Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Folklore"
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Cantando con el diablo en la frontera: variaciones, voces y silencios en los llanos de Colombia y Venezuela
(2021-09-09)Esta disertación se centra en las narrativas sobre el duelo musical contra el diablo presentes en la producción literaria, oral y musical de la región fronteriza de los Llanos de Colombia y Venezuela. El análisis se centra ... -
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora
(2017-05-08)This dissertation focuses on the music and dance practices of Greek refugee and migrant families from the historical region of Aeolia or Western Anatolia (the Aegean coast of present-day Turkey and the island of Lesvos), ... -
The Fenian Narrative Corpus, c.600–c.2000: A Reassessment
(2015-05-11)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 ... -
Reading With the Ear: Oral Narrative Dynamics as Textual Rhetoric in Ming Vernacular Short Fiction
(2023-11-21)This dissertation attempts a new reading of the earliest of the Ming-dynasty texts known as huaben - prosimetric short stories written in a vernacularized idiom that imitate the narrative mode of oral storytelling - by ...