Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland
This study investigates death as an expression of worldview in Newfoundland tradition, and with particular attention given to its classical ballads. From the correlation of their people's life style and moral orientations (the pragmatic context), the views and values carried across genres (the...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/89622 2024-10-13T14:09:05+00:00 Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland Peere, Isabelle Buchan, David 1992-10-23 354 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/89622 en eng Memorial University of Newfoundland https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/89622 info:hdl:2268/89622 pragmatic context poetic context symbolic context talerole analysis Arts & humanities Arts & sciences humaines doctoral thesis http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06 info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis 1992 ftorbi 2024-09-27T07:01:41Z This study investigates death as an expression of worldview in Newfoundland tradition, and with particular attention given to its classical ballads. From the correlation of their people's life style and moral orientations (the pragmatic context), the views and values carried across genres (the symbolic context) and those expressed within the ballads (their poetic context), one claims to find articulated a coherent worldview upholding positive behaviour--in the face of death as in life. While this attitude is found expressed in traditional societies as well as in classical balladry, it pervades past and modern local tradition, and seems particularly appropriate to Newfoundland's maritime culture. The striking prominence of revenant types in the classical ballad repertoire and the exceptional courage of the heroine of the most popular "Sweet William's Ghost" (Ch 77) confirm local concern with bereavement and its successful resolution. This evidence for Newfoundland yields the proposition that, while the meanings carried in a cultural ballad corpus are essentially generic, they are actualized in dynamic relation with specific cultural contexts and worldviews. Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Newfoundland University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) |
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This study investigates death as an expression of worldview in Newfoundland tradition, and with particular attention given to its classical ballads. From the correlation of their people's life style and moral orientations (the pragmatic context), the views and values carried across genres (the symbolic context) and those expressed within the ballads (their poetic context), one claims to find articulated a coherent worldview upholding positive behaviour--in the face of death as in life. While this attitude is found expressed in traditional societies as well as in classical balladry, it pervades past and modern local tradition, and seems particularly appropriate to Newfoundland's maritime culture. The striking prominence of revenant types in the classical ballad repertoire and the exceptional courage of the heroine of the most popular "Sweet William's Ghost" (Ch 77) confirm local concern with bereavement and its successful resolution. This evidence for Newfoundland yields the proposition that, while the meanings carried in a cultural ballad corpus are essentially generic, they are actualized in dynamic relation with specific cultural contexts and worldviews. |
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland |
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland |
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland |
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland |
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland |
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death as an expression of worldview in a ballad culture: the evidence of newfoundland |
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Memorial University of Newfoundland |
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1992 |
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