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From:Poetry for Students (Vol. 11. )Much of the poetry written in the latter half of the twentieth century has been lyric poetry. Lyric poetry, by its very definition, is short and focuses on the subjective thoughts and emotions of the speaker. For lyric...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStorytelling is essentially a communal practice transferring, across generations, cultural notions, norms, and values. However, in the study of storytelling practices in African societies, the empirical focus and...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"In the olden times when wishes still had power, there once was a king whose daughters were all beautiful; yet the youngest of them was so beautiful that the sun who had seen much was enchanted each time he saw her...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 84, Issue 3)As Beverly and I walked down the sodden creekside trail, sounds of traffic from Interstate 84 behind us became the sound of Latourell Falls ahead of us. The transition was complete when the creek bent east, opening to a...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLeslie Marmon Silko's works illustrate the storytelling customs of Native Americans and their use of flowery words and phrases to enrich the content of their stories. They also reveal the Native American's deep passion...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDEAR__, Our shared enthusiasm for To the Wonder puts us at odds with most of the world. Certainly the critical consensus stands against it. Have you read some of those reviews? What is it that we see in this film...
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From:Journal of American Folklore (Vol. 129, Issue 512) Peer-ReviewedThis article interrogates the cultural politics of a series of storytelling performances in Jerusalem in light of an ongoing "revival" of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish heritage in Israel. An examination of performers'...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 144, Issue 5255-5256)I wish I'd written that, but it was Dylan Thomas in his introduction to Collected Poems 1934-52. I want to say something about creativity and art--their nature, their power--drawing on what I've learned over a life...
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From:English in Africa (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIf questioned about their familiarity with African folk tales, many adult white South Africans would in all likelihood recall reading or hearing such tales as children. More specifically, their recollections of the...
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From:The Faulkner Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the winter of 1920, Faulkner completed his most comprehensive artistic production to date, the symbolist dream play The Marionettes, a unique creation that combined his dual interests of art and poetry in a form that...
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From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedVisual storytelling plays a fundamental role in contemporary art and culture. Staged photography, with its fictional and theatrical nature, turns into an accurate metaphor of photography as "mirror of reality", since it...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 64, Issue 1-3) Peer-ReviewedI. A few years ago I published a book of folklore titled Tracks along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture. Even though people call it a biography I never thought of it like that. I imagined I was...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen my debut book, a story collection, was nearing its publication date, my publicist--a woman I'd met once--sent me a list of questions. My answers to these questions would be included in the press kit submitted to...
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From:Appalachian Heritage (Vol. 40, Issue 3)What little work exists from the short and tragic life of Breece Pancake has garnered an unprecedented amount of attention and praise from the literary world since his first publication in 1977 (Douglass xii). The...
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From:Biography (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLifestory-sharing sites have never been as popular as today. These sites interpret the act of "sharing" life stories as a form of communal endeavor, and argue that publicly shared life stories will lead to more...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI am going to call this one "Nightshift," although I'm not sure how orderly it is, or how strictly it keeps to the alternation between night and day. Or even if it "works." (What would that mean?) But there is something...
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From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 27) Peer-ReviewedThis article deals with Muhammad 'Afifi Matar's children's stories, tracing the roots of their conception and the ideas behind their themes. It analyzes a number of representative tales that outline Matar's ideas on...
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From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 19, Issue 3)My father tells me a story: When he was young, he and his cousin Corky took the train from Buffalo to Cleveland to see a major league baseball game. The day was hot and the interior of the train car even hotter. He and...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 1)What I remember, mostly, is the orange tag. It had no place for a name--just ER VISITOR printed in sharp uppercase letters, so that's who I became. For three days, I hid the neon orange beneath the blue stripes of my...
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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article represents an attempt to re-examine the tradition of classical literary tales in China, understanding them not as "literature" but as products of amateur oral storytelling that took place in elite circles....