William Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 637787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Development of a questionnaire on teachers' knowledge of language as an epistemic tool
We report on the development of a new instrument for measuring teachers' knowledge of language as an epistemic tool in science classes. Language is essential for science learning, as all learning requires the use of language to constitute one's own ideas and to engage with others' ideas. Teachers with knowledge of language as an epistemic tool can recognize the ways that language allows students to generate and validate knowledge for themselves, …
The ugly face of the state: Nigerian security forces, human rights and the search for Boko Haram
This paper argues that the aggressive and gratuitously violent insurgency in northeastern Nigeria – Boko Haram – is the entirely understandable consequence of more than a half-century of misrule by what I call the parasitic and predatory Nigerian political class. Evidence of widespread human rights abuses including extortion, rape and theft comes from investigations by various international human rights organizations, international non-government…
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
Myth and One-Dimensionality
A striking difference between the folk-narrative genres of legend and folktale is how the human characters respond to supernatural, otherworldly, or uncanny beings such as ghosts, gods, dwarves, giants, trolls, talking animals, witches, and fairies. In legend the human actors respond with fear and awe, whereas in folktale they treat such beings as if they were ordinary and unremarkable. Since folktale humans treat all characters as belonging to a…
Boko Haram: Religious Radicalism and Insurrection in Northern Nigeria
This article is interested in shedding light on why a phenomenon such as Boko Haram came into existence and why it poses a threat to the very existence of the Nigerian state. The Boko Haram phenomenon, I argue, can only be understood as a reaction to more than a half century of corruption, venality, poverty, and abuse by the state predator class. My argument is that Boko Haram is the entirely logical consequence of more than five decades of the p…
Homer and the Folktale
In 1857 Wilhelm Grimm published an essay on the story of Poly-phemos and its analogues in international oral tradition, in which he concluded that both the Homeric and the later texts were essentially independent realizations of an international oral story. Like literary works, oral stories can be grouped according to genres. Folktales are traditional fictions, that is, entertaining, instructive, or consolatory tales in which the issue of histori…
Folktale
Poverty of Cause in Mythological Narrative
Many myths recount how a single trivial action (for example, a simple misunderstanding) had cosmic consequences for the human race (for example, the entry of death into the world). Such “poverty-of-cause” narratives are reflective neither of a supposed primitive mentality, as earlier theorists suggested, nor of a widespread folk-idea of the so-called Butterfly Effect. Rather, the disproportion arises from the confluence of two general characteris…
In Memoriam: Alan Dundes 1934-2005
reader and a prolific author, he published over thirty books (singleauthored, co-authored, and edited) and reportedly over 250 articles. Moreover, his scholarly range was broad, touching upon nearly every aspect of folklore studies. His influence on the profession has also been great, and his publications frequently cited. As a scholar and as a person he could generate strong feelings?mostly affection, but also exasperation and sometimes indignat…
Folktales and Romantic Novels
As lendas são consideradas os romances do povo e, inversamente, os romances populares seriam as lendas dos leitores comuns. Partindo de estudos formais dos contos orais e de romances populares modernos e ampliando o campo para incluir o romance antigo, este ensaio examina precisamente a concordância e a divergência entre lenda e romance. O estudo mostra que os contos de fada e os romances populares compartilham de algumas características, bem com…
Handbook of Classical Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)
Handbook of Classical Mythology
An introduction to the mythological world of the Greeks and the Romans, combined with a chronology of myths and a dictionary of key characters, objects, and events. Handbook of Classical Mythologyoffers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths. Written by a foremost mythologist, the book begins by exploring the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then provides a richly detaile…
The Epic Voice
Epic Voice. Edited by Alan D. Hodder and Robert E. Meagher. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. 157, introduction, illustrations, maps, notes, index. $54.95 cloth, $15.00 paper); How to Read an Oral Poem. By John Miles Foley. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp xviii + 256, prologue, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper); Myth: A New Symposium. Edited by Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen. (Bloomington…
Thesauros Neoellenikon Ainigmaton (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn
Book Review| October 01 2001 Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn, Chrysoula Chatzêtakê-Kapsômenou. William Hansen William Hansen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (454): 506. https://doi.org/10.2307/542066 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William Hansen; Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn…
Foam-Born Aphrodite and the Mythology of Transformation
Foam-Born Aphrodite and the Mythology of Transformation William Hansen In his account of the birth of Aphrodite (Theogony 176-200), Hesiod tells how Kronos castrated his father, Ouranos, and threw the severed genitals into the sea.1 The narrator envisions Kronos waiting in ambush upon the mainland (or, from another perspective, upon his mother Gaia) with a sickle in his hand. When Ouranos descends, stretching himself out over Gaia in order to eng…
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
Introduction Part One: Popular Fiction 1. Romantic Novel Xenophon of Ephesus, an Ephesian Tale Translated by Moses Hadas 2. Christian Novella Anonymous, the Acts of Paul and Thecla Translated by R. Mcl. Wilson 3. Wisdom Literature Anonymous, Secundus the Silent Philosopher Translated by Ben E. Perry 4. Comic Novel Pseudo-lucian, Lucius or the Ass Translated by Paul Turner 5. Comic Biography Anonymous, the Aesop Romance Translated by Lloyd W. Daly…
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
A lively anthology of ancient Greek popular literature.
The Architecture of Hesiodic Poetry
Perceived personal immunity: Beliefs about susceptibility to Aids
Subjects aged 18–25 were surveyed regarding their beliefs about susceptibility to getting AIDS. Males generally viewed their probability of contracting AIDS under conditions of risky sexual behavior to be significantly lower than did females. Subjects’ risk status was classified based on their recent self‐reported condom use and the number of different partners with whom they had sexual intercourse during the past year. High‐risk males perceived …
F. A. Wolf: Prolegomena to Homer (1795)
Fable Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Saxo Grammaticus & the Life of Hamlet
Boko Haram: Religious Radicalism and Insurrection in Northern Nigeria
This article is interested in shedding light on why a phenomenon such as Boko Haram came into existence and why it poses a threat to the very existence of the Nigerian state. The Boko Haram phenomenon, I argue, can only be understood as a reaction to more than a half century of corruption, venality, poverty, and abuse by the state predator class. My argument is that Boko Haram is the entirely logical consequence of more than five decades of the p…
Perceived personal immunity: Beliefs about susceptibility to Aids
Subjects aged 18–25 were surveyed regarding their beliefs about susceptibility to getting AIDS. Males generally viewed their probability of contracting AIDS under conditions of risky sexual behavior to be significantly lower than did females. Subjects’ risk status was classified based on their recent self‐reported condom use and the number of different partners with whom they had sexual intercourse during the past year. High‐risk males perceived …
Aid or Imperialism? West Germany in Sub-Saharan Africa
What is the precise nature of the relationship between the so-called Third World and the industrialised West? While a question of this sort was much more easily answered in the era of direct colonial control over vast non-European regions, there is much debate concerning the symmetry of economic and political relationships in the postindependence period. In fact, to a considerable number of observers, it is asymmetry which characterises the ties …
Poverty of Cause in Mythological Narrative
Many myths recount how a single trivial action (for example, a simple misunderstanding) had cosmic consequences for the human race (for example, the entry of death into the world). Such “poverty-of-cause” narratives are reflective neither of a supposed primitive mentality, as earlier theorists suggested, nor of a widespread folk-idea of the so-called Butterfly Effect. Rather, the disproportion arises from the confluence of two general characteris…
Handbook of Classical Mythology
An introduction to the mythological world of the Greeks and the Romans, combined with a chronology of myths and a dictionary of key characters, objects, and events. Handbook of Classical Mythologyoffers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths. Written by a foremost mythologist, the book begins by exploring the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then provides a richly detaile…
Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet: A Translation, History, and Commentary
takes the trouble to construct a best commonwealth, repeatedly hints that he is proud of the construction, and yet dissociates himself from [it] by putting its description into the mouth of Hythloday, by putting disavowals of it into his own mouth, and by peppering the description with mocking names. More has .. performed the best-commonwealth exercise with unprecedented sophistication. His results . . . embody a profound criticism of the elitist…
Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet: A Translation, History, and Commentary
takes the trouble to construct a best commonwealth, repeatedly hints that he is proud of the construction, and yet dissociates himself from [it] by putting its description into the mouth of Hythloday, by putting disavowals of it into his own mouth, and by peppering the description with mocking names. More has .. performed the best-commonwealth exercise with unprecedented sophistication. His results . . . embody a profound criticism of the elitist…
The Conference Sequence: Patterned Narration and Narrative Inconsistency in the Odyssey
"An Oral Source for the "Menaechmi
Homer and the Oral Tradition
Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet
Aid or Imperialism? West Germany in Sub-Saharan Africa
What is the precise nature of the relationship between the so-called Third World and the industrialised West? While a question of this sort was much more easily answered in the era of direct colonial control over vast non-European regions, there is much debate concerning the symmetry of economic and political relationships in the postindependence period. In fact, to a considerable number of observers, it is asymmetry which characterises the ties …
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Saxo Grammaticus & the Life of Hamlet
Fable Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography
F. A. Wolf: Prolegomena to Homer (1795)
Perceived personal immunity: Beliefs about susceptibility to Aids
Subjects aged 18–25 were surveyed regarding their beliefs about susceptibility to getting AIDS. Males generally viewed their probability of contracting AIDS under conditions of risky sexual behavior to be significantly lower than did females. Subjects’ risk status was classified based on their recent self‐reported condom use and the number of different partners with whom they had sexual intercourse during the past year. High‐risk males perceived …
The Architecture of Hesiodic Poetry
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
A lively anthology of ancient Greek popular literature.
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
Introduction Part One: Popular Fiction 1. Romantic Novel Xenophon of Ephesus, an Ephesian Tale Translated by Moses Hadas 2. Christian Novella Anonymous, the Acts of Paul and Thecla Translated by R. Mcl. Wilson 3. Wisdom Literature Anonymous, Secundus the Silent Philosopher Translated by Ben E. Perry 4. Comic Novel Pseudo-lucian, Lucius or the Ass Translated by Paul Turner 5. Comic Biography Anonymous, the Aesop Romance Translated by Lloyd W. Daly…
Foam-Born Aphrodite and the Mythology of Transformation
Foam-Born Aphrodite and the Mythology of Transformation William Hansen In his account of the birth of Aphrodite (Theogony 176-200), Hesiod tells how Kronos castrated his father, Ouranos, and threw the severed genitals into the sea.1 The narrator envisions Kronos waiting in ambush upon the mainland (or, from another perspective, upon his mother Gaia) with a sickle in his hand. When Ouranos descends, stretching himself out over Gaia in order to eng…
Thesauros Neoellenikon Ainigmaton (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn
Book Review| October 01 2001 Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn, Chrysoula Chatzêtakê-Kapsômenou. William Hansen William Hansen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (454): 506. https://doi.org/10.2307/542066 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William Hansen; Thêsauros Neoellênikôn Ainigmatôn…
The Epic Voice
Epic Voice. Edited by Alan D. Hodder and Robert E. Meagher. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. 157, introduction, illustrations, maps, notes, index. $54.95 cloth, $15.00 paper); How to Read an Oral Poem. By John Miles Foley. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp xviii + 256, prologue, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper); Myth: A New Symposium. Edited by Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen. (Bloomington…
Handbook of Classical Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)
Handbook of Classical Mythology
An introduction to the mythological world of the Greeks and the Romans, combined with a chronology of myths and a dictionary of key characters, objects, and events. Handbook of Classical Mythologyoffers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths. Written by a foremost mythologist, the book begins by exploring the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then provides a richly detaile…
In Memoriam: Alan Dundes 1934-2005
reader and a prolific author, he published over thirty books (singleauthored, co-authored, and edited) and reportedly over 250 articles. Moreover, his scholarly range was broad, touching upon nearly every aspect of folklore studies. His influence on the profession has also been great, and his publications frequently cited. As a scholar and as a person he could generate strong feelings?mostly affection, but also exasperation and sometimes indignat…
Folktales and Romantic Novels
As lendas são consideradas os romances do povo e, inversamente, os romances populares seriam as lendas dos leitores comuns. Partindo de estudos formais dos contos orais e de romances populares modernos e ampliando o campo para incluir o romance antigo, este ensaio examina precisamente a concordância e a divergência entre lenda e romance. O estudo mostra que os contos de fada e os romances populares compartilham de algumas características, bem com…
Poverty of Cause in Mythological Narrative
Many myths recount how a single trivial action (for example, a simple misunderstanding) had cosmic consequences for the human race (for example, the entry of death into the world). Such “poverty-of-cause” narratives are reflective neither of a supposed primitive mentality, as earlier theorists suggested, nor of a widespread folk-idea of the so-called Butterfly Effect. Rather, the disproportion arises from the confluence of two general characteris…
Homer and the Folktale
In 1857 Wilhelm Grimm published an essay on the story of Poly-phemos and its analogues in international oral tradition, in which he concluded that both the Homeric and the later texts were essentially independent realizations of an international oral story. Like literary works, oral stories can be grouped according to genres. Folktales are traditional fictions, that is, entertaining, instructive, or consolatory tales in which the issue of histori…
Folktale
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