Thesis (Ph. D.)--Atatürk Universitesi. / At head of title: Atatürk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi. Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü.

This paper explores how Charles Dickens’s use of a female narrator in Bleak House (1853) fundamentally problematizes and undermines his use of the fairy tale’s cultural cachet, motifs, and characters to prop up and project his fantasies of the feminine ideal. More specifically, it examines the effects of the thematic presence of several tale-types and stock fairy tale figures on Dickens’s ability to prescribe ideal feminine behaviors, such as incuriosity and selfless obedience, to both his characters and his female audience. Because Esther’s ability to write and her interest in either discovering or constructing her own identity establish her as competitor to the males who attempt to script her life, Dickens tries to control and circumscribe her ability to know and act through her own and other characters’ resemblance to traditional fairy tale character types, especially Bluebeard and Griselda. Esther’s narrative, however, betrays these unnatural delimitations in telltale interruptions and denials as Dickens attempts to circumvent the constraints he has placed on her voice. Esther’s narrative therefore resists but imperfectly overcomes the Victorian male author’s scripting of femininity. / text

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In making the point that no story is complete, O'Hagan undermines to varying degrees several dominant and interconnected Western ideologies: idealism, Christianity, patriarchy, class and capitalism. He also shows how a borrowed indigenous myth can be adapted to immigrant needs in a way that will distinguish Canadian novels from others.

Lietuvių liaudies pasakos yra priskiriamos liaudies pedagogikai, jomis siekiama perduoti patirtį, lavinti vaizduotę, skatinti vertybes, suteikti žinių apie pasaulį, parodant ne tik gerąsias, bet ir blogąsias jo puses. Vienos mėgstamiausių vaikų pasakų – stebuklinės pasakos. Lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose dažnai išryškinamos vyro ir moters savybės, jų tarpusavio santykiai, tačiau nėra žinoma kaip pasakose išryškinamus lytiškumo raiškos modelius vertina vaikai ir jų tėvai. Problema – Mažai žinoma kaip lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose išryškinamus lytiškumo raiškos modelius raiškos vertina vaikai ir jų tėvai. Objektas – Požiūris į lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose išryškinamus lytiškumo raiškos modelius. Tyrimo tikslas- Atskleisti kaip lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose išryškinamus lytiškumo raiškos modelius vertina vaikai ir jų tėvai Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1.Aptarti lietuvių liaudies pasakos – kaip metodo reikšmę ugdant lytiškumą. 2.Išryškinti, kokie lytiškumo raiškos modeliai formuojami lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose 3.Atskleisti Lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose ir šiuolaikinėje Lietuvos masinėje žiniasklaidoje formuojamo lytiškumo raiškos modelių panašumus ir skirtumus 4.Išsiaiškinti kaip vaikai interpretuoja lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose išryškinamus lytiškumo raiškos modelius.5.Išsiaiškinti kaip tėvai vertina lietuvių liaudies stebuklinėse pasakose išryškinamus lytiškumo raiškos modelius. Svarbiausios išvados:... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Lithuanian folk Tales are classified to folk pedagogy they promote to transfer experience, cultivate imagination, promote the values, provide knowledge about the world showing not only good but also bad its sides. A favorite tales of children are magic tales. In Lithuanian folk tales often revealed male and female characteristics their relationships but is unknown how sexual expression models in Lithuanian magic tales perceive children and they parents. The problem of research- there is little researched in the literature how sexual expression models in Lithuanian magic tales perceive children and they parents. The aim of research – to reveal how sexual expression models in Lithuanian magic tales perceive children and they parents. The object of research – attitude to sexual expression models in Lithuanian magic tales Objectives: -1. To dispute Lithuania folk tale- like method children sexual cultivate 2.To bring out what sexual expression models are raised in Lithuanian folk tales 3.To reveal similarities and differences of Lithuanian folk tales and modern Lithuanian mass media formed sexual expression models 4.To find out how sexual expression models in Lithuanian folk tales perceive children 5.To find out how sexual expression models in Lithuanian folk tales asses their parents Methods of research: the analysis of scientific literature and other sources, empirical research – questionnaire survey, group interview. Sexual are very important part of the personality... [to full text]

Witnesses believed that the Black Death and subsequent fourteenth-century plagues threatened profound social change. However, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) does not appear to accord the plague a place of any importance in his works. This is especially surprising in the case of the Canterbury Tales , which presents a complex portrait of plague-era society. Chaucer's silence on the plague is reinforced by critical positions that deemphasize the effects of the plague and emphasize Chaucer's supposed lack of interest in his world. This thesis contends that the plague is in fact present in the Canterbury Tales in the guise of the changes that it threatened. By situating the Canterbury Tales in a network of literary and non-literary responses to the plague, I demonstrate that Chaucer participated in a discourse that attempted to restore order to a world that was seen to have been disordered---morally, socially, and physically---by the plague.

This thesis examines the advisory function of the tales of three prophets (Joseph, David and Solomon) in al-Ṭabarī’s (d. 923/310 AH) History and al-Thaʿlabī’s (d. 1025/416) Tales of the Prophets within their religio-political contexts in Baghdād and Nīshāpūr respectively. The hypothesis is that by reading the tales through the prism of Islamic advice literature, in particular the works of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (d. 757 / 139) and Kay Kāʾūs (d. 1084 /476), one sees how these stories convey important ideas about just leadership, friendship and enmity. The thesis, which is based on both a close textual and contextual reading of the tales, contrasts the perspective of the centre (Baghdād), where al-Ṭabarī lived and where caliphal power was situated in the late ninth century, with the view from the edge of the empire (Nīshāpūr), where al-Thaʿlabī lived in a religiously vibrant society. This dissertation, which comprises five chapters, begins by describing the genre of the Tales of the Prophets (Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ) as adab (cultivated literature), because such works recapture pre-Islamic values and adapt them to Muslim contexts. Al-Ṭabarī’s view from the centre with respect to leadership is characterized by its deliberate distance from non-Islamic monarchical images and its suspicion of Ṣūfīsm. Al-Thaʿlabī’s position on the edge, on the other hand, weds royal images with Ṣūfī ideas, while cautioning against the excessive asceticism of the mystical tradition in Nīshāpūr. For leaders at the centre friendship relies on receiving good counsel which has the positive effect of creating stability in the Empire, whereas for leaders on the edge friendship promotes social harmony. Lastly, the centre and the edge both view enmity as emerging from the leaders’ family circle, but they advise leaders to practise diplomacy as jihād in order to win genuine converts. The centre promotes ṣabr (patient endurance) when confronting enmity, while the edge recommends prayer in coping with grief over calamities. Overall, the tales of the prophets are more than stories; they are lessons in leadership.

The thesis consists of an introductory chapter, three chapters of family history and three of tale study, two appendices, the first containing sixteen stories in all known versions and the second seventy eight stories recorded by me, based on field recordings fran Alec, Belle and John Stewart and Willie MacPhee, 1978-84. The introductory chapter examines theories of the origins of Highland travellers and sets out the historical, psychological and aesthetic concerns of the tale study. The family history sets out the material recorded frcm informants. The first chapter deals with Belle's early life in Blairgowrie which is the geographic focus of the family's later history. The second traces the fortunes of the Stewarts in Perthshire and Ireland, showing how they adapted to altered circumstances when they returned to Scotland. The third chapter covers the period since the Second World War, during which Alec's family became well-known through the Folk Revival and their children began to integrate with the settled community and lose their oral culture. The historical tale study shows the links with Gaelic tradition to be found in the story collection. The psychological chapter reveals the functions the stories had in travellers' lives: teaching ancestral wisdom, strengthening kinship ties, reinforcing values, passing on skills for survival, containing fears. The aesthetic chapter looks at the structuring of stories and demonstrates the use of signal words and phrases to guide the listener's ear, as well as giving story tellers a means of recreative transmission. Styles and versions are compared and aesthetic principles deduced frcm the use of different kinds of language and imagery.