folklore placed in a Victorian London setting.This study's approach to Dorian Gray combines both historical and textual study and builds upon the already substantial number of source studies and biographies available. Moreover, this study examines the almost entirely unexplored background of Wilde's Irish past in the novel which relates to Irish literature. In addition to these components, this paper also offers explanations for the source of the supernatural elements, the problems within the eleventh chapter, and the strategy of the overall structure. Finally this study examines the satirical elements that have their origin in Irish folklore. In many ways, this analysis unifies the other, often conflicting, approaches by explaining these previously misunderstood elements.Department of English
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Yang, Su Jin. "Adapting Korean Cinderella Folklore as Fairy Tales for Children." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3622966.
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Cinderella stories are one of the most popular fairy tales in the world. At the same time, they are most stigmatized by people for describing a weak and passive female protagonist. To discover possible explanations for this continuing popularity of Cinderella stories, I chose to analyze the Kongjwi Patjwi story, one of the Cinderella tales in Korea. The Kongjwi Patjwi story is one of the well-known folktales in Korea that has been adapted for children since the beginning of the 20th century. Since the Kongjwi Patjwi story is not familiar to many western people, I first analyze two of the folklore versions of Kongjwi Patjwi to prove that this story is also one kind of Cinderella tale. Both of them have the "innocent, persecuted heroine" theme, which is one of the most distinctive features of Cinderella tales. In one version, the plot follows almost exactly the same trajectory as European Cinderella tales in that it has the lost shoe motif and marriage with the Prince. The biggest difference between the Korean Cinderella and other Cinderella stories is that there is another plot in the Korean Cinderella story as the passive protagonist matures and becomes an independent woman. In some of the adapted fairy tale versions for children, this plot does not appear and the Korean Cinderella becomes another passive girl who is rescued by her Prince Charming. One of the reasons for this change is that the mothers, the buyers of the children's books, want the "Prince Charming's rescue" plot because they find that it is hard to become an independent woman in Korean society. To accommodate the consumers' wants and needs, publishers intentionally change the plots with passive protagonists. The folklore version of Kongjwi Patjwi actually suggests a more independent and mature female character which would be a good role model for many young boys and girls.
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Tabook, Salim Bakhit Salim. "Tribal practices, and folklore of Dhofar : Sultanate of Oman." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361526.
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Amar, Shruti. "Folklore, myth, and Indian fiction in English, 1930-1961." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/folklore-myth-and-indian-fiction-in-english-19301961(db116252-ebc3-44c9-b02d-c742a0f98c66).html.
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The thesis examines the complex relationship between folklore, myth, and Indian writing in English, with reference to a number of novels and short stories written between 1930 and 1961. I look in detail at the works of five writers: Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, Sudhindra Nath Ghose, R.K. Narayan, and Balachandra Rajan. With the rise of the novel in India during the late nineteenth century, vernacular writers started to experiment with the form and style of fiction. Writing in various regional languages, they frequently drew on oral tales and devised new modes of narration. Such experimentation, however, was not confined to vernacular fiction. In this thesis, I argue that novelists writing in English such as Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan and several others similarly developed a distinct style of writing, as influenced by myth, folklore and folk performances. Like the bhasa writers, they too began to experiment with the form of the novel and short-stories by incorporating tales, songs, and proverbs, and their performative dimensions. Folklore centred on women became crucial to this experimentation. It is this engagement with the myths, folk tales, songs and proverbs that this thesis investigates. Along with the novels of Raja Rao, Sudhindra Nath Ghose, R. K. Narayan and Balachandra Rajan, I analyse the short stories of R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand in order to understand the complex inter-textual links between written and oral traditions. There are two dimensions to my inquiry. First, through a series of close readings, I investigate how - both in terms of theme and structure - the use of myths, folk tales, songs and proverbs help to evoke, dramatise or even ironise complex situations within the text. Second, I pay special attention to the elements of performance in some of these novels. The sustained engagement of these authors with woman-centric folklore remains a strong sub-theme in the thesis; such engagement also encapsulates the various literary debates on the status of woman in South Asia and provides a glimpse into their everyday lives. In each of my chapters, I investigate the method employed to create a new form of fiction and also how such inclusion constructs the characters as well as the relationship between them within the complex strand of caste and gender hierarchies. Though the thesis sets out to broadly discover the intricate yet inevitable relation between the folk and the written, I have kept the time period between 1930 and 1961. The period is in itself relevant in modern South Asian history as it records the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial era and so my focus remains on the texts produced during this phase. The recurrent nationalist discourse that finally culminated in the independence, as well as the partition in 1947, allowed the authors to set their fiction within the backdrop of a complex historical and political situation that offered as well as required various literary responses. The writers I argue particularly borrowed from the native mythology and folklore to respond to this change. The thesis thus intends to provide a broader perspective on the various ways in which pre-colonial and postcolonial narrative forms intermingled with each other to transform the colonial legacy.
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Scholma-Mason, Nela. "Archaeology and folklore : the Norse in Orkney's prehistoric landscape." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18121/.
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This research focuses on the representation of mounds and standing stones in Orkney's folklore, and how this can inform us about potential Norse perceptions of sites and the landscape. The Orcadian folkloric record is examined under consideration of wider parallels, whilst case studies are considered individually as well as within their wider landscape setting.
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Castleman, Samantha G. "Inexhaustible Magic: Folklore as World Building in Harry Potter." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1973.
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The practice of secondary world building, the creation of a fantasy realm with its own unique laws and systems has long been a tradition within the genre of fantasy writing. In many notable cases, such as those publications by J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft, folklore exhibited in the world of the reader has been specifically used not only to construct these fantasy realms, but to add depth and believability to their presentation. The universe of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series demonstrates this same practice of folklore-as-world-building, yet her construction does much more than just create a fantasy realm. By using both folklore which predates her writing as well as created elements which while unique to her secondary world specifically reflect the world of the reader, Rowling is able to create a fantasy realm which is highly political, complex and multivocal, yet still accessible to young readers through its familiarity. Specifically through her use of cryptids, belief representation, and folk narratives both invented and recontextualized, Rowling is able to juxtapose her fantasy universe to the real-world of the reader, in effect inventing a believable secondary world but also demonstrating to young readers the ways in which her writing should be interpreted.
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Music, Luka. "Multi-Party Quantum Cryptography : from Folklore to Real-World." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021SORUS412.
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La cryptographie quantique a bénéficié des nombreuses avancées de la cryptographie et théorie des réseaux classiques. Cependant, elle n’en est qu’à ses balbutiement en ce qui concerne son application en condition réelles et approfondir la théorie sous-jacente est un prérequis crucial à l’exploitation de l’intégralité de ses possibilités. Pour cela, il faut tout d’abord formaliser rigoureusement les propriétés de sécurité quantiques des techniques importées de la cryptographie classique, pour l’instant souvent utilisées sans justification. Ensuite, les progrès récents des technologies quantiques tendent à pointer vers un modèle d’accès type client-serveur avec un client faiblement quantique. Dans ce contexte, les protocoles quantiques se doivent d’être les plus frugaux possibles en termes de ressources (mémoire et opération). Enfin, implémenter des protocoles sur des architectures concrètes nécessite de les adapter finement aux machines utilisées afin d’améliorer encore leur optimisation. Cette thèse contribue à ces trois aspects en : (i) proposant une définition du Quantum Cut-and-Choose, technique qui permet de garantir la préparation honnête d’un message quantique ; (ii) présentant un cadre de sécurité plus réaliste contre les attaques par superposition, qui garantit la sécurité de protocoles classiques exécutés sur une machine quantique ; (iii) construisant un protocole efficace de délégation de calcul multipartite quantique, qui permet à des clients de déléguer un calcul privé à un serveur ; (iv) démontrant qu’il est possible de vérifier l’exactitude de calculs quantiques délégués sans aucun impact en terme ressources côté client ou serveurQuantum cryptography builds upon decades of advances both in classical cryptography and networks. However, contrary to its classical counterparts, it is still in its infancy applicability-wise, even in the scenario where powerful quantum computers are readily available, and more theoretical work is required before it can provide concrete benefits. The first goal is to formalise in rigorous quantum security frameworks the properties of various techniques that have been transposed, often without proper justification, from the classical world.Then, the recent developments in quantum technologies suggest a mostly cloud-based future availability of quantum devices. Therefore, quantum computation and communication cost of protocol participants must be lowered before being useful.Finally, in most situations, additional steps need to be taken to tailor protocols to the specifications of devices. This allows for optimisations both in terms of quantum memory and operation requirements.This thesis contributes to these three aspects by: (i) giving the first general security definition of the Quantum Cut-and-Choose, a technique for proving the correctness of a quantum message; (ii) presenting a more realistic framework of security against superposition attacks, where classical protocols run on inherently quantum devices; (iii) constructing an efficient delegated multi-party quantum computation protocol, allowing clients to delegate securely to a quantum server a private computation; (iv) building a method for verifying the honesty of a quantum server performing computations on behalf of a client with no operation or memory overhead compared to the unprotected computation
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Ingemark, Camilla Asplund. "The genre of trolls the case of a Finland-Swedish folk belief tradition /." Åbo : Åbo Akademi University Press, 2004. http://books.google.com/books?id=SjSCAAAAMAAJ.
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Anderson, Kirsten. "National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany." TopSCHOLAR®, 1999. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/740.
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In this thesis, I examine the relationship between folklore and nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. More specifically, I focus on how the Nazis used folklore and the work of folklorists in their propaganda. The first chapter documents the development of nationalism and the creation of the discipline of folklore based on the theories of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) and Wilhelm Riehl (1823-1897). Herder wanted the Germans to rediscover their national heritage through folklore materials, and Riehl argued that folklore and folklorists should serve the Fatherland. In the 1930s, the Nazi Party used the discipline of folklore as a tool for their cultural policies and ideological education because the discipline had such close associations with nationalism and anti-Semitism. In Chapter Two, I trace the development of the National Socialist ideology from the conservative revolution and the Volkisch movements of the nineteenth century. National Socialism was akin to a religion and in Chapter Three, I document the careers of two of its "priests": Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher of the NSDAP, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS. Both men created folklore organizations and employed folklorists to support the Nazi ideology. In Chapter Four, I analyze the festival theory of two folklorists employed by Rosenberg and then examine the Nazi festival calendar, which was based on both traditional holidays and the new celebrations of the Nazi Party. The annual Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day), held in 1923, 1926, 1927, 1929, and then from 1933 to 1938, was the most important holiday on the Nazi calendar and I analyze it as a folk festival in Chapter Five, using the theories of Victor Turner, Alessandro Falassi, and Barbara Myerhoff. In addition, I use the theories of John Dorst concerning ethnography in a postmodern society and performance folkloristics to analyze the verbal art and performances at the rallies. Finally, I conclude with an overview of how German Volkskunde has changed after the Nazi era and discuss how the issue of folklore and ideology in Germany relates to the American discipline of folklore with a brief look at American festivals like the White Top Music Festival in Virginia (1931-1939) and the current Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C. Three themes inform this analysis: 1.) Both folklore studies and National Socialism have a common background in the issues of the nineteenth century: nationalism, irrationalism, and the notion that Germany was a nation with a special destiny; 2.) The Nazi Party was unique in comparison with other political organizations because it made such conscious use of folklore materials. The Nazis' active use of folklore in all of its forms attracted ordinary Germans who had suffered great losses in the First World War, felt threatened by the radical modernity of the Weimar Republic, suffered through the Depression, and wanted to feel good about their nation again; and 3.) By examining specific issues like folklore and festivals, we can gain a deeper understanding of why Germans accepted Adolf Hitler and National Socialism.
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Lee, Intack. "Selected myths of China and Korea a comparative study analysis /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1993. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9334922.
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Augustus, Brent C. "Man and myth studying the power myth and folklore has over man /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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Bukowick, Karen Elizabeth. "Truth and Symbolism: Mythological Perspectives of the Wolf and Crow." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/489.
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Thesis advisor: Susan MichalczykThis thesis explores crow and wolf symbolism within the mythology of Western Tradition, focusing on the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, Native American folklore, Shakespeare, and Aesop's fables. Much of the animal imagery in literature is negative and does not truthfully represent the animals symbolized. This thesis investigates why these negative associations are formed, how they relate to the biological lives of wolves and crows, and explores their ambiguity in relation to the positive symbolism that exists. Negative symbols acquire strength as cultures grow further away from the land they live on and focus on industry and humanity instead of the world around them. The behavior of both wolves and crows is secretive, causing people to create stories to explain their actions. Furthermore, humans use these animals as a "shadow" to themselves, bestowing characteristics upon them which are found in human nature but are generally considered unacceptable
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Sullivan, Sarah Joyce. "Grimm’s reformatory: case no. 442, code name: Libra." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3908.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of English
Kimball Smith
This thesis stands as the first part of the earliest novel in a series that will appeal to the mass public, utilizing well-celebrated fairy tale elements and introducing old elements of courtly romance from the medieval literature period. In doing so, I have worked to create a fantastical world with obvious parallels to historical and present notions of society, culture, and human interactions, but with a new and interesting twist on concepts readers are familiar with. The universe I’ve created is able to be introduced in this first installment and gradually broadened as the series progresses to prevent exhaustive detail which may distract the reader. Also, it is restricted by specific laws in terms of magical abilities and power in order to give the reader boundaries to react within and prevent the unhelpful limitlessness that causes a loss of interest. The main character, Emily Fenhorn, is a thirteen-year-old girl who is fairly average in her adolescence. She’s neither the weakest nor the strongest character, leaving room for both growth and human frailty. The conflicts that affect Emily in this first installment center primarily on problems that teenagers deal with on a regular basis such as the need for acceptance, making new friends, making and dealing with enemies, popularity, and academic concerns. Unlike other thirteen-year-olds, Emily is plagued by a horrifying ‘gift’ that she doesn’t know how to control; a gift which ends up earning her place at Grimm’s Reformatory.
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Schwartz-Kates, Deborah. "The Gauchesco tradition as a source of national identity in Argentine art music (ca.1890-1955) /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40036343n.
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Nhlekisana, Rosaleen Oabona Brankie. "Wedding songs in Botswana a reflection of the dynamics of marriage, gender relations and familial conflicts /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3167806.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore, 2005.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1454. Adviser: Beverly J. Stoeltje. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 15, 2006)."
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Warrick, Steven. ""Does Your Faith in God and Country Need a Boost?" Reflections of Idealism and Identity and the Art of Bill John Roth." TopSCHOLAR®, 1997. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/359.
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The life and art of Bill John Roth offer a paradox to the study of folklore and folk art. The personal and public nature of Bill's art is exemplified through his mural Geographic Hieroglyphics In God's Own Handwriting. On the surface the art and artist are seemingly detached from the community, but upon closer investigation this is not the case. I have explored the notion of "outsider" art, the problems associated with artistic interpretation and the difficulties of labelling artists according to academic and elitist standards. Thus the contextual background of the artist and community are important aspects of this study and of any study concerned with the nature and process of creativity. The final product is not the only standard by which folk art should be judged. The ideas and thought processes behind the objects are what really contribute to the nature of the finished product. The purpose of this thesis is to use Bill's art as an example of the complexity involving the conflict between individual creativity and community tradition. Is this solely the artwork of an individual artist or work that represents involvement in the community? Through observation, analysis, tape-recorded interviews and public performances of identity, I have concluded that Bill's art is a product of community involvement. While his work challenges the traditional notions of folk art, it is contextually folkloric in nature.
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Kitta, Andrea. "Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religious Life." TopSCHOLAR®, 2003. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/606.
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Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religions Life is a careful consideration of the narratives of cancer survivors, specifically those in Catholic religious life. Through the use of interviews and secondary sources, the author addresses such issues as relationship with God, stigmatization, community life, Parson's Sick Role, and labeling theories. This thesis also considers the perceived audience during the performance of narratives, specifically, if cancer survivors in religious life perceive God to be a part of their audience and looks at the structure of narratives concerning cancer survivorship.