Indarapatra and Sulayman A Filipino – Mindanawon Epic Author * There is no permanent author attributed to this epic * Even the date for this epic has no tentative or permanent approximation * It is written so that it will not be revised through generations and passed mouth-to-mouth Indarapatra & Sulayman is attributed to... * the Philippines‚ specifically in the southern major island‚ Mindanao * Mindanao is called The Land of Promise * Mindanao is the only area of the Philippines with
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During the course of this week‚ I continued by study of Roland Blythe’s(1999) Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. During the week I examined the opening “oral history” (Abrams‚ 2009‚ p.3) of five lifelong Akenfield residents aptly labeled‚ “the survivors”(Blythe‚ 1999‚ p.31) because they had survived both the war and the agricultural norms of their day. This was followed by a survey of religious life in Akenfield through a conversation with six people ranging from the village doctor‚ and orchard
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The Theme of Father/Son Relationships in Beowulf & The Song of Roland Thomas Lazzaro Professor Fisher Literary Patterns of European Development Paper #1 2/6/97 The representation of father-son type relationships in early Medieval literary works is a key theme early authors used to give their works more depth and meaning. Two works that use the theme of father-son relationships are Beowulf and The Song of Roland. In Beowulf‚ the relationship between Hrothgar and Beowulf is one in which there
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The film depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming‚ by utulising various cinematic techniques in order to convey the intensity of the movies plot. In most cases of large scale natural disasters‚ many long shots are used in order to completely capture the elements of the scene. By applying panning wide angles with the stunning computer generated imagery the scenes emphasise the scale in which the natural disaters occur. Due to the films plot‚ the majority of scenes invovling wide angle shots
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The characters in The Song of Roland at first glance often seem strange to modern eyes. They are obsessed with honor‚ prone to sudden outbursts of emotion and seem to enjoy splitting their enemies from nasal to navel just a bit too much. Upon closer reading‚ however‚ patterns begin to emerge from their actions. Their obsession with honor comes from a fierce devotion to familial and feudal prestige; their emotional outpourings are the expressions of a “noble knight”1‚ and their ferocity in battle
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In examining the Song of Roland‚ the notes of Gloria K Fiero were use. During the reign of King Charlemagne‚ epic stories were used to entice warriors before they went to war. The Song of Roland is just one of those epic yet dramatic stories that was used to get a desired effect. In the paragraphs below I will be looking at a different heroic deeds that honored a warrior‚ his lord and his religion. An example of heroic deeds that honored warriors is " my lord noble lord‚ I pray you
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Introduction Originating in the study of languages‚ structuralism has exerted a vast amount of influence in the social sciences especially in the work of Saussure‚ Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Although these theorists may disagree with the exact view of structuralism‚ there is‚ on the other hand‚ a broad consensus that a structuralist approach to the study of human society and culture involves the notion of wholes. The purpose of this essay will be to develop the points of structuralism and
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1. In a paragraph of roughly 100 words‚ summarize Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes’s central arguments in “What is an Author?” and “The Death of the Author.” Your goal is to capture the overarching argument‚ the big picture. Often‚ you will recognize the central argument when the rhetoric becomes abstract‚ more explanatory‚ conceptual‚ or theoretical in tone. ⎯ Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes’s main argument center on the figure of the author and attempt to deconstruct the vision of the author
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interpretation - in their connotations than their denotations. Denotation is sometimes regarded as a digital code and connotation as an analogue code (Wilden 1987‚ 224). As Roland Barthes noted‚ Saussure’s model of the sign focused on denotation at the expense of connotation and it was left to subsequent theorists (notably Barthes himself) to offer an account of this important
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References: Barthes‚ R. (2009). Mythologies. London: Vintage Classics. 3-14 and 131-144 Craig‚ R.T. (1999). Communication theory as a field. Communication Theory‚ 9‚ 119-161. Griffin‚ E. (2011). A First Look at Communication Theory. 8th edition. New York: McGraw Hill
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