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Bukowick, Karen Elizabeth. "Truth and Symbolism: Mythological Perspectives of the Wolf and Crow." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/489.

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Thesis advisor: Susan Michalczyk<br>This thesis explores crow and wolf symbolism within the mythology of Western Tradition, focusing on the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, Native American folklore, Shakespeare, and Aesop's fables. Much of the animal imagery in literature is negative and does not truthfully represent the animals symbolized. This thesis investigates why these negative associations are formed, how they relate to the biological lives of wolves and crows, and explores their ambiguity in relation to the positive symbolism that exists. Negative symbols acquire strength as cultures

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Dass, Rhonda. "Native American symbols in tattooing." [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:3386672.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4804. Adviser: John Wm. Johnson.

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Brown, Patricia. "The role and symbolism of the dragon in vernacular saints' legends, 1200-1500." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5414/.

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This thesis looks at the role and function of the dragon in the saint's encounter with the monster in hagiographic texts, written primarily in the vernacular, between 1200 and 1500. Those connotations accrued by the dragon which are relevant to this thesis are traced from their earliest beginnings. Although by the middle ages the multi-valency of the dragon is reduced to one primary symbolic valency, that of evil and significantly, the evil of paganism, the dragon never loses completely its ancient associations and they help to colour its function within the narrative. The symbolic use of the

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Eldridge, Pamela S. "Color and number patterns in the symbolic cosmoloqies of the Crow, Pawnee, Kiowa, and Cheyenne." Thesis, Wichita State University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5579.

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This study represents five years of research on the symbolic cosmologies of four Plains Indian tribes: the Crow, the Pawnee, the Kiowa, and the Cheyenne. Although the lexicons of the four tribes reveal many color and number patterns, there appear to be certain color and number categories that are more pervasive than others. Review of the early ethnographies and folklore texts has found the color categories of red, yellow, black, and white to be significant symbols in both ritual and myth. Further investigation suggests symbolic patterns involving the numbers two and four are also important to

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Seress, Hugues. "La musique « folklorique » pour piano (1907 – 1920) de Béla Bartók : emprunt symbolique, matériau combinatoire." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040101.

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L’emprunt au folklore constitue une des nombreuses manipulations effectuées par le créateur du début du XXe siècle, à partir d’un matériau préexistant à son œuvre. Ces manipulations sont sous-tendues par de multiples processus identitaires, qui souvent détournent le regard de l’analyste, de l’œuvre vers l’ensemble de ses connotations contextuelles et symboliques. S’interroger sur les conséquences, tant stylistiques que techniques, de ces phénomènes, ne semble pas aller de soi. En réexaminant la structure tonale d’œuvres, avec et sans emprunt, composées par Béla Bartók entre 1903 et 1920, via u

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Alvarez, Isabelle. "Étude sur l’évolution du thème des oiseaux de nuit dans la Grèce ancienne, médiévale et moderne." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040157.

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Cette étude se propose de dégager les variations du thème des oiseaux de nuit dans la Grèce ancienne, médiévale et moderne et de présenter une explication de ces différences en fonction du contexte historique, socioculturel et religieux. Pour la période ancienne, un inventaire des oiseaux de nuit a été établi et les occurrences concernant ces oiseaux dans la littérature, l’histoire, la mythologie et l’art ont été relevées. L’étude des oiseaux de nuit a été reprise à l’époque médiévale suivant la même approche en nous intéressant à la manière dont les principales caractéristiques des oiseaux de

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Akimova, Anna. "La chanson populaire et la poésie symboliste en France et en Russie (1880-1914)." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040121.

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Cette étude comparative a pour objet les différentes réceptions de la chanson populaire par les poètes symbolistes et les problèmes soulevés par les systèmes de versification. Le corpus symboliste russe repose sur les œuvres de Blok, Bély, Balmont, Brioussov, Kouzmine, Dobrolioublov, Sologoub et Ellis. Les poètes français analysés sont principalement les symbolistes dits mineurs (Kahn, Mauclair, Krysinska, Vielé-Griffin), mais les grands auteurs que sont Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Rimbaud et Verlaine ne sont pas négligés. Leurs œuvres sont confrontées aux textes populaires pour mettre en évidence

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Kucevič, Zinaida. "Символика коня в русской литературе и живописи". Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100707_142050-56325.

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В работе рассматривается эволюция лошади, мифология ее, воплощение в живописи и литературе.<br>Apžvelgiamas arklio vaidmuo civilizacijos, žmonijos kultūros istorijoje, parodoma evoliucija.Kreipiamas dėmesys į arklio įvaizdį mitologijoje, tautosakoje ir dailėje. Nagrinėjama L.Tolstojaus apysaka "Cholstomeras".Ji gretinama su A.Kuprina "Izumrud".<br>Herein, the role of a horse in civilization and history of culture of humanity is reviewed, its evoliution is disclosed. The image of horse in mythology, folklore and art (M.V.Vasnetsov, K. Petrov-Vodkin) is focused. In the analytic part, the story "

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Mountian, Daniela. "Simbologia do caos em O diabo mesquinho de Fiódor Sologub." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8155/tde-15062012-103007/.

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Este trabalho se propôs a analisar O Diabo Mesquinho (1892-1902), romance-chave de Fiódor Sologub (1863-1927), um dos expoentes do simbolismo russo. Além da importância incontestável da obra para a literatura russa e mundial, foi estímulo para a pesquisa a possibilidade de delinear o primeiro estudo acadêmico sobre o autor no Brasil. A análise seguiu duas direções, que continuamente se encontraram: a evidente tessitura paródica, e a presença de arquétipos míticos universais perpassados por elementos do folclore russo. Quanto ao uso da paródia, tendo como base teórica autores como Iuri Tyniánov

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Pourchier-Plasseraud, Suzanne. "Contribution des arts visuels à l'identité nationale : le cas de la Lettonie (1905-1940)." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010517.

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Après des décennies de lutte des « éveilleurs lettons » pour faire surgir une « idée nationale », vint la phase de popularisation de celle-ci auprès des masses. Pris entre les deux grandes puissances qui dominaient les provinces de la future Lettonie, ceux-ci, ne pouvant avoir recours à un passe ou à une unité territoriale historiques, se tournèrent vers la culture populaire et le folklore pour rendre visible l'identité nationale. Dans ce processus, les arts visuels - la peinture, la sculpture, l'architecture et les arts appliqués - jouèrent un rôle majeur. L'un des propos de cette thèse est d

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Daly, Robyn Anne. "Asleep in a glass coffin: fairy tales as illuminating attitudes to women in the novels of Charles Dickens." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002270.

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The field of research of this thesis covers three main areas: the novels of Charles Dickens; fairy tales and storytelling; and notions of women as reflected in feminist literary theory. A reading of selected novels by Dickens provides the primary source. That he copiously drew on fairy tales has been explored in such notable works as Harry Stone's, but the thesis concentrates on Dickens 's propensity in his creation of female protagonists to give them a voice which is vivified through fairy tale. The analysis of fairy story through narrative theory and feminist literary theory functions as the

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Luzyte, Rasa. "A thealogy of Mary : the non-Christian myth of Mary, the shadow of Mary and an individual connection to the divine self through Mary." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20251.

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My work on the thealogy of Mary conveys a largely subjective way of thinking, it does not claim to present the view of any group, and it does not profess a theoretical agenda for a cult or a religious movement of Mary. The framework of this work is grounded in symbolic (legends, fairy tales and images), psychological (the structure of the psyche according to Carl Gustav Jung: the Self, the conscious, the unconscious, the Shadow) and imaginative (individual interpretations of narratives and images) spheres that are combined with feminist spirituality theories, religious philosophy and literary

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Sweeney, Dominique. "Masked corroborees of the northwest - "stand up in my head"." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110183.

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In northwest Australia a range of corroborees incorporate the use of masks. These and other performance objects connect bodies to country, cultural knowledge and ancestors. They also reaffirm the political status of people in their country. My thesis is in two parts: making a digital video (DV) about the way these masks come into being and how they are used; and this written thesis analysing the groundwork process involved in making the DV. The Ngarinyin, Narinyman and Worla people of northwest Australia are peoples with whom I have concentrated my research and video documentation conc

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Wakim, Gulnar. "Le langage contemporain dans la danse au Moyen-Orient." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0331.

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Au XXe siècle, la danse au Moyen-Orient persiste à évoluer péniblement. Existant depuis des décennies, cette discipline fait une partie intégrante du vécu de la communauté. Toutefois, cela reste une pratique illégitime. Son exercice de manière professionnelle est déshonorant. Entre légitimité et illégitimité, l'évolution de la danse est paralysée du fait de son statut, mais la danse continue de défier la société pour se créer un avenir. La danse, au-delà de l'aspect festif, sert de point de départ dans notre recherche. Il s'agit de répondre à une question fondamentale: comment définir un langa

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Boekhoorn, Dimitri Nikolai. "Bestiaire mythique, légendaire et merveilleux dans la tradition celtique : de la littérature orale à la littérature écrite." Phd thesis, Rennes 2, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00293874/fr/.

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L'auteur propose d'étudier le « bestiaire celtique », entendu comme l'ensemble des animaux réels avant tout, dans la littérature celtique du Moyen Âge. A travers les textes mythologiques, héroïques et hagiographiques surtout, une vue d'ensemble sera établie. Il veut savoir ce que sont devenus les animaux cultuels de l'Antiquité dans les textes médiévaux ; il étudie également le rôle et le symbolisme des autres animaux de la tradition médiévale, qui n'étaient pas forcément importants pendant l'Antiquité ; il fait le tour de la question en donnant un aperçu du corpus étudié, en faisant des référ

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Molnar, Lauren B. "Pigeonholing without Hybridizing: The False Reduction of Toni Morrison's Beloved." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1303442088.

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Hammi, Arab. "Tamurt : un paysage emblématique et représentatif : la cas des proverbes kabyles." Thesis, Besançon, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BESA1008.

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Le terme Tamurt revêt, dans la culture berbère (amazigh), plusieurs acceptions : il désigne couramment un ensemble de personnes possédant la même identité, une région ou un territoire structuré par la même langue, la même origine, mais aussi ce qui a trait à la terre, au paysage ou à l’espace et ce qui est présent dans une même entité : les valeurs, les traditions ou les systèmes d’organisation.Les proverbes kabyles illustrent bien cette polysémie et ont encore, de nos jours, toute leur place dans la vie quotidienne des habitants du village de Tifrit Nait Oumalek, situé dans les monts d’Akfado

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Butzke, Petra. "Symbolika užovek v litevském folkloru." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-295385.

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The object of investigation in this work is to analyze užovky symbolism and its role in individual tanru spoken Lithuanian folklore. The symbol is pohlíženo as to the importance of perception užovky, its position and role in oral folklore. Examined the Lithuanian fairy tales (mythical) reputation, proverbs and sayings, riddles, prayers to užovce, incantations against snake bites and phraseologisms. We took examples from a number of available, folk sources. The analysis užovky symbolism and its role in appointed tanru we focused on features užovky in the Lithuanian pagan beliefs, mythologies of

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Lin, Pei-Yi, and 林佩怡. "Toward Symbolic Consumption Age – A Narrative Analysis of International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival of Yilan." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72623661644455759603.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>大眾傳播學系碩士班<br>96<br>This thesis concerns about symbolic consumption, narrative, tourism symbolic. In this research, we choose a case study of the International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival of Yilan(ICFFF). In order to discuss art festival is consumption phenomenon of tourism symbolic. According to narrative theory, to know travel tendency what’s different between before and nowadays. The thesis discuss auspice what said stories, what arose narrative symbolic. How said these stories, what arose meaning. To know auspice Auspice constructs several story lines: “ICFFF an

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Cheng, Yuchi, and 鄭玉琪. "From Folklore to Symbolic Poetics: the Sidhe and Vague Desire in Yeats's The Wind Among the Reeds." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11292478727805308958.

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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>外國文學所<br>97<br>This thesis explores how Yeats developed an Irish symbolic poetics in The Wind Among the Reeds by transforming specific elements of Irish folklore into what he hoped was a universal symbolism. He attempted, through an experimental poetic process, to illustrate various vague human desires and unify the Sidhe and relative elements of Celtic myth to reveal his idea of “unity of being.” Published in 1899, The Wind Among the Reeds illustrates various late nineteenth-century influences on Yeats—including Celticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and French symbolism—that provided h

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Janssen, Eric [Verfasser]. "Die Kausia : Symbolik und Funktion der makedonischen Kleidung / vorgelegt von Eric Janssen." 2008. http://d-nb.info/988388456/34.

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Du, Toit Marika Bella. "W.B. Yeats's aesthetic philosophy in his earlier works / Marika Bella du Toit." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15204.

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This dissertation investigates the development of W.B. Yeats’s aesthetic philosophy during his earlier career (1883 to 1907), particularly as it is presented in his prose writing and certain dramatic works of the period. Yeats is exposed to the folkloric tradition of Western Ireland from a young age while at the same time receiving a thorough education in the aesthetic philosophies of the Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites and French Symbolists. He finds the ideas regarding the ability of symbols to enlarge the imagination of the artist and his audience which these philosophies expound to be present i

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Theron, Elizabeth Rabie. "Jacob van Maerlant se Der naturen bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1108.

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Text in Afrikaans<br>During the past decade various studies have been conducted on the medieval bestiary and simultaneously much has been written on the life and work of the medieval scholar and writer, Jacob van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's famous encyclopaedic work, Der Naturen B/oeme (Book of Nature) has been thoroughly investigated in recent literary studies, though little has been done to identify this work as encyclopaedic narrative. The term, encyclopaedic narrative, is relatively unknown in Western literature and therefore demands the research which is conducted in this thesis. In

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Peni, Lawrance. "Nkanelo wa swikholwakholwana leswi fambelanaka na swiharhi na swinyenyana en'wanedzi etikweni ra Zimbabwe." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/721.

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MAAS (Xitsonga)<br>Ehansi ka Sentara ya M. E. R. Mathivha ya Tindzimi ta Afrika, Vutshila na Ndhavuko<br>This research describes and discusses the superstitions which are on the verge of dying out in Zimbabwe. The aim of this study is to explore various animals and birds superstitions predominantly among Machangana. The researcher shall use a qualitative method and data shall be attained through the use of interviews and the researcher will listen to and sometimes converse with the participants in a conducive manner. The researcher shall gather birds and animals superstitions from old people w

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Kelley-Galin, Deborah. "Dreaming, embodiment and perception in the narrative arts of the Hopi people." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25759.

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Text in English with abstracts in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu. Translated titles in Afrikaans and isiZulu.<br>This study examines the symbiotic relationships between Hopi traditional arts, the use of art and narrative as mnemonic device, and embedded references to the Fourth World narrative that describes how the Hopi people climbed from a troubled Third World into the current spatio-temporal era, the Fourth World. (The original oral narrative was published by anthropologist Harold Courlander and anonymous consultants in 1971 as The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi In

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