A new historicist reading of selected children’s nursery Rhymes
Other Title(s)
قراءة لمختارات من أناشيد الأطفال من منظور التاريخية الجديدة
Author
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa
Source
[Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research]
Issue
Vol. 2021, Issue 32، ج. 7 (31 Oct. 2021), pp.1573-1602, 30 p.
Publisher
Cairo University Faculty of Arts-Khartoum Branch
Publication Date
2021-10-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
30
Main Subjects
Sociology and Anthropology and Social Work
Topics
Abstract EN
The aim of this study is to provide a New Historicist reading of British children's nursery rhymes.
The paper aims at investigating the different factors that went into the making up of such rhymes.
These include the personal, the social, the political, the religious and the economic aspects underlying selected nursery rhymes side by side with the literary value of texts of the rhymes themselves.
The poems selected for study will be investigated through the lenses of New Historicism because of the importance the latter gives to the text's backgrounds.
The paper tries to relocate the rhymes properly on the map of English literature.
“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”, “Jack Sprat”, “When Adam Delved”, “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” and “Three Blind Mice” are among the poems discussed in this study.
One of the important conclusions of this study is that many nursery rhymes were originally commoners' verses, composed to address and express the common people's cares and worries.
The apparent simplicity and naivety of the poems are guises under which commoners concealed their ideas.
This made the poems easy to memorise since the majority of the people were illiterate.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa. 2021. A new historicist reading of selected children’s nursery Rhymes. [Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research]،Vol. 2021, no. 32، ج. 7, pp.1573-1602.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1306543
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa. A new historicist reading of selected children’s nursery Rhymes. [Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research] No. 32, ج. 7 (2021), pp.1573-1602.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1306543
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa. A new historicist reading of selected children’s nursery Rhymes. [Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research]. 2021. Vol. 2021, no. 32، ج. 7, pp.1573-1602.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1306543
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
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Record ID
BIM-1306543