Tha Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights constitute‚ in Marina Warner’s words‚ "a polyvocal anthology of world myths‚ fables and fairytales". The antecedents of these Arab-Islamic texts (also known as The Thousand and One Nightsand the Arabian Nights Entertainments) are Qur’anic‚ Biblical‚ Indian‚ Persian‚ Mesopotamian‚ Greek‚ Turkish and Egyptian. In them‚ oral and written traditions‚ poetry and prose‚ demotic folk tales and courtly high culture mutate and interpenetrate. In their long lifetime the Nights have
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“I’m tired of trying to see the good in people.” Bellowed‚ Xmare‚ with such intensity that each syllable reverberates off the walls. Without provocation‚ he shouts it again and again as he sat alone in his office. After his outburst‚ he went back to organizing the paper clutter on his desk. Less than a second later he heard a voice whisper‚ “I must say Sir‚ that’s a peculiar statement for a humanoid to utter.” Startled‚ Xmare a Class A‚ violet eyes‚ short red hair humanoid‚ jumped to his feet
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Today I’d like to tell you about fantasy literature. It is very hard to tell all about it but I’ll try to do it as good as possible and not being boring. First fantasy motifs were shown in romanticism. We all know the mystical and unreal characters: ghosts‚ phantoms etc. Authors for building the special mood and charm of that epoch used that figures. But fantasy is something more than romantic ways of showing nature or inner experiences of the main character in the novel. It’s
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Harry potter and British Culture Since the release of the first novel‚ Harry Potter and the Philosopher ’s Stone (titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ’s Stone in the United States) in 1997‚ the books have gained an immense popularity and commercial success worldwide. They have collectively sold more than 300 million copies and have been translated into more than 63 languages. Harry has succeeded to seduced children and teenagers as well as adults. In 2001‚ the first book has been adapted on
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An Unexpected Journey in SUBIC Bay Freeport Zone Have you watched the movie “Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey”‚ this is a hit movie of 2012 where a hobbit had an unexpected visitor from Gandalf and he was forced to join to a group of dwarves to conquer the old Castle of the Dwarves. It is like the same story that our instructor and a Licensed Customs Broker‚ Ms. Joyce Ann Valdez‚ led as to experience‚ in one of the most challenging subjects in the study of Customs Administration. The CUS04
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The Hero’s Journey: Archetypes and The Monomyth 1) ARCHETYPE - From the Greek word “arkhetupos” meaning exemplary or ideal;; an original model or template after which other things are patterned - IN PSYCHOLOGY: Psychologist Carl Jung’s idea of universal archetypes relates to the recurring pattern of beliefs‚ situations‚ characters‚ stories and/or symbols existing around the world in the collective unconscious of humanity - A “Perfect Type” of something upon which
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entitled The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien because of several reasons as follows: first‚ the novel talks about The Hobbit (Bilbo Baggins) as the main character who is a young hobbit that disturbed from his peaceful life by the arrival of the mysterious wizard Gandalf and a troop of thirteen dwarves. They have come to pluck the easy-going Bilbo Baggins from his sleepy life in the Shire to take him to a dragon’s den‚ Smaug the
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Policing Fantasy: Problems of Genre in Fantasy Literature By Svein Angelskår A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature Area Studies and European Languages The University of Oslo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements For the MA Degree Autumn Term 2005 2 Table of Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS:......................................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION ................................................
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Robert Browning and the Dramatic Monologue Celebratons honoring the bi-centennial of Robert Browning’s birth are taking place on each side of the Atlantic. In late June‚ a conference sponsored by the Browning Society of London focused on a particular aspect of Browning’s work–the dramatic monologue. For those who are unfamiliar with the term‚ the following definition is offered. M. H. Abrams‚ one of the general editors of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and a respected American critic
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ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM & PSYCOANALYTIC CRITICSM A. ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM The term archetypal comes from the Greek word arche (beginning) and typos (imprint). But as linguistically‚ the term arch is an adjective means literally “chief” or “principal” and prefix types that can be meant “highest” or “important.” Walker (2002:17) argued that archetypes are unconscious principles to returning images‚ symbols‚ or patterns. Thus statement can be explained that an author when make a literary work sometime
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