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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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Lewis, Huw Aled. "The Otherworld in popular medieval Spanish literature, with Celtic analogues." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307229.

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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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Hillard, Molly Clark. ""Obscure dread and intense desire" : folklore, literature, and the Victorian self /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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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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<p> 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.</p>

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Griffith, David Michael. "The significance of folklore in some selected Middle English romances." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304285.

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Hernandez, Nellie D. "Integrating folklore in a literature based curriculum using a whole language approach." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/342.

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Braccia, Nicole Cathryn. "The Influence of Fairy Tales on the Works of Edgar Allan Poe." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1367874752.

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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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Miller, John Douglas. "Buck-horned snakes and possum women: Non-white folkore, antebellum *Southern literature, and interracial cultural exchange." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623556.

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The antebellum American South was a site of continual human mobility and social fluidity. This cultivated a pattern of cultural exchange between black, indigenous, and white Southerners, especially in the Old Southwest, making the region a cultural borderland as well as a geographical one. This environment resulted in the creolization of many aspects of life in the region. to date, the literature of the Old South has yet to be studied in this context. This project traces the diffusion of African-American and Native American culture in white-authored Southern texts.;For instance, textual evidence in Old Southwestern Humor reveals a pattern of adaptations of folklore belonging to African-Americans. Johnson Jones Hooper's Some Adventures of Simon Suggs (1845) in particular reflects the presence of plots and motifs that originated in African trickster tales. Not all white Southern authors were menable to creolization, though. Novelists like William Gilmore Simms drew from but resisted the complete integration of non-white folklore in his historical romances. Native Americans and their culture frequently appear in his The Yemassee (1835), for instance, but always in a separate sphere.;The differences associated with the creolization of Old Southwestern Humor and the lack thereof in Southern historical romances reflect a distinction in Southern attitudes toward westward expansion and its social implications. In particular, the degree to which these authors did or did not resist creolization reflects their opinion about patterns of antebellum emigration and the backwoods social fluidity that contributed to the phenomenon of cultural exchange. Older conservatives like Simms, for instance, perceived the Old Southwest as a threat due to its rowdiness, materialism, and permeable social class. Novels by these authors displaced this milieu into the colonial past at an historical moment at which it became stabilized. The consequent elimination of Native Americans by whites in these texts marked a symbolic victory for order and stasis.;The texts of younger emigres to the South like Hooper reflect an alternate perspective. their embrace of the creative opportunities made possible by the social instability of the Old Southwest corresponds to their enthusiasm for the economic and social promise afforded by this recently settled region. In other words, the authors' openness to creolization mirrors a tolerance of the chaos born of mobility and a lack of structure. Suggs's antisocial exploits are adapted from African-American trickster tales whose characteristic disdain for authority and subversiveness contribute to Hooper's satire of traditional attitudes, including paternalism, which sought to limit this social flux.;These texts' competing viewpoints of the frontier allow scholars to get a sense of the diversity of social and political thought in the region---there was no monolithic Mind of the Old South. Additionally, acknowledging that these texts are a product of the multicultural environment reveals the contributions of Africans and Native Americans to Southern literature at its formative stage.

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Danielou, Élodie. ""La Prophétie des Ombres" suivi de La symbolique du mythe dans le conte merveilleux: Entre traditions et interculturalisme." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28376.

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Dans la première partie de cette thèse, on trouvera le conte merveilleux La Prophétie des Ombres. Il tire certains thèmes et mythèmes de mythes et contes bretons et algonquiens. Sous leur propre influence, les figures mythiques ont échangé noms et caractéristiques. Laboratoire expérimental, La Prophétie des Ombres s'est transformé en un véritable mythe littéraire. La seconde partie offre une réflexion sur l'influence du mythe en littérature. Je me suis d'abord employée à définir le mythe, le conte et la légende. Puis, j'ai présenté l'histoire de la théorie du mythe littéraire et de la mythocritique. Dans un deuxième chapitre, j'ai analysé les théories de l'intertextualité afin de mieux comprendre comment la structure mythique est reprise dans le récit littéraire, et donc, dans mon processus d'écriture. J'y ai également défini le symbole. Enfin, le quatrième chapitre conclut l'étude en montrant comment je me suis appuyée sur ces théories pour construire une structure mythique et comment cela m'a permis de repenser mon travail d'écriture.

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Anderson, Amanda L. "Scripts that Tame Us| "Beauty and the Beast" as Vehicle of Cultural Construction and Deconstruction." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3615284.

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<p> From Madame Le Prince de Beaumont to Francesca Lia Block, Walter Crane to Mercer Mayer, and Jacques Cocteau to the Walt Disney Company, authors, artists, and filmmakers are drawn to recreating "Beauty and the Beast." As a result "Beauty and the Beast" is reformatted to reflect shifts in cultural assumptions, particularly ideas of gender roles, sexuality, and identifying the Other. Therefore, by examining the recurring motifs of the feminine ideal, the Beast as Other, and the transposition of the tale to an Orientalized setting, within adaptations of "Beauty and the Beast," it becomes clear that the tale is a multi-voiced tool with which authors and illustrators use to simultaneously support and subvert the hegemonic status quo. Examining the significance of "Beauty and the Beast" offers insight as to the power that revised texts have over their precursor texts and their producing culture. By understanding the importance of "Beauty and the Beast" as a symbiotic text, one can understand how it functions within its cultural context. Such an examination reveals that not only does culture dictate the tales we tell, but also that the tales we tell dictate our cultural identity. Ultimately this project concludes that this tale works within Western culture to convey shifting cultural messages about Otherness, women, and Islam.</p>

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Bradley, Kristen A. "A Tennessee Irish Picnic| Foodways and Complex Community Dynamics." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3622924.

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<p> St. Patrick's Irish Picnic and Homecoming is a barbecue event held every July in the small town of McEwen, Tennessee, located just west of Nashville. Each year, volunteers for the event barbecue 20,000 pounds of pork shoulder and 4,000 chicken halves. With its massive size, the event is the primary fundraiser for St. Patrick's Church and School, and as such holds great importance within the community. A <i>Tennessee Irish Picnic</i> examines the history, culture, and folklore of the event, analyzing it as it fits within the larger context of barbecue in the American South. Utilizing archival research and interviews with event volunteers and St. Patrick's parishioners, the author's ethnographic approach reveals many similarities between the event and the overarching cultural narrative of barbecue. In other ways, however, the event stands in alternative to these interpretations. Although cultural depictions of barbecue portray the foodway as a marginalizing experience between north and south, female and male, white and black, primitive and civilized, an investigation of the narrative on a smaller scale reveals the complexities of the foodway as a mark of community history and group and personal identities. The event becomes important not only on a financial level, but also in terms of understanding community dynamics.</p>

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Bodin, Courtney. "A Chronicle of Anxiety| Dissolving Interiorities and Fractured Exteriorities in the Works of Shirley Jackson." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10824987.

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<p>This thesis is a critical examination of a handful of the works of Shirley Jackson. It is an attempt at engaging in critical scholarship that for many years has been relatively lacking. In it, her stories ?The Summer People,? ?Pillar of Salt,? and ?The Daemon Lover? are examined alongside her novels Hangsaman and The Haunting of Hill House. This thesis addresses the ways in which Shirley Jackson writes the interior worlds of her protagonists and explores how those interiors are often physically linked to the physical worlds that these characters inhabit. Particularly, this thesis examines how Jackson writes the dissolution of her characters? fragile interiorities in the face of trauma spurred on by society?s oppression of women. Each section of this thesis attempts to examine how Jackson creates coping mechanisms for these protagonists and how these coping mechanisms fail to provide comfort and safety for her protagonists as their stories progress. By the end of this thesis, it is clear that Jackson?s work is a bleak chronicle of trauma and anxiety. In the starkest terms, she exposes just how few options women have in the face of a society that refuses to allow them to be whole individuals.

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Goldenberg, Amy Rachel. ""Vasilisa and Staver": The Russian Version of the International Narrative "Woman Dressed As a Man Rescues Her Husband"." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1380552531.

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Madigan, Patricia Alice. "A performance analysis of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487327695624074.

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Graca, Kathleen. "Raptors of Maleficium." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1489803745718878.

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Hanes, Stacie L. "The sense and sensibility of the 19th century fantastic." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618887.

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<p> While studies of fantastic literature have often focused on their structural and genre characteristics, less attention has been paid to the manner in which they address social issues and concerns. Drawing on theoretical, taxonomic, and historical approaches, this study argues that 19th-century England represented a key period of transformation during which fantastic literature evolved away from its folkloristic, mythic, and satirical origins and toward the modern genres of science fiction, feminist fantasy, and literary horror. </p><p> The thesis examines the subversive and transformative function of the fantastic in nineteenth-century British literature, particularly how the novel <i> Frankenstein</i> (1831), the poem “Goblin Market” (1862), and the novel <i>Dracula</i> (1897) make deliberate uses of the materials of fantastic literature to engage in social and cultural commentary on key issues of their time, and by so doing to mark a significant transformation in the way fantastic materials can be used in narrative.</p><p> <i>Frankenstein</i> took the materials of the Gothic and effectively transformed them into science fiction, not only through its exploration of the morality of scientific research, but more crucially through its critique of systems of education and the nature of learning. "Goblin Market " transformed the materials of fairy tales into a morally complex critique of gender relations and the importance of women's agency, which paved the way for an entire tradition of such redactions among later feminist writers. <i>Dracula</i> draws on cruder antecedents of vampire tales and the novel of sensation to create the first modern literary horror novel, while addressing key emerging anxieties of nationalism and personal identity. </p><p> Although historical connections are drawn between these three key works, written at different points during the nineteenth century, it does not argue that they constitute a single identifiable movement, but rather that each provided a template for how later writers might adapt fantastic materials to more complex literary, social, and didactic ends, and thus provided a groundwork for the more complex modern uses of the fantastic as a legitimate resource for writers concerned with not only sensation, but significant cultural and social concerns.</p>

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Sumner, Natasha D. E. "The Fenian Narrative Corpus, c.600–c.2000: A Reassessment." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467373.

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This dissertation traces the historical development of the Fenian narrative tradition—i.e. the vast body of story and song, some of it well over a millennium old, about the Gaelic hero, Fionn Mac Cumhaill and his roving warrior band. The first chapter traces the history of the tradition from the early medieval period up to Macpherson’s monumental publications. The nature of the literary manifestations of Fenian topics and such evidence as there is for an oral tradition prior to modern attestations are discussed. In a demonstration of the cultural relevance of the tradition, the ways in which socially and politically relevant meanings may have been woven into the extant texts are also explored. The focus then shifts in the second chapter to a consideration of the approaches taken to Fenian literature and lore in the Macphersonic period. Macpherson’s cultural milieu, motivations, and creative process are investigated, and his adaptations are situated in their national and international contexts. Their influence and sociopolitical import within a trans-Gaelic sphere in the century after their publication are then addressed. The third and final chapter examines the Fenian tradition in the post-Macphersonic period, with a particular focus on the sociopolitical significance of modern approaches to the Fenian tradition. This is the period of folklore collection, and of primary importance are the motivations and activities of folklore collectors in the Gaelic regions. Also explored are modern publications, adaptations, and overt politicizations of Fenian material, particularly in Ireland. The image of the Fenian tradition that emerges from this tripartite consideration is one of a dynamic and multifaceted body of story and song that has remained relevant over the centuries due to constant adaptation.<br>Celtic Languages and Literatures

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Fay, Leann. "Human Connections with the Ocean Represented in African and Japanese Oral Narratives| Ecopsychological Perspectives." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419400.

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<p> This dissertation demonstrates how characteristics and functions of African and Japanese oral narrative traditions make narratives about the ocean in these traditions useful for exploring some of the complex psychological roles the ocean plays in people’s lives. A background of these oral narrative traditions and the main characteristics and functions of African and Japanese oral narratives are identified from the literature, African and Japanese ecopsychological perspectives are outlined, and a hermeneutic methodology applies text analysis to identify connections between humans and the ocean represented in a selection of text versions of ocean oral narratives. African and Japanese oral narratives are transmitted in adaptable yet continuous traditions, reflective of self and group identity, used to serve social and community functions, connected to spiritual traditions, and used as tools for power or resistance to power. Intimate connections between humans and the ocean are represented in the selection of narratives. In African oral narratives, connections are represented including merging identities of the ocean and humans, contrasting of nurturing mother and dangerous mother elements, the ocean bringing children, extreme love, and taking extreme love, connections between the ocean and performance, and representations of the ocean in colonization, slavery, healing, and empowerment. In Japanese oral narratives, intimate connections are represented including magic gifts from the ocean, water deity wives, warnings of fishing, bodily sacrifice, and connections to spiritual traditions, people, and local places.</p><p>

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Randolph, Tamara Lee Dietrich. "Culture-mediated literature adult Chinese EFL student response to folktales /." access full-text online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2000. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9988979.

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Allred, David A. "Fiction, folklore, and reader competency : the politics of literary performance arenas /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3144396.

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Murtha, William Gearty. "The role of trickster humor in social evolution." Thesis, The University of North Dakota, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1552210.

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<p> Trickster humor is ubiquitous. Every society has some version of trickster and each society tells the stories of trickster over and over again to both enlighten and entertain. This thesis argues that trickster humor plays a fundamental role in helping society adapt by challenging social norms. Because trickster stories are humorous they are entertaining, because they critique social behaviors they are instructive. Tricksters break social rules, leaving society to remake them. This thesis examines the works of American Humorists Tom Robbins and Edward Abbey, particularly <i>Still Life with Woodpecker </i> and <i>The Monkey Wrench Gang</i>, arguing that these authors are contemporary trickster figures whose work not only entertains their audience but through their rule breaking offers them new possibilities in dealing with the unresolved conflicts American society is wrestling with in the last quarter of the twentieth century and beyond.</p>

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Marshall, Nancy. "The Eden Paradox| Humanity's simultaneous desire for and rejection of earthly paradise." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3721281.

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<p> Earthly paradise and its loss have fascinated humanity from the dawn of time. Indeed, the myth of earthly paradise is found throughout the world, and the longing for life in paradise is basic to every human being. The term paradise was first used in ancient Persia where it meant a walled garden. Thus paradise is designed to secure those inside in beauty and peace. However, such a life is also monotonous because perfection is unchangeable. </p><p> Life beyond paradise is complex and difficult, and the relevant myth is that of the hero, the being who rescues civilization from the chaos monster. We fanaticize about being such heroes and tend to worship heroes as a result. </p><p> The Eden Paradox represents the clash between our longing for paradise and our longing to be heroes. It also represents the clash between the first two stages of individuation, the preconscious and the ego-expansion stages. Thus, it has the potential two prevent one in its grip from reaching full maturity. It occurs in both individuals and groups. In individuals it manifests as inconsistent behavior with swings from joy in security to joy in saving others. In groups it manifests as a clash between a leader who acts like a deity and the followers who become passive worshipers who have lost their individuality.</p><p> If there is a cure for the Eden Paradox, it should be found in the final stage of individuation when wholeness results and in its associated myths of spiritual transformation. However, neither has a relationship to the Eden Paradox because those in its grip are not sufficiently mature to surrender part of our egos to the Self, the potential for wholeness in our unconscious minds. Thus they are trapped in eternal adolescence.</p><p> The Eden Paradox represents a central truth about humanity: We always want what we don’t have. If we feel secure, we want challenge; if we are constantly challenged, we want a quiet life. To be human is to be dissatisfied and, thus, open to the emotional swings caused by the Eden Paradox.</p><p> Key words: mythology, earthly paradise, hero myths, Eden, Jungian psychology, individuation</p>

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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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Al-Hujelan, Naser S. "Worldviews of the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula a study of cultural system /." [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:3319922.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3166. Adviser: Hasan El-Shamy.

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Gashler, Kristina Whitley. ""Tauser Killed Both Dogs" : and other suburban American family folklore /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd876.pdf.

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Hackett, Dawn Christine. "The Pulpit Leaner." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461445329.

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Huston-Findley, Shirley A. "Subverting the dramatic text : folklore, feminism, and the images of women in three canonical American plays /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901243.

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Mehta, Arti. "How do fables teach? reading the world of the fable in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit narratives /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. 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:3297125.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Classical Studies, 2007.<br>Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 25, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0602. Adviser: Eleanor W. Leach.

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DeJarnett, Torshi. "JerichoA Collection of Short Stories." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1585750813071813.

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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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Hakala, Marjorie R. "Are all the fairies dead? : fairy tales and place in Victorian realism /." Connect to online version, 2006. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2006/151.pdf.

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Boyd, Rebecca. ""Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts": Ghosts and Memory in Hamlet and Beloved." TopSCHOLAR®, 1998. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/334.

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Ghost stories are an ingrained part of most cultures because, typically, humans must be forced to confront those elements of their individual and communal past that they would prefer to ignore. Accordingly, ghosts have embodied weaknesses and hidden evils that must be assimilated and transcended, and writers have embroidered a variety of subtexts upon the traditional fabric of ghostlore. Specifically, both William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Toni Morrison's Beloved employ ghosts as symbols of man's archetypal desire to hide his past. A careful examination of the texts in these ghost stories, of the cultural folklore included, and of the ghosts' influence on individual characters reveals both writers' insistence that man must find the delicate balance between ignoring/evading the past and being consumed by that past. Both writers also explain that the individual's identity must integrate the past, but not be stifled by it. These works differ in that Shakespeare illustrates how man is destroyed when he does not find that balance and does not incorporate his past into his identity, while Morrison depicts the psychic balm that results from confrontation with and acceptance of the past as her characters face a new, more authentic life. While Shakespeare draws upon his society's widely accepted belief system, Morrison, operating in a culture alienated from its own mythic heritage, consciously constructs a mythic framework acceptable to the skeptical twentieth century reader.

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Suddarth, Linda Ann. "Into the glamoured spot| Numinous nature, fairy-faith, and the imagining psyche." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3597066.

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<p> There are places within nature which are imbued with magic and beauty. This dissertation explores the numinous or sacred within nature which creates such a hold upon the imagination. The images of enchantment from fairy-faith open the realms of nature as a threshold experience, explored through the research of W.Y. Evans-Wentz and Katherine Briggs. The concept of the invisibles in nature as "Other" is investigated through the ideas of Mary Watkins. </p><p> When one steps into these enchanted spaces, one may want to spontaneously sing, dance, or remember a story. Such an enchanted experience signals that the invisibles or fairy-folk may be present. The Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote that " . . . the beautiful [fairies] are not far away when we are walking in pleasant and quiet places [. . .] I will explore every little nook of some poor coppice with almost anxious footsteps, so deep a hold has this imagination upon me" (<i>Mythologies</i> 64). </p><p> A relationship between the human and natural orders of being encourages the imagination of both worlds. As Gaston Bachelard argues, "The imagination gives more than things and actions, it invents new life, new spirit; it opens eyes to new types of vision" (<i>On Poetic Imagination and Reverie</i> 16). The poetic imagination provides a way to enter the mythical spheres of nature. The imagining psyche, as seen through the lens of alchemy, mysticism, and physics, is explored through the work of W. B. Yeats, Mary Oliver, and William Shakespeare. In their works, the poetic imagination creates stories that give visionary form to the invisibles of nature. This study also investigates the figures of Arthurian legend, Merlin and Vivien, in their fairy aspect. Their story of disappearance into the primeval forest provides metaphors for the workings of numinosity within nature, such as the "return to the forest," and the "sacred marriage," explored through the thought of Heinrich Zimmer, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, and Marie Louise von Franz. </p><p> Finally, an accompanying creative component includes a journal of active/guided/shamanic imagination, a journal focusing on travel to Ireland, and a collection of poems, which, taken together, contribute to the exploration of the numinous qualities of nature.</p>

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Parry, Leona Anne. "Is seeing believing? Or, is believing seeing? An exploration of the enduring belief in fairies and little people among contemporary persons with Celtic ancestry." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3688091.

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<p> This Humanistic Social Science Dissertation is an exploration of the continuing belief in fairies as real in spite of over a millennium of sociopolitical and religious pressures aimed at the extinguishment of fairies. In this qualitative, phenomenological study, the belief narratives of eight subjects' encounters with fairy beings are examined.</p><p> For the purpose of this dissertation, the word fairy is based on but not limited to fairy scholar Katherine Briggs' definition and classification, which includes all spirits of the supernatural realms, except for angels, devils, or ghosts (i). Thus, "fairy" includes sylphs, subtle or intermediate beings, light fairies, nature elementals, pixies, leprechauns, elves, changelings, and brownies to name but a few. The fairy beings encountered by the interviewees are reflected against Celtic folklore established in classic works like Reverend Robert Kirk's 1691 manuscript (47) and Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz 1911 thesis.</p><p> Depth Psychology and science provide two additional lenses to explore fairy phenomena and belief since this dissertation seeks to investigate the relationship between reality and imagination, and between tradition, experiential knowing, and belief. Moreover, counterevidence and arguments to the prevailing cultural wisdom and beliefs that fairies and imaginal beings are impossible are examined. This study approaches the interviews from a perspective of cultural mythology and phenomenology with both emic and etic interests. The subjects experienced a moment of gnosis with fairy encounters and subsequently believed with unshaking resolve that fairies are real and true. In this context, C.G. Jung's concepts of the archetype and Henri Corbin's theories regarding the psychoid realm are helpful in understanding the Celtic Otherworld and Land of Fairy.</p><p> A constituent invariant model was developed to organize the data, and facilitated the emergence of key themes, including corroborated sightings, surprising shadows, and messages from nature beings. The belief in fairies continues and is part of an evolving, contemporary, and nature-based mythology that is very much alive.</p>

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Reed, Toni. "The projection of evil : an analysis of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British fiction influenced by "The demon lover" ballad /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487323583620901.

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Galuska, John D. "Mapping creative interiors creative process narratives and individualized workscapes in the Jamaican dub poetry context /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. 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:3310395.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2007.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 9, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1931. Advisers: John Johnson; Portia Maultsby.

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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.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3267. Adviser: Mary Ellen Brown.

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Lerner, Andrea. "Stories from Klamath Country." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185564.

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Stories from Klamath Country is a encounter with contemporary Klamath/Modoc oral literature from south central Oregon. Part ethno-poetics, part folklore, part literary criticism, and part narrative essay, the text presents an encounter with the enduring yet dynamic range of traditional and contemporary Klamath stories. Chapters focus on the issues of the transcription of an oral literature, performance, the connections between traditional and modern storytelling, ethnographic encounters and cross-cultural reading. Old and new stories are presented in this text, framed by an attention to the dynamics of assembling this larger story. Central as well to the discussion is the relationship between storytelling, landscape and identity.

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Noel, Carol Anne. "The function of folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God." Connect to resource, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1169742815.

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Bellorín, Briceño Brenda V. "De lo universal a lo global: nuevas formas del folklore en los álbumes para niños." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/311617.

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En este estudio bibliográfico exploratorio se analizan las reformulaciones de los cuentos de hadas en formato de álbum ilustrado a fin de valorar si éstas le brindan a los niños la posibilidad de incorporar y aprender formas narrativas básicas, inscribirse en un colectivo y en la cultura; todas ellas funciones formativas que tradicionalmente se le han atribuido a los cuentos populares. La premisa de la investigación es que el legado que se trasmite a los niños a través de los cuentos de hadas puede estar pasando de ser universal (un material transhistórico que transmite motivos literarios e imágenes arquetipales esenciales) a estarse alineando cada vez más con la conciencia global (marcada por la fragmentación, lo híbrido, la inmediatez, la estandarización de las expresiones culturales, etc.). A través del análisis de una muestra representativa de 130 álbumes publicados entre el 2000 y 2010 seleccionados a partir de la colección de la Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez –reconocida institución española de fomento de la lectura y el libro infantil– se busca establecer cuáles son los mecanismos de actualización que se emplean en estos relatos para ajustarse a las exigencias del mercado de hoy y para encajar en los discursos de la postmodernidad y las dinámicas de la globalización. Los álbumes, por su naturaleza multimodal, su condición de mercancía cultural y su creciente relevancia en la formación literaria de los niños, ofrecen claves para indagar en el tema, ya que implican formas y recursos específicos de apropiación de los relatos tradicionales y de las versiones audiovisuales. El análisis revela que aunque la mayoría de los libros siguen el legado de la tradición oral en cuanto que la estructura, los personajes y las relaciones espaciotemporales se mantienen bastante estándar, también las obras dialogan con el cine, los diferentes elementos de la cultura pop, otros libros ilustrados, obras para niños en general, la crítica literaria, etc. A este respecto, el análisis de las relaciones intertextuales tiene un rol fundamental en este estudio. Se ha detectado que algunos de los mecanismos más frecuentes utilizados por los creadores a la hora de actualizar las historias son el perspectivismo, las formas alternas de focalización, las alteraciones en el cronotopo, la parodia, la alusión a otros artefactos culturales, la metaficción, entre otros. Buscando expresar las interrelaciones entre los temas convencionales y las estrategias de actualización, el análisis se ha organizado temáticamente según cuatro ejes: transformaciones en los marcos espaciotemporales, transformaciones en los temas y los argumentos, transformaciones en los personajes y las caracterizaciones, y cambios en los nuevos usos del humor. Las conclusiones acerca de qué ofrecen los cuentos de hadas ilustrados y qué exigen de sus lectores se recogen al final del trabajo.<br>This exploratory bibliographic study analyses the reformulations of fairy tales in contemporary picturebooks in order to assess if they allow children to incorporate and learn basic narrative forms, inherit collective images that have cultural meaning and that are important for socialisation –all functions that have been traditionally linked to folk tales. The premise of this work is that the legacy that is passed on to children through fairy tales may be becoming less universal (as in transhistoric material that conveys essential archetype images) and increasingly more aligned with the global consciousness (as in materials marked by fragmentation, hybridity, immediacy, standardisation of cultural expressions, etc.). A sample of 130 picturebooks published between 2000 and 2010 selected from the book collection of the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez’ –the renown Spanish reading promotion institution specialized in children’s literature– is analysed to establish which are the mechanisms used to make folktale-material meet the demands of today's market, and how fairy tales reshape because of the influence of postmodern artistic discourses and the dynamics of globalization. Picturebooks’ multimodal nature, their cultural commodity status and their growing importance in children’s literary education make these books ideal to explore specific forms and means of appropriation of traditional and audiovisual stories. The analysis reveals that though the majority of the books follow the legacy of the oral tradition (structure, character and spatiotemporal remain almost the same), they also dialogue with film, different elements of pop culture, other picturebooks, children’s books in general, literary criticism, etc. In this regard, analysing intertextual relationships is core to this study. Some of the most frequent mechanisms that are used by the creators to update the stories are: perspectivism, alternative ways of focalisation, alterations in the chronotope, parody and allusion to other cultural artefacts, metafiction, among others. Seeking to express the interrelations between conventional themes and updating strategies, the analysis has been organised thematically: spatial-temporal changes, transformations in the plot, changes in characters and characterisations, and transformation in the uses of the humour. Conclusions about what contemporary fairy-tale picturebooks offer and demand from their readers are presented in the end.

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Harline, Geneva. "Allowing the Untellable to Visit: Investigating Digital Folklore, PTSD and Stigma." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6897.

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In the introduction of 2012 issue of The Journal of Folklore Research, Diane Goldstein and Amy Shuman issue a “call to arms for folklorists … to concentrate on the vernacular experience of the stigmatized.” (Goldstein and Shuman, 2012:116). Drawing on this call to arms, this thesis investigates how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is portrayed in social media through memes and captioned images. I argue that the genres of memes and captioned images in digital folklore work to help mitigate the stigma of PTSD because the veneer of anonymity in the digital world allows people with PTSD to be willing to share their experiences and struggles. With my findings on the use of memes and captioned images, my research demonstrates how digital folklore can be used to determine what education efforts are needed to mitigate stigma in the offline world. Through the focus on memes and captioned images relating to PTSD, I show that through the normalization of one mental health condition, digital folklore can help to alleviate stigma because the pervasive nature of digital culture allows for an influx of minimally moderated information, creating an avenue for understanding stigmatized groups.

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Li, Daohe. "Sui shi min su yu gu xiao shuo yan jiu." Tianjin Shi : Tianjin gu ji chu ban she, 2004.

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Smirnova, Daria, and Daria Smirnova. "The Petersburg Text in Russian Literature of the 1990s." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12526.

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The image of Saint Petersburg has influenced the imagination of Russian writers since the establishment of this city in 1703. Today, it is common to speak about the Petersburg Text in Russian literature that has its own mythology, imagery, and stylistics. However, the research in this sphere is predominately concentrated on works written before the second half of the 20th century. This thesis addresses the revival of the Petersburg mythology in the 1990s in works by such authors as Mikhail Veller, Andrei Konstantinov, and Marusia Klimova. It illustrates how the reinvention of traditional Petersburg themes contributed to the representation of the "wild 1990s" reality. It also examines the influence of mass media and popular culture on the development of Petersburg narration in terms of genre, style, and the creation of an author's public persona. The cultural significance of the cityscape in these works is of particular interest.

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劉柏康 and Pak-hong Lau. "Tales of vixen transformation in traditional Chinese "supernatural stories"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3121549X.

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Peretti, Daniel. "The modern Prometheus the persistence of an ancient myth in the modern world, 1950 to 2007 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. 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:3357985.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Feb. 8, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-05, Section: A, page: 1745. Adviser: Greg Schrempp.

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Salifu, Abdulai. "Names that prick : royal praise names in Dagbon, northern Ghana /." [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:3344619.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 6, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0649. Advisers: John H. McDowell; Hasan M. El-Shamy.

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Pack, Uraina N. "Afrointratextuality as a means of examining folklore in the emancipation narratives of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1997. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2650.

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This study examines the use and documentation of folklore within Emancipation narratives. This examination is predicated on the behavior of the trickster, Br’er Rabbit. Through analysis of Br’er Rabbit’s behavior, three survival techniques used by the authors in this study function as a means of determining his importance to African Americans. Through research and comparison of narratives, examination of historical references, and critical analyses, the researcher evaluated the behavior and experiences of African Americans within captivity to establish the use of folklore as a survival mechanism. By application of a methodology which evaluates African American experience and culture, the researcher sought to reinforce the connection between literature and culture. The researcher determined that cultural retention was evident and necessary to African Americans regardless of their circumstances. The conclusions of this analysis validate the importance of the narrative as a historical and cultural source for African American existence in America. The researcher’s methodology suggests that the use of folklore within the narrative is derivative of the imitation and revision of linguistic and physical motion specific to African American culture.

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Lamula, Allettah Tintswalo. "Nkanelo wa ku oviwa ka tinfanelo ta vavasati eka tsalwa ra Khale ka Makwangala hi F. Rikhotso." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1594.

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Thesis (M. A. (African Languages)) -- University of Limpopo, 2013.<br>The main aim of this study is to examine women’s abuse with special reference to Xitsonga folklore, Khale ka Makwangala by F. Rikhotso. This study also shows characters who are abused and those who cause this abuse. The first chapter reveals the general outline of the study, the problem statement, the aim, the importance and its methodology. The most important terms of the study have been explained in this chapter so as to reveal what is expected to be analyzed. Some of the definitions of the Constitution have been given. Chapter two gives short summary of the folklore Khale ka Makwangala by F. Rikhotso which has been examined together with the history of their authors. The definitions of the word human rights have been included and defined in this chapter. In this chapter, other folklores which have been selected for analysis have been analysed. Chapter three explains, defines and analyses the themes of selected folklores. The definitions of themes have been given in this chapter. These definitions make it easier to understand what themes are. Chapter four

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