TTLV: Điển cố, điển tích trong kho tàng ca dao

INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name: Hoang Thi Nga 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: December 20th 1986 4. Place of birth: Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province 5. Admission decision number: Decision No. 1355/2008/QD/XHNV-KH & SĐH of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University in October 24, 2008. 6. Changes in academic process: None 7. Official thesis title: Classic references and classic allusions in the Treasure of Vietnamese Folk Ballads 8. Major: Foklore Literature 9. Code: 60.22.36 10. Supervisors: Prof. Ph.D. Nguyen Xuan Kinh, Chief Editor of the magazine of Folk Culture Studies operated by Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, and concurrent professor at Department of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Hanoi. 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: Ballads is considered as the precious pearl in the treasure of Vietnamese folk literature. Researching about the language in Vietnamese folk ballads, it is important to study the art of using the classic references and classic allusions. In the collection Treasure of Vietnamese Folk Ballads, the ballads that employ classic reference and classic allusions have a big number of more than 1000 verses, and also have remarkable meanings. Choosing classic references and classic allusions as the targeted object of the thesis, we are aiming to describe and classify different kinds of classic references and allusions in the folk ballads; analyzing the content of the ballads that use these references or allusions; compare and conclude about the usage of these references and allusions in Chinese literature and in Vietnamese folk ballads; commenting on the impacts, the significance and the limitation of using these references and allusions in the Treasure of Vietnamese Folk Ballads; therefore pointing out the role of the Confucianists in making folk ballads, folk traditions, and the implication of the relation between folk literature and written literature as well. 12. Practical applicability: None 13. Further research directions: Classical References and Classical Allusions in Folk Ballads 14. Thesis-related publications: Initially building the dictionary and commenting on the Chinese classical references and classical allusions in the collection Treasure of Vietnamese Folk Ballads.