Search results for "Oral Literature" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • 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 ...
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  • However, his lasting contribution to Russian literature was the trilogy of historical dramas, modeled after Pushkin's Boris Godunov. His best achievement ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ==Early life== ... which the poems are set and some Fenian literature common in both countries ...
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  • of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Compiled from Finnish ... Finnish folk poetry had long existed in the oral tradition and had ...
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  • Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés ... From around the 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of any religion still in use. Since an oral Vedic tradition continued ... still in use. Most Indologists agree that an oral tradition existed ...
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  • veracity; rather, like imaginative literature, myths present abstract ... becomes "the story" (preliterate oral traditions may vanish as the ...
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  • preserved by the Yurok people. Their oral literature, together with the similar narratives of the Karuk and Hupa, constitutes a distinctive variant ...
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  • .Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami. Readings in Vedic Literature: The Tradition ... ]], of the Vedic literature." ===Historical background=== ...
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  • texts that give us knowledge of this oral tradition. The vast majority ... also remains as an inspiration in modern literature, as well as for other forms ...
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  • designated wayang kulit as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of ... UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible ...
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  • be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. A portion of the work ... behavior in women, superior coition and oral sex, preludes and conclusions ...
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  • of the most important poets in Icelandic literature. He is known today as the ... much of the traditions of Icelandic culture and literature. ...
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  • Fairy tales are found in oral folktale and in literary form. The history ... example of "quickness" in literature, because of the economy ...
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  • Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı or Türk yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish language ...
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  • or Babylonian influences on some of the literature of the Old Testament, and ... * Tradition history—studies biblical literature in terms of the ...
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  • the entire chain of Jewish tradition (as in Oral law), but in reference to ... are sometimes referred to in rabbinical literature as "simaniyot," ...
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  • and distant. Aristotle argued that literature is more interesting as ... Thus, when one reads about Proust's oral emotions reminding him of ...
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  • pericopes as being generated out of the oral transmission of the early ... *Kelber, Werner. The Oral and Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of ...
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  • that has been passed down for centuries in oral or written form. There are ... myths continued to be transmitted through oral traditions such as theater ...
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  • usually undergo a cumulative written and oral examination called the Abitur ... the Ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature. Ministry of Education ...
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  • many have become famous pieces of Arabic literature in their own right. Notable ... who claimed to have heard them in oral form from a Maronite story ...
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  • to have happened, rather than on an oral tradition passed on by eye ... no. 1.) Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007. ISBN 9781589832749 ...
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  • that their positions described in later literature were meant as rhetorical ... including the Pharisaic tenet of an Oral Torah. The Sadducees interpreted ...
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  • written document. If Q were merely a shared oral tradition, it could not account ... a Juggernaut," Journal of Biblical Literature 115 (1996): 667-681. ...
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  • Literature in Burkina Faso is based on the oral tradition, which remains important. In 1934, during French occupation, Dim-Dolobsom Ouedraogo ...
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  • * Oral sources: To what extent did each evangelist or literary collaborator ... draw from personal knowledge, eyewitness accounts, liturgy, or other ...
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  • in 2005 by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ... the Ly dynasty, including the Temple of Literature, One-pillar pagoda, and ...
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  • be more ancient than most other biblical literature. While he remains an enigmatic ... * Olrik, Axel. Principles for Oral Narrative Research. Translated ...
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  • Tlingit Oratory.” Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature. vol. 2. Seattle: University of Washington. 1990. * Emmons, George T., and Thornton, George ...
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  • hours of schooling. French language and literature occupy the most time, four ... rests mainly on competitive written and oral exams, undertaken by students ...
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  • folklorists, readings of non-Western oral literature are, I suppose, about ... elders and the few people that recorded the oral stories that there is any ...
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  • such as Mombasa. Historically, Swahili literature first flowered in the northern ... forms, meanings: essays in African oral literature, 22-30. ...
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  • with some notable exceptions, less as literature than as vehicles for its ... Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ...
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  • Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition (Norman, OK: University ... quot;real people." The ethnographic literature sometimes refers to the ...
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  • education in religious sciences, literature, and poetry. After the ... be determined by referring to a hadith (oral tradition) which had been ...
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  • tales, and up to the present day in modern literature. While many of ... The précieuses took up the oral tradition of such tales to write ...
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  • Africa—with their rich tradition of oral storytelling, had an ear for ... things have written books about her and her literature. ...
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  • its adat. These stories are derived from an oral history which was transmitted ... === Oral traditions and literature === [[Image:Minangkabau wedding ...
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  • Gillian. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 7619317252 ...
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  • by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ... to be proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ...
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  • Bronchial asthma in the medical literature of Greek antiquity] J Asthma ... air pollution from newsprint and other literature such as junk mail leaflets ...
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  • the fact that they were handed down as an oral form of storytelling, sometimes ... *Humor: Fables are a didactic mode of literature; that is their primary ...
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  • lasting legacy. Their patronage of Tamil literature and their zeal in building ... Chola Dynasty. Mention in ancient Tamil literature and in inscriptions provides ...
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  • of these sources were informed by various oral traditions known to their authors. ... to law and judgment. Traditional Jewish literature cites this concept frequently. ...
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  • initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition, though they ... influence on the culture, arts and literature of Western civilization ...
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  • goal of life. Most Indian philosophical literature is directed towards the ... took place during this period. The literature of this period, though ...
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  • == Matriarchies in literature == The turn-of-the-century mythology ... #039;s historical revisions of Arthurian literature and the Trojan War; to ...
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