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List of national founders – List of people credited with creating the state; Mythomoteur – Constitutive myth of an ethnic group; National myth – Inspiring narrative about a nation's past; Origin story – Plot device; Pourquoi story – Narrative that explains why something is the way it is, generally fabulous or mythical
Knopf published her narrative—The Voyage of the Norman D.—in 1928. Ford Madox Ford (né Hueffer) (1873–1939) published in 1892 two children's stories, The Brown Owl and The Feather, and a novel, The Shifting of the Fire. Anne Frank (1929–1945) wrote her diary for two-and-a-half years starting on her 13th birthday.
In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative [1] nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the listener of the fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation.
The myth might have arisen as a geographical, aetiological narrative in order to describe a spring near Glaphyrae, a town in Cilicia, and thus could be traced back to Parthenius's own Metamorphoses work. [5] Some doubts have been cast over this assertment, as it is most likely that that work was written in hexameters. [7]
4. ‘Jeremy’ by Pearl Jam. 1992 “Jeremy” was one of several hit songs to appear on Pearl Jam’s debut album, “Ten". It was based on the true story of high school student Jeremy Wade ...
Louisa Picquet (c. 1829, Columbia, South Carolina – August 11, 1896, New Richmond, Ohio) was an African American born into slavery. Her slave narrative, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life, was published in 1861.The narrative, written by abolitionist pastor Hiram Mattison, details Picquet's experiences with subjects like sexual violence, Christianity, and ...
The books are framed by two well known narratives: Book 3 opens with the Victory of Berenice. Composed in the style of a Pindaric Ode, the self-contained poem celebrates queen Berenice's victory in the Nemean Games. [13] Enveloped within the epinician narrative is an aetiology of the games themselves. [14]
The bodies of three children lie on a steel tray inside what appears to be a Gaza hospital morgue, one leg of their trousers pushed up to reveal writing in black ink on their skin.