Search results for "Oral Literature" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- to examine the religious beliefs and oral traditions of African peoples ... Much of the literature about African philosophy is taken up with a ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian ... a dark age in the nation's literature, though Norwegian-born ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- Perrault published several tales from the oral tradition that he modified ... French language, dealing with children's literature. ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- B.C.E.). However, based as it is on older oral traditions, its antecedents ... One of the most influential Sanskrit contributions to world literature ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- focal point of eighteenth-century English literature. authors of non-fiction in all of English literature. ==Life== ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- motifs (the Nibelungensaga), which include oral traditions and reports based ... quot;original" version, likely because oral tradition had a continuing ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ... In view of the long period of oral tradition during which the ambush ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... too, have the foci of African American literature. Before the American Civil ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- by UNESCO as a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible heritage of ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 132851706 ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- phase of the higher examination should be oral or written became a hot topic ... of which the successful applicants came, an oral examination tested the applicants ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- However, his lasting contribution to Russian literature was the trilogy of historical dramas, modeled after Pushkin's Boris Godunov. His best achievement ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- and easily the most important work of literature written in that language ... to receive praise as a great work of literature comparable to the classical ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ==Early life== ... which the poems are set and some Fenian literature common in both countries ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Compiled from Finnish ... Finnish folk poetry had long existed in the oral tradition and had ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés ... From around the 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- of several non-Jewish tribes. Rabbinical literature holds that he was the first ... of the law, which are called the Oral Torah, were originally unwritten ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- of any religion still in use. Since an oral Vedic tradition continued ... still in use. Most Indologists agree that an oral tradition existed ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- veracity; rather, like imaginative literature, myths present abstract ... becomes "the story" (preliterate oral traditions may vanish as the ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- preserved by the Yurok people. Their oral literature, together with the similar narratives of the Karuk and Hupa, constitutes a distinctive variant ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
