Outlandish Deeds is a narrative construct in folklore studies that comprises exaggerated, implausible actions attributed to larger-than-life characters within tall tales, distinguished by their deliberate departure from realistic human capabilities to serve comic or emphatic functions in oral tradition.
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Cities of words: pedagogical letters on a register of the moral life
Choice Reviews Online · 2004 · 384 citations
Humanities, Literature, Philosophy +16
The man-leopard murders: history and society in colonial Nigeria
Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 53 citations
Hysteria, Play-acting and Courage
David Taylor · The British Journal of Psychiatry · 1986 · 48 citations
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University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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University of Reading
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University of Manchester
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Middlebury College
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GLA University
Mathura, India
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