Search results for "Oral Literature" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Although they have their own supplemental oral and scriptural tradition, ... * Anderson, Robert T., and Terry Giles. Tradition Kept: The Literature ...
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  • the Celtic Revival in British literature. Often considered to be ... city, where his father taught English Literature. It was in the school& ...
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  • myths, legends, and oral histories. Their oral literature reflects the transitional position of Atsugewi culture between central California, Northwest ...
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  • starting point of Japanese culture and literature. The poems date from between ... (in Yakamochi's time) of Chinese literature and poetics. Certainly ...
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  • history, Homer's influence on literature has been unequalled, and ... and the poems were passed on for decades by oral tradition before being committed ...
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  • law and is much quoted in other Jewish literature. first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 ...
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  • Buddhism. Today, the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Republic of China ... proverbs from traditional Tibetan folk literature. Some Tibetan proverbs ...
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  • in history. Although knowledge of the literature of Caedmon's time ... as formulaic poet." In Oral literature: Seven essays. Ed. J ...
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  • texts, Rus-Byzantine treaties, and the oral accounts of Yan Vyshatich ... a prime example of the Old East Slavonic literature. No original copies remain; ...
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  • including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, ... by its colorful local bias. Stories and oral epics glorify local heroes ...
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  • is also a notable figure in Pan-African literature, as his Interesting Narrative ... a major figure both in the politics and literature of the Middle Passage. ...
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  • the Yasuda Library, which contained rare literature and Kabuki and Noh books ... Zeami's Atsumori at World Literature Website] Category:Art, music ...
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  • writers and scholars to investigate Native oral and written literary history ... were constructing a distinct national literature. The inclusion of two of ...
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  • Cousins, "Pali oral literature," 7 == Origins and Tradition== ... * Cousins, Lance, "Pali oral literature," in Buddhist Studies ...
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  • cover all genres, from self-help to literature and relaxation. Some have ... drove the length of North America to record oral histories of Native American ...
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  • verse are those found in the oldest literature of many Germanic languages ... of the earliest monuments of Germanic literature. The Golden horns of Gallehus ...
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  • legends, tales, and oral histories. Serrano oral literature is closely linked with the traditions of the Serrano's closest linguistic relatives ...
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  • music and lyrics for the song. In a 1984 oral history interview, he recalled ... Interviewed by the Oral History Department in 1989, Dr. Toh Chin Chye ...
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  • == Forms of midrashic literature == Both halakhic and aggadic midrashim ... source, but are believed to be part of the Oral Law revealed to Moses at Sinai ...
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  • considered to be scripture. Furthermore, oral traditions, such as the Oral ... need not necessarily be unified works of literature. At times they are collections ...
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