Dissertations / Theses: 'Folk literature'

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Bellew, Sheilah Marie. "Integrating folk literature into a meaning center curriculum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/709.

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Brocken, Michael. "The British folk revival : an analysis of folk/popular dichotomies from a popular music studies perspective." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266140.

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Bailey, Ebony Lynne. "Re(Making) the Folk: The Folk in Early African American Folklore Studies and Postbellum, Pre-Harlem Literature." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594919307993345.

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Strain, Catherine Benson. "Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachian Fiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/720.

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The region of Southern Appalachia, long known for its colorful storytellers, is also rich in folk medical lore and practice. In their Appalachian novels, Lucy Furman, Emma Bell Miles, Mildred Haun, Catherine Marshall, Harriette Arnow, Lee Smith, and Charles Frazier, feature folk medicine prominently in their narratives. The novels studied, set against the backdrop of the rise of official medicine, are divided into three major time periods that correspond to important chapters in the history of American medicine: the 1890s through the 1930s; the 1940s through the 1960s; and the 1970s through the present. The study of folk medicine, a sub-specialty of the academic discipline of folklore, gains significance with the current rise in distrust of official medicine and a return to medical folkways of our past. The authors studied here have performed an ethnological role in collecting and preserving with great care and authenticity many of the Appalachian regionÆs folk medical beliefs and practices.

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Millington, Peter Thomas. "The origins and development of English folk plays." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13/.

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This thesis concerns those English folk plays whose plots are centred on the quack doctor character. Earlier researchers proposed three possible origins for these plays: a non-specific mystery play from the time of the crusades, some pre- Christian fertility ritual, and primitive shamanism. All three proposals were based on over-general comparisons, and relied on the key assumption that a continuous history can be traced back from before modern plays to the relevant era. However, in contrast with other customs, no evidence can be found for these plays before the 18th century, despite diligent searching. These theories are therefore disproved. Instead, it is proposed that the plays were attached in the early to mid 18th century to existing house-visiting customs. These were probably the source of the non-representational costumes that are sometimes worn. There is also evidence for the influence of the conventions of the English Harlequinade. The provenance of the scripts is unknown, but similarities between them suggest they ultimately derived from a single proto-text. A full-text database of 181 texts and fragments was built for investigation using cluster analysis, distribution mapping and other computerised techniques, some of which are novel. The cluster analysis has generated a new classification for the play texts that both confirms and extends the established typology. Comparison of the attributes of the clusters, aided by distribution mapping, has resulted in a putative genealogy for the plays that is presented for discussion. Trellis graphing has revealed a core of common lines that can be assembled into a viable script. This represents a reconstructed proto-text, although it requires consolidation with further evidence. Bibliometric analysis suggests that more archival research is needed in the century ending about 1750, which is the key period for the genesis of the plays.

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Hemmig, Christopher T. "Peripheral Agents: Marginality in Arab Folk Narrative." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245358153.

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Furey, Simon. "Harmony in discord : an analysis of Catalan folk song." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/962/.

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Traditional folk song is a reflection of the society that creates it. In the Catalan case it reflects not only Catalan society but also those of Valencia and the Balearic Islands, for whom forms of the Catalan language are native. This present thesis investigates the corpus of folk song in Catalan and puts it into the context of the nation states that encompass it, i.e. France and Spain. The great era of European folk-song collection was between the mid-19th century and the First World War. The early part of this period coincides with the Catalan Renaixença: the revival of interest in Catalan language and culture. However, in the Catalan case, extensive song collection continued through the cultural periods of Modernisme and Noucentisme and up until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Much was documented in the publications of the Obra del cançoner popular de Catalunya, but even that great unfinished work has had no critical appraisal to date. A second theme of this thesis is therefore to begin such an appraisal, and put the work into the context of all of the major Catalan folk-song collections, which contain thousands of songs collected in both France and Spain. All the songs considered here are to be found in books, journals and recordings published between 1852 and 2001. The subject matter and song types are described and categorised, ranging from ballads and love songs to drinking songs and Christmas carols. The songs of the Països Catalans are compared with the music and songs of other traditions to identify influences and possible sources of specific material. With reference to work currently (c. 2001) taking place in Catalonia, the focus of this thesis ranges from the descriptive to the interpretative and analytical. The analyses consider words and music taken together, with performance too where possible. Because the song corpus is large but not well known, this thesis may be used as a high-level reference source to find the material. A computer-based indexing system (a database) has been developed as part of this project with the ambition of eventually providing a single, unified and more detailed reference source for all of the songs, centred on the field work of the still incomplete Obra del cançoner popular de Catalunya. The thesis is accompanied by a CD-ROM (PC only) containing the database as it currently stands. An additional database is also provided on the CD-ROM: a much-needed index of the contents of the Romancerillo Catalán of Manuel Milà i Fontanals. The databases are tools for continuing research and indicators of significant directions that future work might follow.

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何倬榮 and Cheuk-wing Ho. "Engendering children: from folk tales to fairy tales." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227363.

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譚達先 and Tat-sin Tam. "Folk literature and the Zaju (Northern drama) of the YuanDynasty, 1279-1368." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31232395.

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Mitchell, Scott Alan. ""You have no right to do such a thing" : an insider study of entitlement of spirit child narratives in Mormon communities /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1426089.

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Chi, Alison Tiensung. "Adaptation and choreography of a Chinese folktale, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Njejimana, Grégoire. "Discourse deixis in Kirundi folktales /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1989. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10906800.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1989.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Clifford A. Hill. Dissertation Committee: Jo Anne Kleifgen. Bibliography: leaves 125-128.

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Leach, Lindsay A. "Performing Hugo Kauder: An Expansion of Flute Literature." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337085079.

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Christiansen, Anna P. "The Underground Gang: Cyclist Group Identity as Expressed Throughout Folk Art, Folk Events, Narratives, and Community Spaces." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4467.

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This thesis is a study of the “underground” cycling community in Ogden, Utah. Countercultural cycling micro-communities exist across the United States, if not the world, but have not yet been thoroughly studied by folklorists. This research establishes a foundational understanding of the nature of underground cycling culture, particularly in relation to identity. Using folkloric definitions of identity and subculture as my foundation, I examine four different facets of cyclist activities: folk art, folk events, narratives, and the community’s use of space. These four facets provide a variety of lenses through with to examine actualized, expressive cyclist behavior. Each facet also illustrates the different levels (personal, community, and global) at which identity is performed. The most personal performances of cyclist identity are through the folk art of modified bicycles. Modifications tend to reflect the personality of the cyclist, and consequently a bicycle comes to hold much symbolism for the cyclist. The communitylevel studies consisted of examining group events where I observed how the group interacted with itself. The performance and participation in activities are what constitutes an actual cycling community, rather than a series of individual cyclists. The examination of narratives moves outward to contextualize the cycling microcommunity within the larger Ogden community. This chapter explores the role of conflict, illustrates how cyclists think of themselves, and illustrates how cyclists define themselves in opposition to motorists. The community spaces examination looks at the use of physical space versus digital space. These spaces illustrate how the community behaves amongst itself versus how the community behaves amongst the larger, online, Utah cycling community. The physical space reflected the creativity and utilitarian needs of the group. The restrictive digital spaces manage to be expressive through images and language. Internal group conflict occurs more often online, however, due to infractions of implicit group etiquette, possibly as a symptom of a less personal form of interaction. The marginalized, cyclist identity seemed to hold the greatest rewards at the more intimate, personal levels. Moving outward towards broader community-level contests, cyclist identity seems to become a source of conflict.

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Powell-Pickering, Jessica L. "Warriors, lovers, mothers : women's physical powers in the Irish sagas /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131436233.pdf.

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Mora, Pablo. "An encounter between Andean folktale values and biblical values." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Ott, Claudia. "Metamorphosen des Epos Sīrat al-Muğāhidīn (Sīrat al-Amīra D̲āt al-Himma) zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit /." Leiden, The Netherlands : Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=FrPZAAAAMAAJ.

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McDonald, Nicola. "Diverse folk diversely they seyde : a study of the figure of Medea in medieval literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296064.

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Williams, Shawn Lamar. ""The people's champion" : folk heroism and the oral artistry of Muhammad Ali." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2000. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/460.

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Long after a career that was as much marred by criticism as marked by accomplishment, Muhammad Au receives considerable public acclaim for his athletic accomplishments and his humanitarianism. However, no scholarly attention has been given to this man as a literary force who, through the power of his word, impacted the consciousness of this nation and world. This dissertation examines Ali as an artist operating within the context of African and African American oral literary traditions and will explore the impact of his oratory on the sociopolitical consciousness of this country. The analysis of the oral literature of Muhammad Ali, which consists of his lectures, interviews, and poetry, will involve an assessment of those aspects that make it a manifestation of the verbal culture of Africa and African America. Moreover, the study illustrates the degree to which the rhetoric and verse reflects both African-American national consciousness (i.e., black nationalism) and African folkloric tradition. In his creation of himself Ali utilizes traditional African and African American mythoforms like the trickster, the Badman, and the culture hero. In this respect, Muhammad Ali is the only athlete to emerge as an Afrocentric cultural hero. This subject encompasses matter of literature, African American studies, speech communications, and popular culture.

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Heredos, Rosemary M. "Medieval Minstrels and Folk Balladeers: An Analysis of Orfeo in Celtic Music and Literature." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1462977417.

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Stannard, James. "The influence and subversion of the Southern folk tradition in the novels of William Faulkner." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15250/.

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I argue that the Southern folk tradition is William Faulkner’s strongest influence. Faulkner experienced both a black and white folk culture in childhood through his Aunt Alabama and his nurse, Caroline Barr. I cover many of Faulkner’s ‘Modernist’ novels but examine their folk and vernacular elements, such as Jason Compson’s vernacular consciousness, the storytelling in Absalom, Absalom! or the trickster figure in the Snopes novels. I will be using Ed Piacentino’s The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor for secondary research and Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination and Rabelais and his World to provide a theoretical framework regarding the text as an interaction of competing discourses, and the ‘grotesque.’ I examine several writers to provide a folk ‘context.’ Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s ‘The Horse-Swap’ uses vernacular traders, but a refined observer passes judgment on their actions. George Washington Harris brings vernacular culture to the forefront. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an entire novel written in folk speech which invests the folk narrator with a conscience. I argue Faulkner also bestows his writing with folk morality, such as V.K. Ratliff’s stand against the rapacity of Flem Snopes. I also examine the conjure tales of Charles Chesnutt. Uncle Julius exemplifies black folk wisdom being used to outsmart the white northerners, demonstrating how many use folk culture to further their own ends. The third chapter examines the grotesque, through an examination of Harris, Chesnutt and Erskine Caldwell, along with Faulkner, and Bakhtin and Rabelais’ discussion of the ‘physical’ and ‘psychological’ grotesque, the damage caused by mental illness or obsession with the past. I examine how the psychological state manifests in the physical in Faulkner’s writing, and how he humanises those society deems ‘grotesque’ through psychological insight, emphasising the cruelty in simply regarding such beings as ‘spectacle.

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Greenlee, Jessica. "Folk narrative in the nineteenth-century British novel /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1283959861&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-228). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Kim, Christine. "Munui (문의): Modern Adaptations of Korean Folk and Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1911.

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Zafiropoulos, Christos A. "Ethics in Aesop's Fables : the Augustana Collection." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264612.

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Coelho, Ivandro de Souza. "Estudo das imagens simbólicas nas toadas de bumba meu boi de Donato Alves: uma contribuição para a educação." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2016. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/1708.

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This study aims to make a symbolic interpretation of the representations in the "bumba meu boi" songs of the singer, born in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, Donaldo Alves. This analysis is made considering the four natural elements: water, air, earth and fire. Its theoretical fundament is based on the Abstraction Theory perspectives of Gaston Bachelard and Gilbert Duran. The study attempts to understand the recurrent symbols in Donato Alves' work as well as its contributions to a humanizing education. It is a research anchored to a comprehensive hermeneutic view and one that renews the sense, as it deals with the plysemic symbols represented in human creations. Therefore, this study is based on a holistic paradigm which values the unity of knowledge, of science and of men, as well as considers the complexity of the subject, understanding these abstractions as constituting and organizing elements of society. Regarding data collection, this study considers the reading/listening of Donato Alves' songs and other works connected to the subject as well as the experience of a workshop at CE Raimundo Araújo in Chapadinha-MA. A qualitatitive approach was chosen for the research, in a comprehensive perspective, which contemplates a selection of texts and literary representations analysed in their contexts to provide a more accurate interpretation of the phenomenon in case. It is concluded that folk literature and abstraction, once experienced at school through literary symbols, allow students (reader/listener) to develop their imagination, creativity and emotions, giving them tools to understand themselves and others. This process accurs through dialogue, in a sensitive way, contributing thus to a humanizing education.
Este estudo busca realizar uma leitura simbólica das imagens presentes nas toadas de bumba meu boi do cantador maranhense Donato Alves, a partir dos quatro elementos materiais água, ar, terra e fogo. Como base teórica, recorre-se à Teoria do Imaginário sob as perspectivas de Gaston Bachelard e Gilbert Durand, no intuito de apreender as imagens recorrentes nas obras de Donato Alves, bem como sua contribuição para uma educação humanizadora. Trata-se de um estudo ancorado numa visão hermenêutica compreensiva e instauradora de sentidos, uma vez que trabalha com as polissemias simbólicas frutos das criações humanas. Para tanto, fundamenta-se no paradigma holonômico, que valoriza a unificação do conhecimento, da ciência e do homem, bem como considera a complexidade do sujeito, compreendendo o imaginário como fator organizador e instituinte da sociedade. Para a coleta de dados, optou-se pela leitura/escuta das toadas de Donato Alves, bem como a consulta a trabalhos relacionados ao tema e, ainda, a aplicação de uma oficina na escola CE Raimundo Araújo, em Chapadinha-MA. Quanto à natureza da pesquisa, escolheu-se a abordagem qualitativa, dentro da perspectiva compreensiva, que contempla o conjunto formado por texto e imagem literária analisados em seu contexto, de forma a proporcionar uma interpretação mais aproximada do fenômeno estudado. Constatou-se que a literatura popular e o imaginário, ao serem vivenciados na escola por meio das imagens literárias, permitem que o aluno (leitor/ouvinte) desenvolva a imaginação, a criatividade e a emoção, possibilitando-lhe compreender a si mesmo e ao outro. Processo que ocorre de forma sensível e dialógica, contribuindo assim para uma educação humanizadora.

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Mortensen, Camilla Henriette. "Healing the handless maiden : women's (counter) narrative and the recuperation of agency /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061959.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Goussias, Giannoula. "Heroes and heroic life in the Iliad and Akritic folk-song /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armg717.pdf.

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Parry, Simon Halsall. "Why should the Devil have all the best tunes? : 20th century popular- and folk-style church music in England." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369112.

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Williams, Heidi Jean. "The One Man Crew: The Creating and Sustaining of a Master Folk Artist." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3849.

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Folk art is the art of everyday life. Framing homes can be artistic when done with a degree of exemplary expertise. Jerry Saville is a master folk artist because of his special skills and techniques exhibited in his trade of carpentry. This research provides a glimpse into a carpenter’s life to discover what creates and sustains a master carpenter. Through desire, drive, dedication (time/practice), life experience/opportunity (apprenticeship), purpose, and a community of support, Jerry Saville became a master folk artist.

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Carpenter, Damian A. "Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and American Folk Outlaw Performance." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amzn.com/1472484428.

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With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a part of and apart from settled American society by examining outlaw myth, performance, and perception over time. Since the late nineteenth century, the outlaw voice has been most prominent in folk performance, the result being a cultural persona invested in an outlaw tradition that conflates the historic, folkloric, and social in a cultural act. Focusing on the works and guises of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Carpenter goes beyond the outlaw figure’s heroic associations and expands on its historical (Jesse James, Billy the Kid), folk (John Henry, Stagolee), and social (tramps, hoboes) forms. He argues that all three performers represent a culturally disruptive force, whether it be the bad outlaw Lead Belly represented to an urban bourgeoisie audience, the good outlaw Guthrie shaped to reflect the social concerns of marginalized people, or the honest outlaw Dylan offered audiences who responded to him as a promoter of clear-sighted self-evaluation. As Carpenter shows, the outlaw and the law as located in society are interdependent in terms of definition. His study provides an in-depth look at the outlaw figure’s self-reflexive commentary and critique of both the performer and society that reflects the times in which they played their outlaw roles.
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Vane, Jake D. "Prayer, Sacrifice, and Service: Themes in the Mormon Folk Narrative Tradition." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1272.

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The purpose of this study was to increase understanding of the Mormon folk group. Specifically, I aimed to analyze the Mormon folk narratives that center on three core values of Mormonism: prayer, sacrifice, and service. This project was an introductory approach, pointing the field of Mormon folk studies toward the study of these three narrative types. As these themes are central to Mormonism, my purpose was to offer more insight and understanding about Latter-day Saints. Looking at these stories, I examined the ways in which Latter-day Saints believe and practice the doctrinal principles that undergird these themes. Furthermore, I discussed the manner in which and the purposes for which Latter-day Saints share these narratives. I analyzed each of the three narrative types in terms of their history, context, structure and patterns, performance qualities and functions, and meaning. This study examined narratives that I collected from various places in Utah. The stories that I collected through interviews formed the foundation of my study. Additionally, I obtained stories by observing storytelling events and conversing interpersonally and in small groups with Latter-day Saints. In order to obtain a larger sampling, I collected some stories from LDS published works. I ended up compiling at least thirty stories for each narrative type. The results of the study included a greater understanding of how prayer, sacrifice, and service operate in Latter-day Saint life. Answered-prayer narratives were found to be a critical aspect of Mormon supernatural belief, as Latter-day Saints seek to involve God in everyday life. Narratives of sacrifice revealed the various ways in which Mormons seek to give up valued activities and interests in order to draw closer to God. Furthermore, service narratives exposed how Latter-day Saints commit themselves to service upon joining the Church and subsequently participate in a multitude of various service opportunities. My analysis of these three narrative types demonstrated essential aspects of what it means to be Mormon.

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Gelfand, Lynn. "Tales, technology, and transformations how different media environments shape the structure, style, and content of folk narratives /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319906.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2008.
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Gough, David Huw. "Xhosa narrative : an analysis of the production and linguistic properties of discourse with particular reference to "iintsomi" texts." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002086.

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Although the areas I intend to investigate are rather diverse, what unites them is a concern for the ancient and fascinating question of the relationship between language and thought. Assumptions concerning the latter are surely latent as the basis for any inquiry into language. One of my general purposes is to give some overt orientation to this problem which is all too often simply glossed over. More particularly, I am also concerned with shaping a new approach to Bantu linguistic inquiry in terms of an emphasis on discourse analysis. In the context of the burgeoning of discourse analysis internationally, the field has been seriously neglected in Southern Africa. Studies of discourse are, we believe, vital to advancing our knowledge of inter-ethnic communication and understanding, an area that cannot be ignored in Southern Africa. In more general terms, I hope that this thesis represents a challenge to linguistic inquiry in ways that we have already outlined above. Most importantly, is that while it appears that most South African linguists are satisfied with adopting a rigid monotheoretical approach, I differ, advocating a multitheoretical perspective. This, I believe, allows a greater and more holistic view not only of the 'data' in question but also in terms of the general nature of inquiry, as well as the 'world' it attempts to describe. The body of this thesis is divided into two sections which reflect the two central concerns we have outlined above. Section A, divided into three chapters, is chiefly concerned with the conceptual basis of Xhosa narrative and its linguistic manifestation. In this section we shall find cause to query and to redefine traditional approaches to the linguistic categories manifest in Xhosa narrative. In section B, also divided into three chapters, we shall be concerned with the development of a theory of narrative production with specific reference to intsomi production. In this section we include an in depth criticism of previous approaches to this problem before developing and applying our own theory. There are two appendices attached to this thesis. The first presents certain tables and figures relevant to chapter 4. while the second includes the narrative texts from which we draw our examples. (Introduction, p. 21-22)

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Cleto, Sara Baer Cleto. "Bodies of Stories: Disability and Folklore in Nineteenth-Century British Literature." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534683947720131.

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Sinarinzi, Jeanson. "La production du texte oral pastoral kiruúndi." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. http://books.google.com/books?id=llOBAAAAMAAJ.

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Jonsson, Ellen. "Att tala i folkets namn : En retorisk analys av ”folk” som mytisk idé hos August Palm och Jimmie Åkesson." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för retorik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323712.

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Costes, Anne. "La métamorphose Fonctions et investissements sémantiques au sein de cent et un contes européens et africains. Thèse, Université Toulouse le Mirail, juillet 1998 /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43984176.html.

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Lam, Bonita Mei-Hua Soohoo. "HONG MAI AND THE "YI JIAN ZHI" (SUNG LITERATURE, CHINA, CHIH-KUAI)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292094.

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Cooper, Jessica. "The Roles of Women, Animals, and Nature in Traditional Japanese and Western Folk Tales Carry Over into Modern Japanese and Western Culture." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/166.

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The roles of women, animals, and nature in traditional Japanese and Western folk tales continue to be parallel to the roles of women, animals, and nature in modern Japanese and Western Culture. This is a result of the values and morals that are encapsulated within these folk tales.

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Thornton, Sybil Anne. "The propaganda traditions of the Yugyo-ha : the campaign to establish the Jishu as an independent school of Japanese Buddhism (1300-1700)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304478.

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This thesis examines references to priests and temples of the Japanese Pure Land Buddhist school claiming Ippen (1239-1289) as founder; the most important of the lineages was the Yugyō-ha, or 'itinerancy school'. Scattered in Noh plays, epics, documents, histories, diaries, et cetera over a four-hundred-year period, these references are the residue of a long-term and successful propaganda campaign advertising doctrines, miracles, and services to the military class. The thesis focuses especially on the themes and formulaic diction borrowed from existing texts and developed by the school as it distinguished itself from other Pure Land schools. The rôle of what became the Jishū (usually translated 'Time Sect') in the guardianship of the identity of the founder of the Tokugawa family is of special interest.

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Kline, Daniel P. "Bringing Pocci’s “Hansel and Gretel” to America: A Study and Translation of a Puppet Show." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211208363.

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Sutton, Matthew D. "The Young, Clean-Cut America: The Hootenanny, Revisited." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2365.

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Mpolweni, Nosisi Lynette. "The orality - literacy debate with special reference to selected work of S.E.K. Mqhayi." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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The focus of this thesis is on Xhosa oral and written poetry. The discussion in the thesis is based on the information from existing literature, the responses from the questionnaires and the interviews with some Xhosa iimbongi (person who sings praises) who have reflected on their personal experiences. In addition to this, S.E.K. Mqhayi is at the centre of discussion because as a prominent Xhosa imbongi he features in both the oral and the written world.

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Brandt, Kristen Clark. "Cultural and Narrative Shifts of Nineteenth Century Children's Literature in Hawthorne's Wonder Book for Girls and Boys." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3083.

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Both folklorists and literary critics have been drawn to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s body of work because of his distinctive style and incorporation of folk motifs. Such motif-spotting presents no challenge in Hawthorne’s juvenile literature like his retellings from Greek mythology in Wonder Book for Girls and Boys; however, contemporary folklore redirects the focus of this scholarship to “how particular literary uses of folklore fit into a larger, more fundamental concept of what folklore is and how and what folklore communicates” (de Caro & Jordan 2015:15). Hawthorne’s work interacts with other forms of cultural expression in the nineteenth century such as dominant cultural narratives and artwork to transform the classical narratives in Wonder Book for Girls and Boys into narratives that reflect customs in conversational discourse and childrearing practice.

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Johansson, Andrew, and Peter Andersson. "Klassisk är en bok som folk berömmer men ingen läser : En undersökning om hur lärare väljer skönlitteratur åt elever." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-592.

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Detta är en undersökning om hur högstadielärare gör skönlitterära val åt sina elever i ämnet svenska. Vår undersökning begränsar sig till verksamma lärare och vi vill se hur lärarnas val påverkas av begrepp som kanon, populärkultur och skräplitteratur. Undersökningen har ägt rum på en skola i Småland, kallad Smålandsskolan, och en skola i Blekinge, kallad Blekingeskolan.

Undersökningen har genomförts med intervjuer av lärare under vår VFU (verksamhetsförlagda utbildning) där vi har ställt frågor utifrån en intervjuguide som vi i förväg skapat. Frågorna handlade om vilka undervisningsämnen lärarna hade, deras erfarenheter, vilken litteratur de använder i skolan och slutligen hur de ställer sig till kanonbegreppet.

Resultaten visar att lärare påverkas av kanonlitteraturen när de väljer litteratur åt sina elever, men i olika stor utsträckning. Undersökningsskolornas skönlitterära utbud påverkas även av skolornas budget och om skolan har ett bibliotek. Lärarnas egen inställning till viss litteratur påverkar också de inköp av skönlitteratur som skolan gör. Vi har också sett antydningar till samband mellan skolans antologier och den skönlitteratur som köps in, eftersom antologierna används som aptitretare.

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Bollig, Solveig. "”Hvárigir skilðu annars mál” : Möten och kommunikation med främmande folk i fornvästnordisk litteratur." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-163631.

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The aim of this master’s degree essays is to analyse and compare the first-contact situations and means of communication as described in four different sagas including Legendary Sagas and Sagas of Icelanders, more specifically Vínlandsagas. Two additional papers on contacts and communication with indigenous people from the perspectives of Spanish conquistadores and Brittish settlers in Australia were reviewed to establish a baseline for behaviour in contact situations with unknown peoples. The analysis of both sagas and additional sources shows that neither of them focus in their description on communications tools and instead focus on the different behaviour of the indigenous people as observed by the settlers and conquistadores and on the actions and transactions with the indigenous peoples.
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, die Beschreibungen von Erstkontaktsituationen und Kommunikationsmitteln in vier verschiedenen Sagas zu vergleichen und zu analysieren. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Vorzeitsagas und Isländersagas, insbesondere Vínlandsagas untersucht. Zudem wurden zwei ergänzende Artikel zu Erstkontakten und Kommunikation mit indigenen Bevölkerungen aus der Sicht von spanischen Conquistadores und britischen Kolonisateuren in Australien aufgearbeitet, um eine Operationslinie für das Verhalten in Kontaktsituationen mit fremden Bevölkerungen zu haben. Die Analyse von sowohl Sagas als auch den ergänzenden Quellen zeigt, dass weder Sagas noch spätere Aufzeichnungen Beschreibungen der Kommunikationsmittel en detail erwähnen. Stattdessen liegt der Fokus auf dem vom eigenen abweichenden Verhalten und dem Umgang mit den indigenen Bevölkerungen.

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Gröndahl, Satu. "Den ofullkomliga traditionen bilden av Ingermanlands kvinnliga runotradition /." Uppsala : Stockholm : AUU ; Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/36499319.html.

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Reiss, Nicole S. (Nicole Susanne). "Universal fairy tales and folktales : a cross-cultural analysis of the animal suitor motif in the Grimm's fairy tales and in the North American Indian folktales." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=24103.

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The primary objective of this M. A. thesis is to correct some false assumptions found in both older and more recent secondary literature on North American Indian narratives. Many folklorists base their folktale criteria on terms of cultural differences instead of similarities which results in an ethnocentric point of view that holds the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmarchen as a standard against which all other folktale collections falls short. If we want to strive for a world view that will embrace all types of literature, while respecting the individuality of each culture, then we must focus on the essential similarities among world literatures and not the differences. The purpose of using another culture as a comparison, such as that of the North American Indians, is to question the ethnocentric definitions of folktales and fairy tales which have often been too rigid. Perhaps those cultural values exhibited by North American Indian folktales could prove to be beneficial to the world's multi-cultural society, in that these values could enrich and rejuvenate some Western values, such as respect for animals and the environment. These values may offer solutions to urgent contemporary world problems. Through a comparative analysis of the animal suitor motif found in the Grimms' fairy tales and North American Indian folktales, I hope to call attention to the stark cross-cultural similarities in universal folklore and to bring to light the multiplicity of cultural values which are deeply rooted in fairy tales and folklores around the world.

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Erapu, Laban Omella. "A study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later novels to assess his adaptation of dramatic techniques and Gikuyu oral traditions to the requirements of fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002278.

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This thesis examines Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later writings in order to establish the nature of his quest for a people's literature. It illustrates how the author attempts to break the barriers between traditional oral forms and the relatively new written forms in addressing a basically "illiterate" audience. The research begins with an exploration of Gikuyu oral literature as an essential background to Ngugi's later dramatic and fictional writings as distinct from his earlier literary works in which he initiates the dominant quest for a more just society. Ngugi's return to these roots constitutes the central "homecoming" that characterizes his search for new forms. The analysis is conducted through three significant chronological stages representing Ngugi's writings over a period of about a decade from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Each stage starts with a play and performance followed by a parallel novel, the first pair written in English and the subsequent ones in Gikuyu. The three stages - designated Transition, Homecoming and Realization - mark Ngugi's involvement in the promotion of Gikuyu culture and orature, both as a source of inspiration and as a cause to which he fully dedicates himself. The transitional stage depicts the convergence between conventional and traditional oral literary forms with which Ngugi begins to experiment. The second stage introduces significant departures as Ngugi begins to use the Gikuyu language as his primary medium of creative expression. The final stage demonstrates his ultimate assertion of the primacy of orality over the written word as a dynamic agent of transmission. The thesis concludes that Ngugi wa Thiong'o in these later works - while leaving the possibilities of his vision of a "New Earth" unfulfilled pioneers the African writers' climb down from an "ivory tower" to deal with the realities of the experience of the predominantly non-reading African masses, acknowledged as both recipients of and active participants in the relatively new written literature which purports to speak for their experiences and their times.

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Ewaldsson, Frida. "”Samma sorts medelåldersmän som skulle kunna vara Sverigedemokrater, men dom är precis tvärtom. Dom är inlines-män!” : En narratologisk analys av den retoriska effekten i Trevligt folk." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-452757.

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