Information about the thesis "The Problem of Describing Human Appearance in the Collection of Vietnamese Folk Songs" by graduate student Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, majoring in Folklore Literature.1. Student's Full Name: Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of Birth: September 22, 1969 4. Place of Birth: Tan Yen – Bac Giang 5. Decision No. 1528 - Date: October 14, 2009, issued by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis Title: The Problem of Describing Human Appearance in the Vietnamese Folk Song Treasury 8. Specialization: Folklore Literature. Code: 60220240 9. Scientific Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Kinh – Institute of Folklore Culture. 10. Summary of the thesis results: - The thesis examines the book "Treasury of Vietnamese Folk Songs," which contains 12,487 verses, of which 749 describe human physical appearance (including the appearance of women, men, and gender-neutral individuals). The author has specifically noted the origins of these verses, hoping to facilitate easier reference for future research. - The thesis delves into how human physical appearance is described in folk songs. From this, it compares the description of human physical appearance in folk songs with the lyrical poetry of written literature from the 15th century to before the August Revolution of 1945.
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: September 22 - 1969 4. Place of birth: Tan Yen - Bac Giang 5. Admission decision number: 1528 Dated 14 - October - 2009 of the Rector of University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University Hanoi. 6. The changes in training process: No 7. Offical thesis title: Describing the human's appearance in Vietnamese Folk Songs Treasure 8. Major: Folk Literature Code: 60220240 9. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Kinh – The Director of Folk Culture Institute 10. Summary of the findings of the thesis: - The thesis surveys the set of books “Vietnamese Folk songs Treasure”, among 12,487 singing words, there are 749 words describing the human's appearance. (Women's appearance, men's appearance and neuter's appearance). The writer has noted the origin of singing words in concrete, hoping this will help the researchers be easy in searching. - The thesis focuses on understanding how the human's appearance is described in folk songs. From that comparing the description of human's appearance in Folk songs and lyrical poems of the literature from the 15th Century to the time before the August Revolution in 1945.
