fairy tales are stories in which metaphysical, paranormal and mysterious events take place and there is no exact time and place; everything is spiritual. the lorestanian story of “daughter of daal” is a tale of the “mythical birth” of a girl from an egg and her being raised by daal (phoenix) in the cave of a caucasus-like mountain. daughter of daal is snared by a hireling hellcat’s deceit, but ...

Home-based care volunteer (HBCV) identity and how it is shaped was the main focus of the study. Fifteen HBCVs were interviewed about their work and personal life stories and then interviewed reflectively using a narrative interviewing style. Specific attention was paid to contextual meta-narratives and social field narratives in understanding the women's stories. Findings indicate that social f...

the symbolic cultural order becomes manifest through language in the case of texts and narratives and through images in the case of art. knowledge of the elements that compose the symbolic order is an essential analytical tool, above all for comparative studies of art, literature and religion. in this way, many of the symbolic references that exist in each culture can be illuminated by examples...

Narratives are powerful because of their impact on our emotional experiences. Recent years have witnessed significant advances in affective computing and intelligent interaction, presenting a broad range of opportunities for enhancing the design, implementation, and adaptivity of interactive narratives. This paper presents preliminary work examining story-centric games and interactive narrative...

Yuri Pines – the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prepared for the SSEC-AAS conference, Chicago, March 2009 The Rong Cheng shi is one of the largest and relatively well preserved texts from the Shanghai Museum collection of Chu state bamboo manuscripts. This previously unknown text is the only recently unearthed work that presents a systematic account of the earliest stages of China's history, be...

The term both gender and biological sex play a significant role in determining human behaviour. foundation for presenting the underlying power structures that have aggressively preserved binary was laid by shift theoretical viewpoint. Similarly, postmodern feminist queer theorists' lenses questioned as social construction rather than natural manifestation of sex. Gender nonconformity transgress...

Mythological and folkloric heritages of nations have often been credited with exclusively distinct identities within the realms of literary criticism. Arguing that in a nation like Iran, the firmly visible borders that have conventionally defined mythology in disparity from folklore have been disturbed, this paper considers these two entities as intertwined and their accentuated differe...

This article describes a Narrative Engagement Framework (NEF) for guiding communication-based prevention efforts. This framework suggests that personal narratives have distinctive capabilities in prevention. The article discusses the concept of narrative, links narrative to prevention, and discusses the central role of youth in developing narrative interventions. As illustration, the authors de...