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The lion and the mouse
A retelling of the well-known fable in which a little mouse saves the life of the King of Beasts. Includes a word puzzle and reading tips for parents.
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Leonine imagery in C.S. Lewis’s series : the Chronicles of Narnia
Throughout the centuries, lion images have figured prominently in literature, art, heraldry and statuary. In Chinese art, for instance, lions appear more predominantly than dragons as guardians of buildings and temples, whereas across Europe, warriors surged across continents conquering under the image of the roaring lion emblazoned on their monarchs’ flags. Furthermore, numerous cultures and religious traditions symbolically embody their rulers, both divine and temporal, using leonine imagery. Through an investigation of this imagic representation, this article will explore the selection of the lion, Aslan, as the spiritual depiction of the Christ-figure in C.S. Lewis’ series The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Lions
\"For philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kári Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. Each of these short texts, sparkling with erudition and humor, is devoted to a peculiar leonine presence, or, in many cases, absence, in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and politics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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'He Who is a Devourer of Things': Monstrosity and the Construction of Difference in |Xam Bushman Oral Literature
Representations of hunter-gatherer pasts are often stymied by the difficulties of escaping colonial depictions. Explorations of hunter-gatherer historicity require an understanding of their axes of social differentiation, deployed in processes of persuasion, coercion, and judgement. This article discusses the presentation of the 'monstrous' in the oral literature of the |Xam Bushmen, nineteenth-century hunter-gatherers of the Northern Cape (South Africa). Drawing on the Bleek-Lloyd archive, it examines the characteristics that these people considered emblematic of the grotesque, and discusses the ways in which these figures were deployed to create social pressures enjoining people to behave in particular ways. The article looks at how these notions were used by |Xam individuals to characterize and understand their interactions with an internally differentiated |Xam society, and with non-|Xam groups.
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The Story of \!Khwe // na ssho !kui who Brought Home a Young Lion to Use as a Dog\: Character, Identity and Knowledge in a /Xam Narrative
This paper discusses several aspects of a /Xam Bushman story in which a man brings home a lion cub and insists that it is a dog. The paper seeks to demonstrate that the text is capable of eliciting a range of important critical questions. It argues that the call to exegesis is inherent in most forms of literature, including those that are often treated as folklore or mythology. The paper suggests that there are several aspects of the story that accord with current critical concerns. It concentrates on just two of these: the tension between character and identity in the text and the different modes of knowledge that are present in it. The paper does not attempt to provide an exhaustive or authoritative analysis of the story. Instead it contends that the interpretative possibilities in /Xam literature are more extensive than some of the ways in which it is read would suggest.
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Performing Chineseness
This article attempts to explore how individuals of Chinese descent maintain, negotiate, and re-create their multiple and often competing ethnicity of being “Chinese” through the Chinese lion dance as a cultural performance in the multicultural context of Newfoundland, Canada. My findings suggest that individuals of Chinese descent in Newfoundland, due to their regional, generational, and other categorical differences, perceive of the role of lion dance as a cultural marker in various ways, so that the cultural performance often serves as an open and multivocal forum for the discussion of ethnicity. During this intensive negotiation, a new diasporic identity and culture emerge.
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N//àe (\Talking\): The Oral and Rhetorical Base of San Culture
Like many other small-scale hunter-gatherers, the San (or Bushmen) of southern Africa have a vibrant oral culture and a society that is structurally loose. After first showing the multiple ways in which orality is manifest within the various institutional domains of San culture, the article examines the connection between orality and structural looseness. It is argued that, in playing itself out in San sociality, orality both underscores the looseness and ambiguity of San society and ideology and mitigates these characteristics. It does so by acting as a social and expressive mechanism of culture that engages people and resolves issues and conflicts, creates diversion and enjoyment, and shapes people's understanding of the world.
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Ectors saga: An Arthurian Pastiche in Classical Guise
The translations of French Arthurian literature in the North did not generate original Arthurian compositions in Iceland. The late medieval Ectors saga, however, may be considered an Arthurian romance, inasmuch as the author adapted motifs and episodes from Arthurian literature for a plot driven by a knight's search for adventure. (MK)
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\Quia Ego Nominor Leo\: Barthes, Stereotypes, and Aesop's Animals
Taking Barthes's discussion of Aesop's lion as a starting point, this essay examines two uses to which the animals of philosophy and critical theory have been put: as ciphers and as indices. The twin dangers to theory's beasts, of becoming either examples of a deadening, generic \"animal\" or stultifying stereotypes, are assessed and potential solutions proposed.
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Motifs in \The Arabian Nights\ and in Ancient and Medieval European Literature: A Comparison
This paper is a contribution to the ongoing debate about the origins of parallel motifs in The Arabian Nights and in ancient and medieval popular and learned literature about exotic lands of the East. This preliminary survey focuses on seven related motifs: the magnetic mountain, the congealed sea, flying griffins, automata and genies, the mysterious walled city, the living island, and the underground river. This paper is intended as a contribution toward a motif-Index of The Arabian Nights in order to facilitate further comparative study of the motifs involved.
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