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This study investigates the responses of contemporary South African, Grade one children to threshold experiences in Grimm fairy tales and African Zulu folk tales. Thresholds involve an exciting or challenging experience, or a transformation in stories. Three stories from each genre were read over six sessions, to ten diverse black and white children, from one school. The children’s enjoyment was assessed, with focus on their backgrounds and previous knowledge, to help find beneficial reading for them. Results suggested that while gender of characters and story origins did not seem important, story length, humour, entertainment and educational ability, as well as personal involvement, were useful. The study supported the notion that stories are generally universal and could help bridge our cultural divide. Reader-Response theory was used and its principles helped to structure questions for the interviews, and to analyse data. Hopefully, the findings will help to select appropriate texts for all children beginning school in present-day South Africa.

My thesis includes a collection of short stories that showcases my growth and potential as a fiction writer. The thesis also includes a critical introduction that highlights my aims and the influences on my work. My introduction seeks to establish the overarching purpose of creative work. Specifically, I focus on how my work reflects the theme of using projection as a defense mechanism to cope with internal and external crises that force characters to deal with undesirable situations or aspects of their personality. The introduction then expounds on the commonly accepted Freudian definition of ?projection,? as well as the related Jungian ?shadow.? Both of these psychoanalytic concepts are closely linked to the doppelg�nger. To expound on the tradition of using these concepts in literature, I list works that employ these themes and dispute the traditional association of such themes with invariably tragic endings. Next, I attempt to explode the common assumption that links projection to dysfunction by pointing to both maladaptive and adaptive uses of projection. I point out that people can project both negative and positive aspects of their personality onto outside entities with both positive and negative consequences. I then detail examples from my stories that reflect these uses of projection. I go on to further expand the definition of ?projection? by challenging the notion that people only project aspects of their personality onto other people and that this is a strictly psychological process, providing additional examples from my work. Finally, I illuminate how my stories seek to reevaluate the common assumption that the doppelg�nger and the ?shadow? are figures that foreshadow destructive outcomes. Next, I move on to a discussion of the specific research methods and influences of each story, drawing on literary works and personal reasons for exploring my topics. I also mention how previous study has fueled my work on the themes in these stories. The stories themselves are products of my purpose and research. My conclusion relates how these stories reflect my theme and purpose and how they shaped my growth as a writer.

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"You Cannot Chase Two Antelopes at the Same Time" will teach your child(ren) the invaluable lesson of determination and focus. This heart-warming story about the courage and determination of a little boy and his sister who set out to chase two antelopes unsuccessfully, extracts in a vivid illustrative style, the important character trait of determination and focus. The little boy and girl set out to accomplish an impossible task and try different approaches, but to no avail. They finally figured out that in life some pursuits are too delicate to focus on multiple things at the same time. The vivid imagery of antelopes and their incredible sense of swiftness will thrill, entertain and motivate your children. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1080/thumbnail.jpg

Charlotte and Emily Brontë both incorporate folk traditions into their novels, which help define and complicate notions of class and identity in their work. This thesis examines the folklore of the novels, including customs, folktales, and material folk culture, and explores how these elements work within the worlds created by the Brontës. While scholars such as Micael Clarke, Lauren Lepow, and Heta Pyrhönen have established the presence of folk tale, ballad, and supernatural motifs in the Brontës’ work, few have discussed the ways in which folk culture, in particular, underscores the notions of class and identity.

This research examines the impact of paired folk tales and science explanations on students in third through sixth grades who viewed program modules from the SkyTeller Project of Lynn Moroney and the Lunar and Planetary Institute of Houston, Texas. The audience consisted of over 3500 students in eight locations in the United States. Because few quantitative studies have been conducted to examine the use of stories in science education, the development of an instrument to assess students' attitudes toward science and stories forms a major part of this research. During the final stage of testing, the revised instrument and methods found significant increase in positive attitude toward science after the presentations. Questionnaires, telephone calls, and on-site visits with program presenters and teachers confirmed quantitative results. Despite the difficulties of conducting large-scale studies and the traditionally small response compliance, quantitative assessment can provide useful information for evaluating storytelling media.

Misturando o mundano ao universo maravilhoso, esta pesquisa não só objetivou quebrar a barreira entre realidade fantasia, mas também acabou por revelar histórias profundamente humanas. / Merging the mundane and the marvellous universe, the research not only aimed to break the reality/fantasy barrier, but also ended up revealing deep human stories.

Thesis (M.A. (English Studies)) --University of Limpopo, 2012 / The mini dissertation seeks to explore the positive and negative qualities of an indigenous African leader as presented in a variety of oral texts including folktales, proverbs and praise poems as well as in the African novels of Mhudi, Maru, Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood in order to deduce an indigenous African concept of a leader. This research is motivated by the fact that although researchers and academics worldwide acknowledge that it is very difficult to objectively define and discuss the terms ‘leader’ and ‘indigenous leader’ yet many tend to dismiss offhand such indigenous concepts of leadership as ubuntu as primitive, barbaric and irrelevant to modern institutions without examining them in detail.

Submitted by RAQUEL DE VASCONCELOS CANTARELLI null (kel.cantarelli@bol.com.br) on 2017-07-19T00:52:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Leituras celtas-mito e folclore em contos maravilhosos.pdf: 2204140 bytes, checksum: b811b164725b791febbc8c95b46a07c0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-07-19T16:25:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 cantarelli_rv_dr_arafcl.pdf: 2204140 bytes, checksum: b811b164725b791febbc8c95b46a07c0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-19T16:25:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cantarelli_rv_dr_arafcl.pdf: 2204140 bytes, checksum: b811b164725b791febbc8c95b46a07c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nesta tese realizamos análises morfológicas e socioculturais de contos maravilhosos celtas, que à época de seus registros, encontravam-se em circulação nas tradições orais da Irlanda, Escócia e Ilha de Man. Aqui serão estudadas narrativas de diferentes organizações estruturais, com o objetivo de delimitarmos as principais diferenças formais e de conteúdo veiculados, seja pela presença de temas distintos, explícitos ou implícitos, ou nos modos de abordagem dos mesmos temas. Entretanto, procuramos também salientar as semelhanças mantidas por todas essas formas narrativas, as quais nem sempre são evidentes, principalmente quando relacionadas às funções proppianas e às práticas socioculturais nelas refletidas. A diferença estrutural entre os contos analisados exigiu uma combinação de diretrizes para que obtivéssemos maior precisão nas descrições morfológicas obtidas, assim, empregamos os modelos de Propp (2006), Bremond (2011) e Greimas (COURTÉS, 1979), os quais corroboraram a função de cada elemento, além de complementarem-se mutuamente, a partir de perspectivas diversas. A concepção proppiana torna-se essencial para o tipo de análise sociocultural proposta, ao remeter suas funções aos rituais tribais primais. Contudo, por ser específico aos contos de magia, certas organizações narrativas necessitaram ser delimitadas a partir dos outros dois modelos, de modo a conseguirmos remetê-las, posteriormente, às funções proppianas, ou mesmo a fragmentos delas que, de outro modo, passariam despercebidos. A partir dos resultados das análises morfológicas, partimos para as análises socioculturais, elucidando a origem de seus motivos e as formas de pensamento que engendraram os contos, isolando-os dos elementos regionalmente condicionados. Por último, esclarecemos os resultados obtidos por comparação com o conto de magia, enfatizando os fatores sociais envolvidos na composição das diferentes estruturas apresentadas, identificando suas diferenças e elementos que constituem padrões compartilhados por todos eles. Com isso, esperamos demonstrar a natureza interna desses contos, bem como as peculiaridades das narrativas populares gaélicas. Isso será realizado, nas análises morfológicas, identificando seus constituintes fundamentais, e nas análises socioculturais, com ênfase em seus aspectos míticos e folclóricos, tanto de caráter universal como específicos. O corpus é formado de dez narrativas, originalmente registradas na língua inglesa, uma vez que, à época, a língua gaélica já havia sido extirpada, em grande medida, dessas regiões. / This thesis develops morphological and sociocultural analyses of Celtic folk tales which were part of the oral traditions of Ireland, Scotland and Isle of Man by the time they were registered. We have studied narratives which feature diverse types of structural organizations to determine the main differences between them, considering both their form and contents and the manners they treat the same subjects or different ones, being them explicitly or implicitly expressed. We also intend to evince the similarities of narrative organization, which are not always so obvious, mainly when related to the Proppian functions and the social practices reflected by them. The structural deviances of such tales have demanded the use of three theoretical guidelines in order to provide a precise description of their morphology, which are the Proppian model (2006), the Bremondian model (2011) and the Greimasian model (COURTÉS, 1979), so that the elements are corroborated and complemented by considering different perspectives. The Proppian model is essential regarding the nature of the sociocultural analyses proposed here, related to tribal rituals and myths. However, being the Proppian model specific for the so called magic tales, the description of other kinds of narrative organization must be reached by means of the other two models. After that, we refer their results to the Proppian functions, or at least parts of them, so that they can be found even inside complex situations. From the obtained results, we proceed to the sociocultural analysis, elucidating the origin of motifs and ways of thinking which gave rise to the folk tale themes. Finally, we elucidate the results by means of comparisons to the magic tales, emphasizing the social factors involved in the composition of distinct types of tales, by identifying their differences and also the elements which are shared by all of them as a standard. Thereby, we intend to demonstrate the internal nature of those tales and their peculiarities originated inside the Goidelic culture. This is reached by means of the morphological analyses, where their fundamental elements are identified, and by the sociocultural analyses, where mythical and folkloric elements are emphasized, having them either universal or specific features. All narratives presented were originally registered in English, since the Goidelic language had already been extirpated from most of those regions.