Oral literature

Essay From this semester’s reading I found that many of them have their own significant role or theme to help inform, entertain, and teach us about some historical context. In my essay I will show you the relevance and importance of three pieces that we have read this semester which include, “Remarks Concerning the Savages” by Benjamin Franklin, “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine and finally “Native American oral Literature” by Timothy Powell. In some cases, these texts may intertwine to help further are understanding and come up with new interpretations or ideas for their relevance. To start out I think my favorite reading form this semester was the Remarks Concerning the Savages, though I think that every piece of literature that we…

times that now it is a stigma that precedes Indians. Even though, it is not proven this definition and reputation of Indians is associated with them. The oral tradition is challenging by the fact that it is based on people’s memories and their ability to relate facts with accuracy. This might be a reality for those who have oral tradition in their culture because the storyteller position is a huge responsibility. Despite the physical distance between the two cultures, Africans have an oral…

literacy intermingled with orality, and since then the literate world has never cast the oral world away. How Things Are is essentially the most recent stop in the long journey that is How Things Were in Between, and perhaps it will always be. Nevertheless, this paper provide…

A world without literature is an illiterate world. Literature is an art and the word itself is “derived from the Latin litteratura meaning "writing formed with letters," literature most commonly refers to works of the creative imagination, including poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and in some instances, song” (Lombardi, Esther). “World literature as we know it today would not exist without the nourishment of oral traditions” (Puchner, Martin). Oral traditions are stories of which…

The Importance of Literary and Communicative Enhancement Courses for Engineering Students at the University of Saskatchewan Technical professionals, such as engineers, are required to be able to communicate both through oral and written communication. For this reason, students attending the College of Engineering, at the University of Saskatchewan, should be required to take courses in literature and communication to qualify for graduation. These courses can help students to improve their…

Evaluating the Intertwining of First Native Culture and Indigenous Literature: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse In English literature a formalist movement in the mid 20th century that emphasized the relationship between a text’s idea and its form - known as New Criticism - continues to strongly influence modern academic writing. New Criticism specifies that the object of study ought to be the text itself, not the response or the motivation of its author or readers. Rarely do New Criticism texts…

writings—including letters, diaries, testimonies, oral histories, etc.—is a literary genre that successfully mediates the personal and the documentary, the contemporary immediacy and the broader history. This second position paper is an extension of the first one, looking into the tricky nature of autobiographical texts as a fragmentary literary genre. It argues that while fragmentary writings are famously celebrated in postmodernist thoughts for its potential to break through authority, it can…

The Imaginary and Silence: An Analysis of Ballad Poetry and Coleridge No poetic style within the context of the Romantic Tradition of English Literature emphasizes individual experience, nor glorifies the past and nature, quite like the Ballad. This literary tradition hearkens back to civilization before the invention of the written language and the medium of orality through which man publishes authentic creation. While conventional ballads, such as Beowulf or Robin Hood remain authorless or as…

Adkins, Lesley, and Roy A. Adkins. "Literature in Ancient Greece." Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece, Updated Edition. Facts On File, 2005. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Web. 21 Oct. 2015. As for science, literature did not exist as much. According to Adkins “Only a small amount of literature survives, including the names of over 370 playwrights, 44 complete plays, and titles and fragments of more than 1,600 other plays.” Greek literature commenced with poetry and was told as oral epic…

Not only are Morrison’s novels especially rich in participatory oral forms like fables but she has extended her use of fables and folktales beyond her novels and into her speeches (Middleton 64 ). In 1993, Morrison became the first African-American women to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature award and in her acceptance speech The Nobel Lecture in Literature she decided to retell a story, a fable heard in many cultures around the world ( The Nobel Lecture in Literature 198 ). The story is about…