Animals as Real Animals or Animals as Absent Referents? A
comparative Study of Folk English and Persian Lullabies

k 2022

Animals as Real Animals or Animals as Absent Referents? A comparative Study of Folk English and Persian Lullabies

RASTI, Malikeh

Základní údaje

Originální název

Animals as Real Animals or Animals as Absent Referents? A comparative Study of Folk English and Persian Lullabies

Autoři

RASTI, Malikeh

Vydání

Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik 13-16 June 2022, 2022

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Island

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/re22/paper/66948

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Animal studies; Absent referent; English lullabies; Persian lullabies; Folk Literature

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 22. 1. 2023 17:54, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

“It must be remembered that the dance was not the only primitive activity, the rhythm of which evoked that of song. The rocking of the cradle was another” (Opie 19) Being highly cultural, lullabies-genesis of all songs- are a significant genre of Folk Literature in almost every nation. Assuming the age of lullabies to be at least 4000 years, they include various themes from which this article is supposed to study the themes of animals (as well as birds and insects) in selected folk English and Persian lullabies. Furthermore, the present paper discusses how the concept of animals is represented in the lullabies regarding the term “absent referent”-“a subject whose identity becomes lost in a one-sided metaphorical comparison meant to illustrate the condition of another” (De Angelis 232)- coined by the feminist literary theorist, Carol J. Adams presented in her book, The Sexual Politics of Meat. While specifically comparing and contrasting how these two culturally and linguistically different languages have employed animals, this article identifies the animality of animals in these folk songs to distinguish literary or folk animals from real ones. Studying some showcases of folk English and Persian lullabies, this article argues to what extent English and Persian lullaby singers not only have not seen animals as the objects representing the human traits and features, but also have been aware of their existence as real animals. Hereby, the lullaby singer is acting as a camera or a reporter that records and tells of the life of animals. Nevertheless, they have also employed animals in some lullabies as the absent referents to nurture the infants depicting some animals that have metamorphosed into human beings who can talk, sleep and live as they do.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1478/2021, interní kód MU

Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II

Citovat

RASTI, Malikeh. Animals as Real Animals or Animals as Absent Referents? A comparative Study of Folk English and Persian Lullabies. In Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik 13-16 June 2022. 2022.

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RASTI, Malikeh. Animals as Real Animals or Animals as Absent Referents? A comparative Study of Folk English and Persian Lullabies. In \textit{Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik 13-16 June 2022}. 2022.

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