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By way of introduction I shall present the background to the project together with an example of a female storyteller , who will be used as its point of departure . I got the idea of viewing Greek folktales from a female angle while ...
By way of introduction I shall present the background to the project together with an example of a female storyteller , who will be used as its point of departure . I got the idea of viewing Greek folktales from a female angle while ...
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Women very seldom had the courage to tell tales in public and would normally restrict themselves to telling shorter tales to the children at home.7 Like Adamantiou , he also published tales told by male and female narrators alike ...
Women very seldom had the courage to tell tales in public and would normally restrict themselves to telling shorter tales to the children at home.7 Like Adamantiou , he also published tales told by male and female narrators alike ...
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The tests that she passes are nothing like the killing of dragons or the fighting with giants that a male hero would undertake but activities normally associated with the female sphere . She has to deliver and nurse a child and to marry ...
The tests that she passes are nothing like the killing of dragons or the fighting with giants that a male hero would undertake but activities normally associated with the female sphere . She has to deliver and nurse a child and to marry ...
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problems of defining | 1 |
Women and gender roles in Modern Greek folktales | 21 |
a question of | 43 |
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| Title | Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issue 7 |
| Contributor | University of Cambridge. Modern Greek Section |
| Publisher | Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
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