Folklore

Karnad takes myth as a faith builder for individual’s spiritual evolution. He uses folklore to connect the magic and reality and history as a positive concept to analyse life and society. The past is not always dead for Karnad. Karnad uses myth in his plays to express meaning for the contemporary life. He believes that the significance

In the piece “Yours, Mine, or Ours?, Donald Haase discusses on the ownership of fairytales. Fairy Tales originate from folklore, described as traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practices that are passed on in large part through oral communication. With fairytale's being passed down through generations its new ‘authors’ take ownership of them. Ownership impacts the reception of the fairytale and determines how the audience reads and interprets it. Haase discuss how fairytales are suppose

important function in the lives of people. Pre-modern children literature books is an example of literature which is traced to ancient story tellers. Early history of children's stories was primarily oral literature and consisted of folktales, folklores, poems and songs. This genre of children's literature has continued to evolve over time. This essay seeks to enumerate and elaborate on the following: why children should read literature books written before 1950. differences between pre-modern

Folklores have entertained and educated the masses since the dawn of time. These old time stories, passed down through generations, spread laughter, tears, and cautious life lessons. Because of their cultural value, folklores perpetuate the submissiveness of women and their reduced roles in a patriarchal society. One folktale that does this is Bluebeard, an old story from France. Bluebeard tells the tale of a woman who marries the titular character, a wealthy and successful man who has a blue beard

oral cultures and hence, their scope and development of thoughts and ideas are, to some extent, limited. Yet, that does not detract the importance and role of oral tradition in our day to day lives. Folk oral tradition and culture which include folklores, myths and legends have, lately proved to be significant sources of writing history not only in this part of the globe but also in other parts of the world as

Mythology is many different peoples or religions way of explaining certain things and happenings like why echoes are caused. The story that only has echo in it and no narcissus is that the god Juno decided to take away echoes ability to ask questions or engage in conversations and over time echoes body withered away leaving only her voice to repeat what someone says. Some cultures have many gods like japan who have kami who are not gods of faith but rather of landscape, specific weather or objects

So the Bhakti movement leads the religious performances while secular performances are often based on folk idioms and beliefs. The religious performances are often very polished performances because of the religious subject matter and it needs much attention in the performance while on the other hand the secular performance contains some dialogues in the form of double layered meaning and a little bit of vulgarity on stage by nata or vidushika. In the matter of adopting the dramatic techniques, religious

Summer Project On ‘Influence of Urban Legends on Various Art forms Of 21st Century ’ In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Award of Degree of B.A. Hons. English - 3 Submitted By: Supervised By: Annant Gaur Dr. Smita Mishra A0706113077 Asst. Professor Amity Institute of English Studies and Research AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH India DECLARATION Date: 30.7.2014 I, Annant Gaur, student of B.A. Hons

The belief in mythical creatures has been circling in the minds of humans for ages. Many people throughout history even claimed to have evidence of a large variety of these creatures. A mythical creature is a type of animal or hybrid. For centuries, humans have been inspired by animals and fossils to create fascinating stories about intriguing creatures. These fantasies were not confined to just one area but originated from all over the world. Mythical creatures are often hybrids of types of animals

“Myths are the expression of the primordial images in the collective unconscious of man. In the beginning man had certain experiences and received them in their psyche in the form of images. Since they are the first images they are called archetypes of the collective unconscious.” The above cited paragraph is the opinion of Carl Gustav Jung (qtd. in Trivedi). According to Jung the unconscious patterns of age old impressions play a prominent part in the production of literature. They serve to gauge